Tax brackets mainly prevent those who would like to become richer from doing so. Instead of making a sliding scale that continuously increases, there are specific demarcations that prevent you from wanting to make more than a certain amount. Once you make enough of course, this stops being an issue. And once you have enough to hire an accountant that has no qualms with exploiting every loophole in the tax system to help you increase the amount of money you take home each year, then you may be counted among the rich and powerful that may actually have enough influence on how laws get written. The richest of the rich don't care about tax brackets. Besides, why do you care how much money is being taken out of your paycheck if you can influence where that money goes?
I do agree that there are some laws that seem as though they favor the middle class, but a good law can be made a horrible one with one or two vague loopholes, and these are what continue to make government the tool of the rich and powerful. The farther away the issue is from the more average middle class, the less subtle the loopholes become.
How the hell is this flamebait? It has a link to The Onion fer crissakes. This is supposed to be FUNNY. Shame I used up my last mod points earlier today...
Which would also imply that the width of the event horizon would be come rather wide, no? If it's a true singularity, wouldn't it have to be infinitely wide?
Actually, assuming there is a good way to predict earthquakes with enough data, we might be able to get more accurate with earthquakes than the weather.
The basic problem with the weather is that we just can't collect enough data to actually form a solid prediction for more than a few days; there are just too many unknowns. But with earthquakes, we might be able to correlate satellite data with seismic events and be able to see where the next "slip" of the tectonics might be...
Anybody else see that as the main reason this is running Linux instead of Irix? There's already a lot of development towards that that they can take advantage of. It just makes more sense then porting over another OS on your own.
You know, I hate to nitpick your nitpick, but either way should be about as fast as the other since wq is one stroke if the ring and pinky move at almost the same time and that they are slightly more accessible than the x is (home row is easier than top row is easier than bottom row rule).
All this seems unnecessarily complicated. Why not just a flat copyright term which can be transfered to any individual or corporation? Is there a reason a copyright should become less valuable toward the end of a person's life? Let it act like property; the copyright passes to the next of kin. Moreover, except for the death clause, I don't see any real difference between corporate and private ownership of a copyright, unless you just decide that you don't like corporations.
In a perfect world, that seems reasonable. When corporations start pushing through laws that extend their own copyrights, it becomes an issue. They have too much power to be trusted with ownership. In my mind, it's kinda the same thing as socialism, at least on a more focused scale.
My other beef is that if a corporation (or any body that didn't orginate the work) has the copyright on something that you contributed too, you yourself lose the rights you should have to that work. See any arguments between bands and their labels for reasons why this is a bad thing.
Here's some benchmarks of a 666 MHz Itanium on x86 code. About as good as a Pentium 100. Not exactly a compelling reason to buy a thousand dollar chip...
Remember innovation is 99% persperation, and 1% insperation. Looks like they are focusing on the 1%, and assuming that the rest will take care of itself.
That assumes you don't have a way to implement something outside of the physical world. Computer modeling, for some things, can work very well in the idea forming stages of a project. That Edison quote is refuted very well by Tesla who was (reportedly) able to completely visualize an invention before ever putting two components together. Now that we have computers to do that kind of thing for us we can come up with very reasonable models
I'll have to concede on other parts of the post though. A good idea does not translate into a good implementation (substandard parts, etc.) or even a means for creating an implentation. But, if the idea is good enough to be used, I would think that there would be a pretty good chance of someone using it.
The basic problem (IMHO) is that anything digital is trivial to duplicate. The CBPUNRECOGNIZABLEACRONYMA, in its essence, tried to change that. The question is not one of alternatives; it is about should this even be done. My answer is simply: no. We should not cripple one industry to benefit another.
"Ever notice how stories on Yahoo, ZDNet, MSNBC and others mention things, but really never provide links to anything that they are talking about?"
Well, no, not really. I don't know about ZDNet or MSNBC (don't read 'em enough to say...) but every story on Yahoo has a bunch of links to other sites that don't have a domain ending in yahoo.com .
It depends on the bottleneck, but it might help get rid of dropped frames when things get exceptionally busy. Console games are most definitely not immune to dropped frames, especially once you get 4 players with their own screens in a 3D shooter...
Most of the incompatibility problems with AMD systems can be traced to VIA's south bridge chip (IOW, the chip that handles the PCI bus and most other peripherals). It was included with most AMD boards a while ago, but fortunately these problems should be gone when VIA updates the chip in the KT266A chipset. The SiS 735 as well as (IIRC) a few AMD 760 boards are about the only ones I can think of that are out in quantity right now. The KT266A and the Nforce are coming out pretty quickly though.
It's the sources of that media. Who controls these thousands of images that flash by us every day? A thousand different companies, each with their own take on it? No, it's a handful of conglomerates, each with their own agenda. Once they agree on what they want to show as facts, they become engrained in the minds of everyone in this country who still pays attention to this crap. There's an overwhelming majority of people who do this and this makes the problem worse.
I agree that the human mind needs to filter out crap. But when there's nothing else to compare it to, we're given the choice between crap or nothing; most people are going to choose crap because of some overwhelming need to be "informed".
1) You're assuming that the software is good enough to catch people. Read other comments in this thread, theregister.co.uk, or the fact that the best software a year ago couldn't identify someone correctly one in three times, and that doesn't even count false positives.
2) Just because there is a lot of work for cops doesn't mean that they're all ethical. Or that their superiors are ethical. One cop may decide to take a break from his work by zooming in on some random person. Another might decide to find someone with a record who looks vaguely like the person he's looking for and say he did it. Either way the system is ripe for abuse by the people with the power and the motives.
Don't give up your privacy for bad tech that can be abused.
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Tax brackets mainly prevent those who would like to become richer from doing so. Instead of making a sliding scale that continuously increases, there are specific demarcations that prevent you from wanting to make more than a certain amount. Once you make enough of course, this stops being an issue. And once you have enough to hire an accountant that has no qualms with exploiting every loophole in the tax system to help you increase the amount of money you take home each year, then you may be counted among the rich and powerful that may actually have enough influence on how laws get written. The richest of the rich don't care about tax brackets. Besides, why do you care how much money is being taken out of your paycheck if you can influence where that money goes?
I do agree that there are some laws that seem as though they favor the middle class, but a good law can be made a horrible one with one or two vague loopholes, and these are what continue to make government the tool of the rich and powerful. The farther away the issue is from the more average middle class, the less subtle the loopholes become.
How the hell is this flamebait? It has a link to The Onion fer crissakes. This is supposed to be FUNNY. Shame I used up my last mod points earlier today...
Bah. Just what we need; a horde of moderators wasting points on Offensive/Funny moderations. I can see it now:
Moderation Totals: Funny=238, Offensive=225, Overrated=5, Flamebait=2, Total=470.
Yeesh. We'd create a whole new kind of troll...
Perhaps a better analogy would be roads without street/highway signs?
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Just a friendly suggestion...
I don't know about all the theory (or IANAA if you prefer) but the gravity is strong enough to break down neutrons, so it might be a little rough.....
Which would also imply that the width of the event horizon would be come rather wide, no? If it's a true singularity, wouldn't it have to be infinitely wide?
And besides, you'd piss off every astrologer in existence...
Actually, assuming there is a good way to predict earthquakes with enough data, we might be able to get more accurate with earthquakes than the weather.
The basic problem with the weather is that we just can't collect enough data to actually form a solid prediction for more than a few days; there are just too many unknowns. But with earthquakes, we might be able to correlate satellite data with seismic events and be able to see where the next "slip" of the tectonics might be...
Check out the reviews of the 2400/2600+. A lot will actually overclock to ~2.5 GHz now. They've got headroom again. Get over it.
Anybody else see that as the main reason this is running Linux instead of Irix? There's already a lot of development towards that that they can take advantage of. It just makes more sense then porting over another OS on your own.
My fifth of a dime...
Wouldn't it be great if the company that started the worst DMCA trial yet be the company that got it struck down?
You know, I hate to nitpick your nitpick, but either way should be about as fast as the other since wq is one stroke if the ring and pinky move at almost the same time and that they are slightly more accessible than the x is (home row is easier than top row is easier than bottom row rule).
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Good call. I think they do recognize that though, it was probably a motivating factor in getting involved in the chipset business...
In a perfect world, that seems reasonable. When corporations start pushing through laws that extend their own copyrights, it becomes an issue. They have too much power to be trusted with ownership. In my mind, it's kinda the same thing as socialism, at least on a more focused scale.
My other beef is that if a corporation (or any body that didn't orginate the work) has the copyright on something that you contributed too, you yourself lose the rights you should have to that work. See any arguments between bands and their labels for reasons why this is a bad thing.
Here's some benchmarks of a 666 MHz Itanium on x86 code. About as good as a Pentium 100. Not exactly a compelling reason to buy a thousand dollar chip...
That assumes you don't have a way to implement something outside of the physical world. Computer modeling, for some things, can work very well in the idea forming stages of a project. That Edison quote is refuted very well by Tesla who was (reportedly) able to completely visualize an invention before ever putting two components together. Now that we have computers to do that kind of thing for us we can come up with very reasonable models
I'll have to concede on other parts of the post though. A good idea does not translate into a good implementation (substandard parts, etc.) or even a means for creating an implentation. But, if the idea is good enough to be used, I would think that there would be a pretty good chance of someone using it.
The basic problem (IMHO) is that anything digital is trivial to duplicate. The CBPUNRECOGNIZABLEACRONYMA, in its essence, tried to change that. The question is not one of alternatives; it is about should this even be done. My answer is simply: no. We should not cripple one industry to benefit another.
Apparently, I also forgot how to use the Preview button. What I meant to say is that NZ$11 is US$4.78. Yeesh...
Oh yeah, and I got this from http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u
Just in case you're like me and don't know how much that is in US Dollars;
"Ever notice how stories on Yahoo, ZDNet, MSNBC and others mention things, but really never provide links to anything that they are talking about?"
Well, no, not really. I don't know about ZDNet or MSNBC (don't read 'em enough to say...) but every story on Yahoo has a bunch of links to other sites that don't have a domain ending in yahoo.com .
It depends on the bottleneck, but it might help get rid of dropped frames when things get exceptionally busy. Console games are most definitely not immune to dropped frames, especially once you get 4 players with their own screens in a 3D shooter...
Most of the incompatibility problems with AMD systems can be traced to VIA's south bridge chip (IOW, the chip that handles the PCI bus and most other peripherals). It was included with most AMD boards a while ago, but fortunately these problems should be gone when VIA updates the chip in the KT266A chipset. The SiS 735 as well as (IIRC) a few AMD 760 boards are about the only ones I can think of that are out in quantity right now. The KT266A and the Nforce are coming out pretty quickly though.
> "60% the cost, 90% the performance"
That's not too far off. Change it to "60% the cost, 120% the performance" and it'd be a bit more accurate...
It's the sources of that media. Who controls these thousands of images that flash by us every day? A thousand different companies, each with their own take on it? No, it's a handful of conglomerates, each with their own agenda. Once they agree on what they want to show as facts, they become engrained in the minds of everyone in this country who still pays attention to this crap. There's an overwhelming majority of people who do this and this makes the problem worse.
I agree that the human mind needs to filter out crap. But when there's nothing else to compare it to, we're given the choice between crap or nothing; most people are going to choose crap because of some overwhelming need to be "informed".
Two big counterpoints to your argument:
1) You're assuming that the software is good enough to catch people. Read other comments in this thread, theregister.co.uk, or the fact that the best software a year ago couldn't identify someone correctly one in three times, and that doesn't even count false positives.
2) Just because there is a lot of work for cops doesn't mean that they're all ethical. Or that their superiors are ethical. One cop may decide to take a break from his work by zooming in on some random person. Another might decide to find someone with a record who looks vaguely like the person he's looking for and say he did it. Either way the system is ripe for abuse by the people with the power and the motives.
Don't give up your privacy for bad tech that can be abused.
-j