I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
It's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Not only should we know what we think we should know, should we not also know of what we think we should not know?
Kerry's plan is to get Congress to pass a tax penalty on companies that send jobs overseas.
Funny. I thought his plan was to remove the tax cut that businesses already get for their overseas ventures. Unless removing a previous tax cut constitutes a tax penalty? Oh wait, no it doesn't. If he is planning something further than that, I haven't heard about it.
I can't find the CNN article that was released a few months ago so these numbers are a little fuzzy. Something like 30% of US corporations pay tax. That is, 70% don't. In the 70's this number was reversed. Of the fortune 500 top 100, I think it was 3 pay tax. All the rest pay absolutely nothing. This is due to the tax cuts passed all the time when companies pay for senate/house election campaigns. Why can't we start killing all these corruption-driven breaks?
Not to mention Green Policy -> Better Fiscal Policy. Sure right away there are high upfront costs but hundreds of billions of dollars will be saved in the future. Billions of dollars have been spent cleaning up because we decided to do thinks cheaply to begin with. As a whole (despite the "conserve") the democratic party is far more green than the republican party. I think this is because of either vested interest in coal/oil etc (both parties, but republicans more), or because they're afraid of something going wrong under their watch.
It cannot be stated enough- every coal and oil plant in this country must be shut down. Modern nuclear plants need to be built and then the old ones shut down. NIMBY? Now THAT is unpatriotic, not french fries.
This is very interesting because I've heard the opposite so many times. I was just lately starting to figure that there was a difference between the unemployment rate and jobless rate, but perhaps the truth is "unemployed" now isn't PC or something.
Anyway I am very surprised to hear this. I was even told by an economics professor that the unemployment rate comes from unemployment claims. I know that people still cite "people filing for unemployment".
1) What the market will pay.
2) To a much greater extent, what it costs to make.
I agree with both of these, except I find that (1) is much more important. Compare: Nike with no name shoes, Lexus with Scion, etc. In many industries there are several different brands where some are simply thought of as better than others. It doesn't cost the high end people of any brand more than say, 10% higher than the rest to create the product, however they sell it for two to ten (or higher) times the amount of the other brand. Sure, the "top" brand spends money on marketing their product as being great, but the low end brands have to market just as much if not more. It's completely arbitrary, really. Start a product and see what rank it fits in the public mindset, and price accordingly.
The pair of shoes I am wearing, honestly, cost me $9. I wouldn't be any happier shelling out ten times that amount.
Do you believe that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Mormons should be allowed to practice polygamy?
Yes. Whether I personally think it's right has no bearing over whether others should be allowed to do it, now does it? I would never get a piercing or tattoo. Does that mean I'm against them?
Intel has tried to break with x86 at least twice. The first time was with a RISC processor (which is now used as an integrated device) and another is the 64 bit processor. They wanted tried to dump x86 right then and there but AMD beat them to the punch with full backwards compatibility so they had to do the same. It's sad really- if they talked to each other before the 64 bit rush and settled on a new standard we'd be fine.
Anyway for the large part it's moot because the only part that's really x86 CISC is the ISA which gets translated into a RISC microcode inside the system. I don't know how long it's been this way but my guess is since pentium pro? Really don't know.
That's pretty low man. I've coded plenty before and I've never encountered an instance where I can't check to see if a buffer overflow has occurred. I can't help but feel that all of these exploits are just sloppy programming. That is, they shouldn't exist and even the most basic test would show a problem. I don't know what kind of excuse you're trying to make for the programmers but your cowardly incorrect one sentence observation doesn't give me any insight.
Still, I have to wonder how they internally wrote code to let things like this happen. It seems to me you want to write your program such that if something unintentioned does happen, it is at least bound by what it can do. Execution stemming from a jpeg? Oh, come on:P
Chimpanzee 1: Help! The human's about to escape.
Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape!
Chimpanzee 2: (gasp) He can talk!
Orangutans: He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
Troy: And I can siiiiiiiiiiing!
Chimp Nurse: Oooh! Help me, Dr. Zaius!
Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
O, Dr. Zaius!
Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: What's wrong with me?
Dr. Zaius: I think you're crazy.
Troy: I want a second opinion.
Dr. Zaius: You're also lazy.
Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
O, Dr. Zaius!
Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: Can I play the piano any more?
Dr. Zaius: Of course you can!
Troy: Well I couldn't before.
(plays piano)
Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: I hate every ape I see,
From chimpan-A to chimpanzee,
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!
(Statue of Liberty rises)
O my God! I was wrong!
It was Earth, all along!
You've finally made a monkey,
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey,
Troy: Yes you've
& Apes: finally made a monkey out of me!
Is there addressing such that a byte is indivisible? That is, if they store 1 gig (1073741824*8 bits), they have 3 extra bits of address space to specify the exact bit of memory you want? Once you've extracted the memory whether you take a byte, or word (which of course can be any size depending on the computer) true, it's up to you to decide how to use it... but can you really ask for any individual bit? I'm surprised you can even ask for an individual byte (which I am now assuming you can do).
So anyway I do see your point, but I could make the same argument that since gasoline is traded by the barrel we should use barrels instead of gallons when determining fuel quantities and efficiency.
I think he means to say that when a measurement is given in ****bits, it's usually speed. There's no reason to give either storage or bandwidth in bits anymore, so why not make a convention between the two? OR at least stop using one. I don't care how many rods to the barrel my car gets.
So then the real question is this: Does rephrasing what you're doing into a more general term make the action no longer evil? Let's watch!
* We censor news articles that are deemed unfit for the public because they will create unrest. (Evil)
Renamed:
* We follow the rules of any country we want to do business in so we don't get in trouble. (Doesn't sound evil)
Do the ends (money) justify the means (sacrificing own morals and serving to the detriment of human civilization)?
I think the solution starts by the companies not obeying censorship attempts. If the government tries to use force, the people themselves need to defend their rights.
Well they just knocked out 300,000,000 people from doing it. Now the other 5,700,000,000 people need to have similar law. This is one thing I think the UN should be very big on. I for one think my country (the US) is far to egocentric and it needs to have more international laws and agreements in place. Conversely the US should try to make any laws it really enjoys international as well (er that is, present them as options, not enforce them with righteousness).
I've said 'zed' before and it completely freaked everyone out. By that I mean no one got it, and once I told them that's what the letter Z is actually called, they had to go to a dictionary before they believed me. I bet they changed it to 'zee' in this country so our alphabet would rhyme. Zed is also nice because you won't confuse it with C. That being said, English (uhh.. hillbillies?) folk hardly use Z at all. I admit that we don't use it all the time when we should either (phase? no phaze. ~ism? no, izm, etc). The English language is so screwed up anyway I don't think there's any sense trying to save any part of it. We can't even get our units right.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say-- mostly because of that tone. You do seem to think yourself better than s/he.
I also do not appreciate the increasing ads at the same time as increasing ticket prices. The food is too expensive to buy anymore as well. The theatre experience as a whole has degraded significantly.
What I am about to say to you might blow your mind: Perhaps if you weigh the experience of a theater with the current prices, ads, etc, versus downloading it and watching it in your own home, you'll find the latter is actually better all around. Now true, there is breaking the law and all, but that doesn't enter into it, now does it? That's a side effect that doesn't affect the experience, although it might affect your decision.
My pseudo-mini conclusion is that watching movies at home (if you like your home) is now better than watching them at a theatre. As for piracy, copyrights, etc, that's a different argument. What I got from what s/he stated is that it wasn't enough to tip the scales back to the theatre (or just barely), and I for the most part agree. I will say that the general crapiness of movies also does not enter into the equation, although some might argue otherwise.
I mean something kinda inbetween. Intel certainly benefits from Windows pumping out a new operating system every so often. True, there are a lot of systems still running Windows 95, but I'd wager the (not quite exponential) increase in windows system requires helps them out.
The last thing Intel wants is to hurt linux. Strong OS competition is good for the chip industry (and basically every industry that touches it). I agree with your BS call. Intel has dumped Microsoft in the past (XBox 2) and has no special allegiance to them. They have a symbiotic relationship that they (Intel) want to break.
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I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
It's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Not only should we know what we think we should know, should we not also know of what we think we should not know?
Kerry's plan is to get Congress to pass a tax penalty on companies that send jobs overseas.
Funny. I thought his plan was to remove the tax cut that businesses already get for their overseas ventures. Unless removing a previous tax cut constitutes a tax penalty? Oh wait, no it doesn't. If he is planning something further than that, I haven't heard about it.
I can't find the CNN article that was released a few months ago so these numbers are a little fuzzy. Something like 30% of US corporations pay tax. That is, 70% don't. In the 70's this number was reversed. Of the fortune 500 top 100, I think it was 3 pay tax. All the rest pay absolutely nothing. This is due to the tax cuts passed all the time when companies pay for senate/house election campaigns. Why can't we start killing all these corruption-driven breaks?
Not to mention Green Policy -> Better Fiscal Policy. Sure right away there are high upfront costs but hundreds of billions of dollars will be saved in the future. Billions of dollars have been spent cleaning up because we decided to do thinks cheaply to begin with. As a whole (despite the "conserve") the democratic party is far more green than the republican party. I think this is because of either vested interest in coal/oil etc (both parties, but republicans more), or because they're afraid of something going wrong under their watch.
It cannot be stated enough- every coal and oil plant in this country must be shut down. Modern nuclear plants need to be built and then the old ones shut down. NIMBY? Now THAT is unpatriotic, not french fries.
This is very interesting because I've heard the opposite so many times. I was just lately starting to figure that there was a difference between the unemployment rate and jobless rate, but perhaps the truth is "unemployed" now isn't PC or something.
Anyway I am very surprised to hear this. I was even told by an economics professor that the unemployment rate comes from unemployment claims. I know that people still cite "people filing for unemployment".
1) What the market will pay. 2) To a much greater extent, what it costs to make.
I agree with both of these, except I find that (1) is much more important. Compare: Nike with no name shoes, Lexus with Scion, etc. In many industries there are several different brands where some are simply thought of as better than others. It doesn't cost the high end people of any brand more than say, 10% higher than the rest to create the product, however they sell it for two to ten (or higher) times the amount of the other brand. Sure, the "top" brand spends money on marketing their product as being great, but the low end brands have to market just as much if not more. It's completely arbitrary, really. Start a product and see what rank it fits in the public mindset, and price accordingly.
The pair of shoes I am wearing, honestly, cost me $9. I wouldn't be any happier shelling out ten times that amount.
Do you believe that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Mormons should be allowed to practice polygamy?
Yes. Whether I personally think it's right has no bearing over whether others should be allowed to do it, now does it? I would never get a piercing or tattoo. Does that mean I'm against them?
Intel has tried to break with x86 at least twice. The first time was with a RISC processor (which is now used as an integrated device) and another is the 64 bit processor. They wanted tried to dump x86 right then and there but AMD beat them to the punch with full backwards compatibility so they had to do the same. It's sad really- if they talked to each other before the 64 bit rush and settled on a new standard we'd be fine.
Anyway for the large part it's moot because the only part that's really x86 CISC is the ISA which gets translated into a RISC microcode inside the system. I don't know how long it's been this way but my guess is since pentium pro? Really don't know.
That's pretty low man. I've coded plenty before and I've never encountered an instance where I can't check to see if a buffer overflow has occurred. I can't help but feel that all of these exploits are just sloppy programming. That is, they shouldn't exist and even the most basic test would show a problem. I don't know what kind of excuse you're trying to make for the programmers but your cowardly incorrect one sentence observation doesn't give me any insight.
Still, I have to wonder how they internally wrote code to let things like this happen. It seems to me you want to write your program such that if something unintentioned does happen, it is at least bound by what it can do. Execution stemming from a jpeg? Oh, come on :P
I'm surprised he needed a screwdriver. I thought those things would open on the user's sense of elitism alone.
I was thinking of..
Chimpanzee 1: Help! The human's about to escape. Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape!
Chimpanzee 2: (gasp) He can talk!
Orangutans: He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
Troy: And I can siiiiiiiiiiing!
Chimp Nurse: Oooh! Help me, Dr. Zaius! Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
O, Dr. Zaius!
Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: What's wrong with me?
Dr. Zaius: I think you're crazy.
Troy: I want a second opinion.
Dr. Zaius: You're also lazy.
Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
O, Dr. Zaius!
Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: Can I play the piano any more?
Dr. Zaius: Of course you can!
Troy: Well I couldn't before.
(plays piano)
Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
Troy: I hate every ape I see,
From chimpan-A to chimpanzee,
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!
(Statue of Liberty rises)
O my God! I was wrong!
It was Earth, all along!
You've finally made a monkey,
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey,
Troy: Yes you've
& Apes: finally made a monkey out of me!
Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius
I've seen people with more music than iTunes. That's gotta mean something.
Ok, maybe not, but it's pretty funny.
Is there addressing such that a byte is indivisible? That is, if they store 1 gig (1073741824*8 bits), they have 3 extra bits of address space to specify the exact bit of memory you want? Once you've extracted the memory whether you take a byte, or word (which of course can be any size depending on the computer) true, it's up to you to decide how to use it... but can you really ask for any individual bit? I'm surprised you can even ask for an individual byte (which I am now assuming you can do).
So anyway I do see your point, but I could make the same argument that since gasoline is traded by the barrel we should use barrels instead of gallons when determining fuel quantities and efficiency.
Buy a hybrid car, now with 42% more rods!
Typical reaction: Wow! That's almost 45%
I think he means to say that when a measurement is given in ****bits, it's usually speed. There's no reason to give either storage or bandwidth in bits anymore, so why not make a convention between the two? OR at least stop using one. I don't care how many rods to the barrel my car gets.
So then the real question is this: Does rephrasing what you're doing into a more general term make the action no longer evil? Let's watch!
* We censor news articles that are deemed unfit for the public because they will create unrest. (Evil)
Renamed:
* We follow the rules of any country we want to do business in so we don't get in trouble. (Doesn't sound evil)
Do the ends (money) justify the means (sacrificing own morals and serving to the detriment of human civilization)?
I think the solution starts by the companies not obeying censorship attempts. If the government tries to use force, the people themselves need to defend their rights.
Well they just knocked out 300,000,000 people from doing it. Now the other 5,700,000,000 people need to have similar law. This is one thing I think the UN should be very big on. I for one think my country (the US) is far to egocentric and it needs to have more international laws and agreements in place. Conversely the US should try to make any laws it really enjoys international as well (er that is, present them as options, not enforce them with righteousness).
and doesn't let you delete the history
Right. Just like how Gmail doesn't let you delete messages. Oh wait.
I've said 'zed' before and it completely freaked everyone out. By that I mean no one got it, and once I told them that's what the letter Z is actually called, they had to go to a dictionary before they believed me. I bet they changed it to 'zee' in this country so our alphabet would rhyme. Zed is also nice because you won't confuse it with C. That being said, English (uhh.. hillbillies?) folk hardly use Z at all. I admit that we don't use it all the time when we should either (phase? no phaze. ~ism? no, izm, etc). The English language is so screwed up anyway I don't think there's any sense trying to save any part of it. We can't even get our units right.
Umm, actually I think Mars is quite happy with the prospect of not having us.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say-- mostly because of that tone. You do seem to think yourself better than s/he.
I also do not appreciate the increasing ads at the same time as increasing ticket prices. The food is too expensive to buy anymore as well. The theatre experience as a whole has degraded significantly.
What I am about to say to you might blow your mind: Perhaps if you weigh the experience of a theater with the current prices, ads, etc, versus downloading it and watching it in your own home, you'll find the latter is actually better all around. Now true, there is breaking the law and all, but that doesn't enter into it, now does it? That's a side effect that doesn't affect the experience, although it might affect your decision.
My pseudo-mini conclusion is that watching movies at home (if you like your home) is now better than watching them at a theatre. As for piracy, copyrights, etc, that's a different argument. What I got from what s/he stated is that it wasn't enough to tip the scales back to the theatre (or just barely), and I for the most part agree. I will say that the general crapiness of movies also does not enter into the equation, although some might argue otherwise.
I mean something kinda inbetween. Intel certainly benefits from Windows pumping out a new operating system every so often. True, there are a lot of systems still running Windows 95, but I'd wager the (not quite exponential) increase in windows system requires helps them out.
The last thing Intel wants is to hurt linux. Strong OS competition is good for the chip industry (and basically every industry that touches it). I agree with your BS call. Intel has dumped Microsoft in the past (XBox 2) and has no special allegiance to them. They have a symbiotic relationship that they (Intel) want to break.
Dan Rather personally forged them? He's more popular than Bush or Kerry, I'm sure he has a team that can do it for him.
Rather Jennings '08!