The school DID say "If you want to participate in our optional program, or continue to receive funding from us, then you will not do this."
There's a difference.
The same goes for the school as a whole. All the taxpayers have to do is say, "sorry, Kent State, but if you want state money for the school, you have to play by our rules, which include the First Ammendment." Problem solved.
Historically death taxes have been used politically to prevent the build-up of power in family lines which would challenge the current ruling party.
Are you trying to argue that preventing a class-based society is a bad thing? Wow, now I've heard everything.
Look, the entitlement class (i.e. trust-fund babies) doesn't challenge the ruling party, they are the ruling party. How can you not see that? Don't you know who our President is?
Another interesting tie-in with current events is the recent near-miss to eliminate the death tax. One argument in favor of the death tax is that it promotes charity by the elderly in order to avoid the tax.
Now, personally, I think the death tax is the most fair tax possible. You can't take it with you anyways, and your heirs didn't earn it.
Yeah, I don't know how I overlooked the British Empire. I thought of it soon after posting and just knew somebody would call me on it. The Romans probably deserve an honorable mention too.
There's a reason people are suing everybody, there's a reason tobacco companies have been losing so much money in courts; we're like a cuontry of 8 year olds, always pointing at somebody else in the back of class that through the paper airplane.
Yeah, I wish everybody else could be as wonderful and mature as me, too. (Surprisingly enough, that sentiment is almost universal. Just look at the moderation of your post).
But you really should RTA, since the hypothesis has nothing to do with what you wrote and is really quite interesting.
I almost hate to say it, but I don't think taxes are our problem right now. You can tax as little or as much as you want, but if you keep spending anyways, the piper WILL be paid, one way or another. It's when the money is spend that it is truly lost, particularly if it literally goes up in smoke (blowing stuff up that will have to be rebuilt) instead of circulating in the economy.
First, I think our military might be sized right, but also might be underfunded. Why? We can barely keep an occupying force together in one country of 24 million.
But occupation is enormously more expensive than national defense. Let's pretend for a moment that our big defense spending priority was preventing an Iraqi amphibious invasion of the Eastern seaboard. How much would that cost us?
What's expensive is projecting power. What do aircraft carriers, strategic bombers, nukes, ICBMs, and satellites all have in common? 1) They're means for projecting power long-range, and 2) they're fantastically expensive. Only two nations have ever really had the means to project power across the globe. One of them went bankrupt, and the other is living on credit.
Based on the screenshots, I thought the Inkscape font rendering looked really bad. Turns out, it's only because their screenshots are quite large and Firefox squishes them down to fit on the screen. Firefox ought to use some more sophisticated downsampling algorithm instead of simply discarding rows and columns of pixels, but there you go. If you move your cursor over the pictures and get a magnifying glass, click it to see the real quality of the Inkscape images.
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I hate puzzles and I also never cared about AI in quake. For me it was always about multiplayer. Even worked reasonably well on my 28.8 modem.
IMHO the D600 stinks. I have a D600 and an IBM T40 on my desk. Same vintage, same processor, ram, etc. For some reason the D600 gets much shorter battery life, presumably because the battery is so small... yet the overall machine is substantially more bulky than the T40. Worse yet, neither this D600 or a spare I tried is even stable, normally it crashes within a day or two. What's the deal?
I don't know about the others, but the one I've tried - Windows Live Messenger - doesn't work with Firefox in the slightest. Personally I don't think a program can be called a "web service" if it only runs on a single proprietary client application (MSIE).
I really can't believe there's imminent risk of MS tanking. They haven't really updated their cash-cow products in years now and the profits are still pouring in, with no serious threat to their desktop dominance on the horizon. Nice work if you can get it.
I supppose drag racing totally escapes you as well?
Look, any time you optimize for a single parameter of performance, you're going to get something weird. But it allows you to push that single aspect of performance and measure it independent of everything else. That way you know what compromises you're making in that area when you make a more realistic design.
Personally I'm amazed a vehicle can carry a person and get over 3000 MPG. It really puts the status quo into perspective.
But Boston isn't a closed economy. How much different would it look without a billion Chinese slaving away behind the scenes to keep the shelves stocked?
So? Look at the per capita GDP over the last 50 years (it's gone up a lot). Look at almost any measure of economic well-being (i.e average home size... they've gone up a lot). Look at longevity (much higher). Even simple, objective things like fastest 100 meter dash show continued improvement. In many ways, the old standars of performance don't cut it any more.
CORBA could *easily* be revived if Sun finally grasped the revolution in the market and decided to do so.
I don't think so. I spent almost 3 years working on an abstraction layer over CORBA so the other members of my (very large) development team could use it without being specialists. It's true that CORBA does everything, and does it well, but it's just too much.
What I meant is, it's probably much cheaper to make 16 small sensors with the same total area and number of megapixels as one huge sensor. If you could get the seams down to just a few pixels wide, it might be a good tradeoff.
Why are there so few options for the latter scenario? And an even better question: why are there so many options for the former scenario!?
You just answered your own question; obviously more people care about high performance than super light weight. My manager has both a tiny, light laptop and a pretty big honkin fast one. He travels all the time, and he seems to use his larger laptop a lot more. I think he just likes the full-sized keyboard and big screen, and it's a pain moving data back and forth to the small one. He's a fairly big guy and I doubt he cares about a few pounds of laptop.
Then there are people like my parents who never use their laptop on battery power, but take it to different rooms at home, or their second home on weekends. Another few pounds certainly don't matter to them.
Me, I go for a middleweight (14" screen). I doubt I would notice 5 lbs either way, but big screens are unweildy in econo-class airline seating. Having used both, there's a huge difference in performance between the smallest laptops and a good mid-sized laptop like the IBM (Lenovo) T-series.
I think the real problem is that people still don't have players for a service like this in their livingrooms. I believe TiVo has now just recently dipped a toe into the Internet content download market, but until more people have broadband-attached PVRs in their livingroom, it can't replace DVDs.
think you need to define instantly. I am pretty sure I can drive to the local store, buy the DVD, get home, and start watching it before a DVD download from iTunes completes.
Well, cable TV takes two hours down download a two hour movie to your TV, and it seems to be doing OK. Of course you'll want some amount of buffering to overcome bandwidth limitations and jitter, but downloading the whole thing beforehand would just be silly.
A store-bought DVD is about 6 mb/s, which is coming within reach of many cable internet connections. No doubt the download movies will have a significantly lower bitrate to begin with (though hopefully higher than iPod TV downloads). But even at 3 mb/s, with a better codec than DVD uses, you can get good quality.
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Look, the entitlement class (i.e. trust-fund babies) doesn't challenge the ruling party, they are the ruling party. How can you not see that? Don't you know who our President is?
Now, personally, I think the death tax is the most fair tax possible. You can't take it with you anyways, and your heirs didn't earn it.
Yeah, I don't know how I overlooked the British Empire. I thought of it soon after posting and just knew somebody would call me on it. The Romans probably deserve an honorable mention too.
But you really should RTA, since the hypothesis has nothing to do with what you wrote and is really quite interesting.
I almost hate to say it, but I don't think taxes are our problem right now. You can tax as little or as much as you want, but if you keep spending anyways, the piper WILL be paid, one way or another. It's when the money is spend that it is truly lost, particularly if it literally goes up in smoke (blowing stuff up that will have to be rebuilt) instead of circulating in the economy.
Forget the taxes, taxes are evil. We'll just buy everything we want and let our kids live with the consequences.
What's expensive is projecting power. What do aircraft carriers, strategic bombers, nukes, ICBMs, and satellites all have in common? 1) They're means for projecting power long-range, and 2) they're fantastically expensive. Only two nations have ever really had the means to project power across the globe. One of them went bankrupt, and the other is living on credit.
Based on the screenshots, I thought the Inkscape font rendering looked really bad. Turns out, it's only because their screenshots are quite large and Firefox squishes them down to fit on the screen. Firefox ought to use some more sophisticated downsampling algorithm instead of simply discarding rows and columns of pixels, but there you go. If you move your cursor over the pictures and get a magnifying glass, click it to see the real quality of the Inkscape images.
I hate puzzles and I also never cared about AI in quake. For me it was always about multiplayer. Even worked reasonably well on my 28.8 modem.
IMHO the D600 stinks. I have a D600 and an IBM T40 on my desk. Same vintage, same processor, ram, etc. For some reason the D600 gets much shorter battery life, presumably because the battery is so small... yet the overall machine is substantially more bulky than the T40. Worse yet, neither this D600 or a spare I tried is even stable, normally it crashes within a day or two. What's the deal?
I don't know about the others, but the one I've tried - Windows Live Messenger - doesn't work with Firefox in the slightest. Personally I don't think a program can be called a "web service" if it only runs on a single proprietary client application (MSIE).
I really can't believe there's imminent risk of MS tanking. They haven't really updated their cash-cow products in years now and the profits are still pouring in, with no serious threat to their desktop dominance on the horizon. Nice work if you can get it.
Look, any time you optimize for a single parameter of performance, you're going to get something weird. But it allows you to push that single aspect of performance and measure it independent of everything else. That way you know what compromises you're making in that area when you make a more realistic design.
Personally I'm amazed a vehicle can carry a person and get over 3000 MPG. It really puts the status quo into perspective.
But Boston isn't a closed economy. How much different would it look without a billion Chinese slaving away behind the scenes to keep the shelves stocked?
So? Look at the per capita GDP over the last 50 years (it's gone up a lot). Look at almost any measure of economic well-being (i.e average home size... they've gone up a lot). Look at longevity (much higher). Even simple, objective things like fastest 100 meter dash show continued improvement. In many ways, the old standars of performance don't cut it any more.
What I meant is, it's probably much cheaper to make 16 small sensors with the same total area and number of megapixels as one huge sensor. If you could get the seams down to just a few pixels wide, it might be a good tradeoff.
Then there are people like my parents who never use their laptop on battery power, but take it to different rooms at home, or their second home on weekends. Another few pounds certainly don't matter to them.
Me, I go for a middleweight (14" screen). I doubt I would notice 5 lbs either way, but big screens are unweildy in econo-class airline seating. Having used both, there's a huge difference in performance between the smallest laptops and a good mid-sized laptop like the IBM (Lenovo) T-series.
At what point is it more sensible to use a tiling of smaller sensors instead?
I think the real problem is that people still don't have players for a service like this in their livingrooms. I believe TiVo has now just recently dipped a toe into the Internet content download market, but until more people have broadband-attached PVRs in their livingroom, it can't replace DVDs.
A store-bought DVD is about 6 mb/s, which is coming within reach of many cable internet connections. No doubt the download movies will have a significantly lower bitrate to begin with (though hopefully higher than iPod TV downloads). But even at 3 mb/s, with a better codec than DVD uses, you can get good quality.