So median income is falling in terms of actual purchasing power, just not quite that fast.
Yes; it fell sharply 2007-2008 and again 2009-2010, though the latter may be in part an artifact of switching to the 2010 Census. From 2010 to 2012 it fell slowly in real terms though it rose slowly in nominal terms. The first time it got as high as it was in 2012 was 1989.
Funny that you believe you should have to pay a bank money, just for the "privilege" of spending money. You already earned your pay, but you think you should pay a bank so that you can spend it? This is exactly what I was referring to about people not understanding the scam.
Apparently you've failed to understand "credit and loans". That's when I spend the bank's money, and pay them back later.
Hell, I heard the other day that in the last ten years the US median household income has fallen from ~$80k to ~$50k. That's insane!
And false. US median income in 2012 was $51,017. US median income in 2002 was $42,409 ($54,127 in 2012 dollars). Peak median income since 1975 was 1999, ar $40,696 ($56,080 in 2012 dollars).
GC is not about forgetting to free memory. It's about higher level abstraction removing the need for the programmer to do the bookkeeping that the machine can do.
Abstractions leak. GC tends to leak in a way that can fixed mostly by doing the same sort of bookkeeping you'd do in an explicit allocation model.
Why don't we still program in assembler?
Because computers have gotten so complex that good compilers can beat good hand-assembled code nearly every time.
I suspect that this conversation is a lost cause; but it's worth pointing out that that is one of the reasons why public health types get twitchy about prescription opiates.
Such public health types need to be introduced personally to some major trauma -- then made to follow their own advice about skipping the opiates during recovery.
Actually there probably are some, people who got addicted to prescription opiates they started using for medical reasons, and switched to heroin because it's cheaper and because they can't get enough legally and weren't getting good medical support for getting out of the addiction.
So what you're saying is prescription opiates are a gateway drug for heroin?
Right in TFS: "Indeed, it is more likely that these large edge providers would seek to extract payment from ISPs for delivery of video over last-mile networks."
But you don't have mile-long runs between towers. Induce enough voltage and you'll arc across the insulators to the support structure and ground the surge that way. There's also arc-horns and other things meant to handle breakdown in a more controlled fashion than arcing across the insulator itself.
Every time some man acts like an ass to some woman, it counters 10 men being perfectly civil. If you don't like it, try to keep your bro's in line. It turns out they're assholes, and no one likes assholes.
It turns out I neither have power, authority, or even influence over those "bros". So, you can take your collective guilt elsewhere; I'm not buying.
I know, Occam's Razor would explain this by simply having all airline employees be psychic, but in fact, when you call and talk to someone, they note what you talked about, then when you call and talk to an entirely different person who magically knows what you talked about before, they're just reading that note. OMG!
I've never actually had this experience when dealing with an airline; I typically have to explain the situation to each employee, often more than once.
I find it also exceptionally hilarious that this attack is coming from the Tea Party, considering that they are nominally libertarian. Buffet, Gates, and Adelson ARE their masters of the universe - at least, they would be, if the Tea Party or the libertarians had any sort of consistency in their beliefs. Instead, this diatribe exposes them for what they really are: run of the mill politicians who are just more xenophobic and nativist than the other politicians.
The idea that the Tea Party is libertarian is silly. The idea that Warren Buffett is libertarian is ludicrous. He's the guy who is well known for claiming he doesn't pay enough in taxes.
At which point they bring a foreign worker over and train them in J2EE and Joe Bob's Serialization Framework
Nope. They bring a foreign worker over who already has, on paper, the required (and often impossible) experience in J2EE and Joe Bob's Serialization Framework. The foreign worker then fakes it. And that's assuming the job ad wasn't just a phony to substantiate a green card application for the foreign worker already in that position.
The problem with UI design is it is subjective, it depends heavily on who your target user is. The "good designers" of the past were catering to a particular type of user who no longer makes up the majority of customers. They were indeed good at what they did, but the market has shifted and thus a new crop of designers are trying to work out what serves the majority of user now well.
This is the UI design version of "the lurkers support me in email". The new crop of designers is enamoured with particular design principles which are simply bad. Pretty much every technically sophisticated user hates them, and many of us can explain in detail exactly why they suck. So the designers claim they're designing for a new kind of user who isn't technically sophisticated in order to silence their critics. Management is perfectly willing to buy this line of bull... at least until the bad design hits the regular users who may not know exactly what is wrong, but they DO know it is wrong, and out come the torches and pitchforks.
The good designers of the past were _already designing_ for the same sort of user the new designers claim to be designing for; that's been the case since about 1984. This new user who likes the new stuff... basically doesn't exist.
"You must be stupid if you believe that" is not a logical fallacy. "You are stupid, therefore what you believe is false" is a logical fallacy (ad hominem). "People who believe things that are obviously false are stupid. That is obviously false and you believe it, therefore you must be stupid" is valid, assuming you accept the premises.
"ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source"... where they encounter Richard "THAT'S FREE SOFTWARE TO YOU" Stallman , Linus Torvalds, and Theo De Raadt and vow never to touch a computer again.
In the future, they will have sensors that optimize the flush cycle, and use a pressurized system to automatically clear clogs, while using far less water per flush. They will use electrically actuated valves...
And you think all that will make toilets MORE reliable? Haha. Most problems with the mechanical parts of toilets result from wear to the valves, wear to the flapper, and debris clogging the valves. None of that is going to be improved by adding all the doodads you suggest; they're just new things to break.
And of course most of the problems with toilets aren't in the mechanical parts at all, they're just caused by people putting stuff in it that shouldn't be flushed. None of your doodads are going to help that either.
Wait, the gospel has changed from the old story about the horrible Westerners using 99% of the resources and producing 150% of the pollution by oppressing the poverty-stricken but frugal and in-tune with nature third-worlders? When did this happen?
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Yes; it fell sharply 2007-2008 and again 2009-2010, though the latter may be in part an artifact of switching to the 2010 Census. From 2010 to 2012 it fell slowly in real terms though it rose slowly in nominal terms. The first time it got as high as it was in 2012 was 1989.
Apparently you've failed to understand "credit and loans". That's when I spend the bank's money, and pay them back later.
And false. US median income in 2012 was $51,017. US median income in 2002 was $42,409 ($54,127 in 2012 dollars). Peak median income since 1975 was 1999, ar $40,696 ($56,080 in 2012 dollars).
Abstractions leak. GC tends to leak in a way that can fixed mostly by doing the same sort of bookkeeping you'd do in an explicit allocation model.
Because computers have gotten so complex that good compilers can beat good hand-assembled code nearly every time.
My water softener is electromechanical. And the designer looks down on you all.
Such public health types need to be introduced personally to some major trauma -- then made to follow their own advice about skipping the opiates during recovery.
So what you're saying is prescription opiates are a gateway drug for heroin?
Right in TFS: "Indeed, it is more likely that these large edge providers would seek to extract payment from ISPs for delivery of video over last-mile networks."
But you don't have mile-long runs between towers. Induce enough voltage and you'll arc across the insulators to the support structure and ground the surge that way. There's also arc-horns and other things meant to handle breakdown in a more controlled fashion than arcing across the insulator itself.
-1, confusing Frankenstein and his monster.
Your link fails to support your claim, so there's nothing to trump.
AMERICAN male nerds don't. That particular insult is less taboo in other English-speaking countries.
Congratulations, you've just been push-polled. Those tests aren't built to discover bias, they're built to convince you that you are biased.
It turns out I neither have power, authority, or even influence over those "bros". So, you can take your collective guilt elsewhere; I'm not buying.
Really? Did they stop threatening male players with buggery?
I've never actually had this experience when dealing with an airline; I typically have to explain the situation to each employee, often more than once.
The idea that the Tea Party is libertarian is silly. The idea that Warren Buffett is libertarian is ludicrous. He's the guy who is well known for claiming he doesn't pay enough in taxes.
He is. Main Street isn't the audience; Wall Street loves downsizing.
Nope. They bring a foreign worker over who already has, on paper, the required (and often impossible) experience in J2EE and Joe Bob's Serialization Framework. The foreign worker then fakes it. And that's assuming the job ad wasn't just a phony to substantiate a green card application for the foreign worker already in that position.
This is the UI design version of "the lurkers support me in email". The new crop of designers is enamoured with particular design principles which are simply bad. Pretty much every technically sophisticated user hates them, and many of us can explain in detail exactly why they suck. So the designers claim they're designing for a new kind of user who isn't technically sophisticated in order to silence their critics. Management is perfectly willing to buy this line of bull... at least until the bad design hits the regular users who may not know exactly what is wrong, but they DO know it is wrong, and out come the torches and pitchforks.
The good designers of the past were _already designing_ for the same sort of user the new designers claim to be designing for; that's been the case since about 1984. This new user who likes the new stuff... basically doesn't exist.
"You must be stupid if you believe that" is not a logical fallacy. "You are stupid, therefore what you believe is false" is a logical fallacy (ad hominem). "People who believe things that are obviously false are stupid. That is obviously false and you believe it, therefore you must be stupid" is valid, assuming you accept the premises.
"ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source"... where they encounter Richard "THAT'S FREE SOFTWARE TO YOU" Stallman , Linus Torvalds, and Theo De Raadt and vow never to touch a computer again.
This is the sort of material which could be used for artificial hearts for lawyers, bankers, and politicians.
Wait, the gospel has changed from the old story about the horrible Westerners using 99% of the resources and producing 150% of the pollution by oppressing the poverty-stricken but frugal and in-tune with nature third-worlders? When did this happen?