Social security alone (23%) is TWICE the interest on the national debt (12%), and Social Security + medicare + medicaid = 42% is FAR larger than defense (16%) + national debt = 28%.
One of the surprises you will find is that, if you start saving $100/month at 20, you will live better than someone who starts saving $1,000/month at 30. Time is the most important ingredient in saving, and if you are only 24, you still have a good amount of time on your side.
I would like to know why you say that.
If you save $100/month, assuming 6.9% interest after 40 years you'll have $255,225.08. If you save $1000/month, after 30 years you'll have $1,196,170.35. (Interest calculator).
" In order to reasonably support the people expected to make social security claims over the next thirty years, taxes would have to be doubled at a minimum. "
ATI, pinnacle, and others bundle software to "Search and schedule programs for viewing or recording by title, category (i.e. golf, comedies, etc.), actor/performer or date"- in short, they're not barebones recorders either - yet require no monthly fee. You wouldn't be criticizing TV tuner cards without having used one, would you?
So? You don't actually believe that the combined economies of two of the most populous countries on Earth is somehow smaller than that of two countries (North America is the U.S.A and Canada). Do you?
these companies need to start hearing vocally from consumers who will not buy their brands based on their overbearing legal tactics
I disagree that market forces are the cure for this problem - after all, the litigants are abusing the law, not the market. It's the *government* that's making bad decisions (at the promptings of big business, of course).
What these cases really need is a judge to say, "sorry McDonald's, this one's easy. You lose."
Apache is only #1 because Internet Information Server is not available on the operating systems run by the majority of web servers.
"Only"? That's one big advantage of open source, right there - platform independence. Once gcc is ported to a new platform, watch out.
If you look at the market where Apache and IIS compete, you see IIS with a near 90% marketshare while Apache struggles for second place against other servers like Xitami and WebSitePro/Visnetic.
Assuming I've chosen the Apache webserver (as most people do), why would I then spend money on a host OS unnecessarily?
Yes, Apache and Mozilla are great products, but if there are so great, why aren't people dropping their closed source software and downloading their open source counterparts in droves? Hell, the two examples given are not only open source, but they're free!
Apache seems an odd example for you to cite. It's the #1 webserver on the planet - in other words, people *are* downloading it in droves. As for Mozilla, remember that its entrenched competitor is also "free."
I like to keep documentation under revision control, and part of documentation is images. Also bitmaps for toolbars etc. And for that matter Word files. (Yes, it's suboptimal because you can't usefully compare revisions if you consider them binary files, but at least you can keep all the old versions around).
That's my approach to the piano. So many other people already play, why bother reinventing the wheel by starting with chopsticks? I'm not playing a note until I get I get a record deal.
Probably, except what was that part about being gladly audited by the BSA? That's kooky-talk. Nobody in their right mind wants to be guilty until proven innocent.
I assumed he meant "total cpus" (whether or not on the same memory bus), i.e. google would be a 100 cpu website, so would a site with a dozen 8-way Sun boxes (well, almost).
Here's a paper I did comparing various PCs with Onyx systems with Infinite Reality and IR2 graphics systems.
The graphs are at the end.
The result is that PC's have recently surpassed these 5-6 year-old SGIs in rendering of basic texture-mapped lighted polygons, but the PC hardware doesn't accelerate some things at all (like the accumulation buffer).
Nothing will eliminate the former excepting caches bigger than your max data set,
A clever game would issue a nonblocking read (or a read from a different thread) either ahead of time (keeping an extra prefetched 'cusion' all around the user) or for nonessential data (i.e. why block the whole game just to read the next level of a mipmap - just use the low-res one until the bigger one is read in).
I think maybe Falcon 4.0 did something like this, becuase sometimes the terraion would be untextured for a moment after turning directions sharply. Or maybe that was just one of the game's innumerable bugs.
One time I made a slashdot to NNTP gateway so I could read slashdot with a news reader. I went on vacation for the weekend, and due to a bug the bot (running on a university computer with decent bandwidth) got stuck in a loop hammering slashdot constantly. So they banned that IP. Surely there are some such instances where banning an IP is allowable?
Besides, the video capture is sorely lacking. The "video4linux" interface only implements a small handful (like 4) of the functions in the video4linux api, so most capture programs will NOT work with AIW cards.
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As I understand it, code for the IA-64 is not in the least "clean." It's full of explicit parallelism and is extremely timing-specific. I'm wondering if this will be the first ISA for which it's not practical to write good assembly by hand.
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Like you said, "built good products during the preceeding bust" and that is the *main* problem with the Itanium today - not the economy, but the fact that the chip isn't very good. Of course they still have the PIV going strong, and who knows what else in the works.
I'm sure Intel has enough money to bring this thing back on course eventually, but we're talking about a screwup of several $1e9, which is interesting and newsworthy in itself imho.
The statistic about 10% of the users using 90% of the bandwidth is correct. It's not fair to everyone else.
True, but the 80/20 or 90/10 rule also goes for most things, including resources much more expensive than bandwidth like professors' time, or for that matter water usage - most anything, really. Even if you charge per unit of service, it's still true.
Anyways, I think bandwidth shaping is exactly the right response: instead of cracking down on certain content or applications, address the problem of bandwidth usage directly.
If ISPs would get their acts together and implement the same thing, we wouldn't need slow upstream bandwidth or restrictions on servers for residential cable networks, either.
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from a Canon S100 It sure doesn't look like a nicely scanned page, but it's legible and some contrast boost would probably help a lot.
Social security alone (23%) is TWICE the interest on the national debt (12%), and Social Security + medicare + medicaid = 42% is FAR larger than defense (16%) + national debt = 28%.
If you save $100/month, assuming 6.9% interest after 40 years you'll have $255,225.08. If you save $1000/month, after 30 years you'll have $1,196,170.35. (Interest calculator).
We could easily replace it, and more, with nuclear, saving the environment at the same time.
Be sure your batteries get plenty of fiber to avoid constipation.
nickel-cadmium, lead-acid, nickel metal hydride, carbon-zinc, lithium... ummmm, it makes my mouth water.
ATI, pinnacle, and others bundle software to "Search and schedule programs for viewing or recording by title, category (i.e. golf, comedies, etc.), actor/performer or date"- in short, they're not barebones recorders either - yet require no monthly fee. You wouldn't be criticizing TV tuner cards without having used one, would you?
Well, let's look up the answer, shall we?
Year 2000 GDP
USA - $9.963 trillion
China - $4.5 trillion
India - $2.2 trillion
Canada - $774.7 billion
So in fact it's not even very close (even without counting Canada.)
What these cases really need is a judge to say, "sorry McDonald's, this one's easy. You lose."
Is that a lot? Tyson got $17 million for losing.
I like to keep documentation under revision control, and part of documentation is images. Also bitmaps for toolbars etc. And for that matter Word files. (Yes, it's suboptimal because you can't usefully compare revisions if you consider them binary files, but at least you can keep all the old versions around).
Have you ever read this?
That's my approach to the piano. So many other people already play, why bother reinventing the wheel by starting with chopsticks? I'm not playing a note until I get I get a record deal.
Probably, except what was that part about being gladly audited by the BSA? That's kooky-talk. Nobody in their right mind wants to be guilty until proven innocent.
I assumed he meant "total cpus" (whether or not on the same memory bus), i.e. google would be a 100 cpu website, so would a site with a dozen 8-way Sun boxes (well, almost).
The graphs are at the end.
The result is that PC's have recently surpassed these 5-6 year-old SGIs in rendering of basic texture-mapped lighted polygons, but the PC hardware doesn't accelerate some things at all (like the accumulation buffer).
I think maybe Falcon 4.0 did something like this, becuase sometimes the terraion would be untextured for a moment after turning directions sharply. Or maybe that was just one of the game's innumerable bugs.
One time I made a slashdot to NNTP gateway so I could read slashdot with a news reader. I went on vacation for the weekend, and due to a bug the bot (running on a university computer with decent bandwidth) got stuck in a loop hammering slashdot constantly. So they banned that IP. Surely there are some such instances where banning an IP is allowable?
Besides, the video capture is sorely lacking. The "video4linux" interface only implements a small handful (like 4) of the functions in the video4linux api, so most capture programs will NOT work with AIW cards.
As I understand it, code for the IA-64 is not in the least "clean." It's full of explicit parallelism and is extremely timing-specific. I'm wondering if this will be the first ISA for which it's not practical to write good assembly by hand.
I'm sure Intel has enough money to bring this thing back on course eventually, but we're talking about a screwup of several $1e9, which is interesting and newsworthy in itself imho.
Anyways, I think bandwidth shaping is exactly the right response: instead of cracking down on certain content or applications, address the problem of bandwidth usage directly.
If ISPs would get their acts together and implement the same thing, we wouldn't need slow upstream bandwidth or restrictions on servers for residential cable networks, either.