the problem is that you're imagining things- there's nothing in my post to suggest that i equate productivity with good living. i equate productivity with being good for the economy, as does the eu and france, as they're wanting to increase their productivity to be closer to the US.
as far as not believing me about health care, that's your perogative to remain ignorant, but i don't see why you would not believe the quality of my own health care, based on your own poor experiences. analagously, that's like you not believing i could own a car that goes from 0-60 in 4.5 seconds because the only car you've ever driven is a 3 cylinder geo metro that takes 12 seconds. it simply makes no sense, and is a bit asinine.
They do have a "stable" 10 percent unemployment rate,
If the US measured unemployment using the same method that Germany and France uses, the US unemployment would be about 9-11% right now. US does not count people for whom unemployment benefits have expired.
yes, little cars- the 60mpg ones in the post i was responding to.
yes, poor healthcare. it doesn't kick the u.s.'s ass if you have good healthcare in the us. sure, you can have worse here, but i don't. =D
as for the work hours- there's no hating. go back and read the news when france switched to 35 hours. it's because the economy is crap and unemployment is high. don't try to glorify that.
it would be good if everyone's working less hours because of automation- but that's not the case. french productivity (and europe in general) is lower than the united states (check the eu reports), and hours were reduced to try to improve the bad unemployment rate.
us healthcare, the good stuff, is just about the best in the world. and not only have i left the country many times, i wasn't even born here.
All competing telco companies offering these services, Wanadoo, Free, Neuf, etc, are not subsidized. They are actualy publicly traded and they make very nice profits. The french state does own a minority share of France Telecom, Wanadoo's mother company.
sure, it's a minority share, but just barely. and it only became a minority share last year, after essentially all the costly infrastructure has been built.
they have a 35 hour work week because unemployment is so high they needed to scale back the work hours (and pay) to try to get more people into the work force.
i could get a crappy little car here if i wanted to, but i can chose not, without paying an arm and a leg.
their healthcare is neither free, nor top quality. i pay less, for better care.
*you* need to think about it and quit believing the hype.
I bet you're paying the same or higher prices as you were all those years ago. If you rented a brand new car and paid the same price for 6 years, you'd be a fool. If you rented the same computer for 6 years for the same price, wouldn't you expect the technology to improve, or at least for the economies of scale to make it cheaper? Why not expect more from your Internet provider?
i'm in the LA area, and my broadband access (verizon dsl) has gotten faster and cheaper every year since i've had it (3 years). started out at $40/month for 768/128, down to $30 for 1.5/256, and i'm currently at $26.95 for 3M/768. they've sent me an offer to renew at $23.95/month for 3M/768. and that includes 500mb web space, unlimited photo hosting, and some other crap i don't use. additionally, for those coming from dialup, you can currently 768/128 for $14.95/month.
at one point i was going to go w/ speakeasy, since they were competitive in price, but verizon's prices have come down such a huge amount it's not quite worth it anymore...
I just came back from a vacation in france, at my parent's house, in a lost "village" in the middle of the alps. There are maybe 4 farms on a square kilometer. What do you know, over there I had 20meg dsl line with wireless hotspots. Their cost: 12 euro a month (around 15 bucks).
Why do I pay 40 bucks in LA for a crappy connection ?
because you pay almost ~15% less in taxes. i don't know about you, but i'd rather spend an extra $25 for crappy dsl than pay an extra $10k in taxes...
I've known professors who should have their work overwritten by college freshmen.
How exactly have you "known" this? I'm sorry, but frankly, I've met one too many college kid who thinks they know far more than what they actually do.
not the og poster, but i've known this after going to work in industry (aerospace). it was very obvious after a very short amount of time that many of the professors had never worked in industry, had no ideas how things really work, and couldn't design their way out of a paper bag if their life depended on it.
bs, pawn shops are full of great deals on lenses (and bikes, and DVDs/CDs) because of all the crooks that steal them and the pawn shop owners looking the other way.
maybe back in the day, but i don't think that's the case so much these days, but it depends where you are i suppose; in many places, pawn shops are required to take the seller's information, the items are held for 30 days, and the police check the items against their list of stolen goods.
You don't really think that a pawn shop owner sees a, say, Canon 300 f2.8L and can't figure out that it's worth a lot of money?
depends on the pawn shop. there's a pawn shop in hollywood that specializes in guitars; you walk in with a camera lens, they probably wouldn't even know what the mofo was.;D
1- a new program is expensive, and there's no political desire for it. look at x-33.
a- adds weight and complexity that's not needed all the time
b- why?
c- adds weight and complexity
d- easy to say
e- easy to say
the shuttle when landing, wakes people up, shakes houses, and sets off car alarms. the reason we don't have a have a sst is people won't put up with that on a regular basis. with the shuttle, it happens once in a while, over a relatively land area.
it is absolutely 100% different in upstate new york. i got a few tickets when i was going to school in buffalo, and it was reduced to a $50 parking ticket each time. out here in cali, they are much less likely to do that- the best you're likely to get for a moving viloation is to pay the FULL fine (starts at $180 i believe), plus a $20 admin fee, plus pay for trafic school, then it stays off your record, if you don't get another ticket for 18 months.
umm, no. if you're going to be sarcastic, at least try to be correct. the $100M the article referred to was the CRS budget- they are not congressional staffers. by negligible cost, i'm referring to the staff that all congressmen already have- you request the already completed documents from them, and they do the leg work of getting it to you.
late response, but hey-
when talking about *porting* apps, supporting *additional* services like applescript isn't really in the realm of discussion. but since you brought it up- it's pretty stinkin' easy to add applescriptability to a swing app by implementing a couple classes in the com.apple.eawt package. additionally, gui scripting events are auto-magically supported via System Events.
so there. =D
no, this isn't going to cost the taxpayers more to make these reports available for free. opencrs is apparently being funded by CDT- http://www.cdt.org/. all the additional costs incurred by the taxpayers is from any negligible costs for congressional staffers to disseminate these reports.
if you write a java program w/ portability in mind, there is very little that has to be done to "port" it to mac- swing apps most certainly do cut it in os x, when done right. there's very few reasons why you'd ever need to use the java-cocoa bridge.
check out dslextreme. in LA area, for $55, you can get 3mbps up/768 down. the 6mbps down/768 up is only $60/month for the 1st 6 months, $70 a month thereafter.
To my knowledge, other metadata-based search systems have not had a similar degree of extensibility. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
the indexed search built into windows allows this; by default it searches html, text, outlook, and office files, but you can built interfaces so it can search documents of other types.
yes it does make it easier, because the quiet period doesn't begin when you know when you're going to file. it explicitly begins *when* you file your s1 of sb2 and extends 25 days after the stock starts trading.
I seem to be able to judge distance fine, at least in a car, since much distance judging actually involves using relative sizes, but maybe the same isn't true for flying?
not a good idea to depend on relative sizes for flying; i've heard a story of a flying instructor who would have his students try to land on a rc airplane runway (w/out telling them it wasn't a regular runway). the students, relying on what size they remember the runway "should" be, would invariably think they were much higher than they were when they came in on approach since the runway looked so small. he would also have them try on a much larger runway than most general av runways; they'd think they were much lower than they were, and would be preparing for landing for waaaay too long. =D
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the problem is that you're imagining things- there's nothing in my post to suggest that i equate productivity with good living. i equate productivity with being good for the economy, as does the eu and france, as they're wanting to increase their productivity to be closer to the US.
as far as not believing me about health care, that's your perogative to remain ignorant, but i don't see why you would not believe the quality of my own health care, based on your own poor experiences. analagously, that's like you not believing i could own a car that goes from 0-60 in 4.5 seconds because the only car you've ever driven is a 3 cylinder geo metro that takes 12 seconds. it simply makes no sense, and is a bit asinine.
They do have a "stable" 10 percent unemployment rate, If the US measured unemployment using the same method that Germany and France uses, the US unemployment would be about 9-11% right now. US does not count people for whom unemployment benefits have expired.
france, and most of the eu measures unemployment like the us- those actively looking for a job. but perhaps you'd like to use total employment rates instead? total employment in the us is about 74%, versus 64% in europe. france is right in line with most of the eu.n ational/laenderportraets/france/blank/kennzahlen.h tml h tm
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i didn't say french cars were crappy. i didn't say anything about the overall quality of the health care.
yes, little cars- the 60mpg ones in the post i was responding to.
yes, poor healthcare. it doesn't kick the u.s.'s ass if you have good healthcare in the us. sure, you can have worse here, but i don't. =D
as for the work hours- there's no hating. go back and read the news when france switched to 35 hours. it's because the economy is crap and unemployment is high. don't try to glorify that.
it would be good if everyone's working less hours because of automation- but that's not the case. french productivity (and europe in general) is lower than the united states (check the eu reports), and hours were reduced to try to improve the bad unemployment rate.
us healthcare, the good stuff, is just about the best in the world. and not only have i left the country many times, i wasn't even born here.
it's symetrical- you have the option of getting 50 or 100. availability is currently limited as they've just started rolling it out.
All competing telco companies offering these services, Wanadoo, Free, Neuf, etc, are not subsidized. They are actualy publicly traded and they make very nice profits. The french state does own a minority share of France Telecom, Wanadoo's mother company.
sure, it's a minority share, but just barely. and it only became a minority share last year, after essentially all the costly infrastructure has been built.
they have a 35 hour work week because unemployment is so high they needed to scale back the work hours (and pay) to try to get more people into the work force. i could get a crappy little car here if i wanted to, but i can chose not, without paying an arm and a leg. their healthcare is neither free, nor top quality. i pay less, for better care. *you* need to think about it and quit believing the hype.
I bet you're paying the same or higher prices as you were all those years ago. If you rented a brand new car and paid the same price for 6 years, you'd be a fool. If you rented the same computer for 6 years for the same price, wouldn't you expect the technology to improve, or at least for the economies of scale to make it cheaper? Why not expect more from your Internet provider? i'm in the LA area, and my broadband access (verizon dsl) has gotten faster and cheaper every year since i've had it (3 years). started out at $40/month for 768/128, down to $30 for 1.5/256, and i'm currently at $26.95 for 3M/768. they've sent me an offer to renew at $23.95/month for 3M/768. and that includes 500mb web space, unlimited photo hosting, and some other crap i don't use. additionally, for those coming from dialup, you can currently 768/128 for $14.95 /month.
at one point i was going to go w/ speakeasy, since they were competitive in price, but verizon's prices have come down such a huge amount it's not quite worth it anymore...
cablevision is rolling out 50/100 Mbps in the metro area.
I just came back from a vacation in france, at my parent's house, in a lost "village" in the middle of the alps. There are maybe 4 farms on a square kilometer. What do you know, over there I had 20meg dsl line with wireless hotspots. Their cost: 12 euro a month (around 15 bucks).
Why do I pay 40 bucks in LA for a crappy connection ?
because you pay almost ~15% less in taxes. i don't know about you, but i'd rather spend an extra $25 for crappy dsl than pay an extra $10k in taxes...
I've known professors who should have their work overwritten by college freshmen.
How exactly have you "known" this? I'm sorry, but frankly, I've met one too many college kid who thinks they know far more than what they actually do.
not the og poster, but i've known this after going to work in industry (aerospace). it was very obvious after a very short amount of time that many of the professors had never worked in industry, had no ideas how things really work, and couldn't design their way out of a paper bag if their life depended on it.
bs, pawn shops are full of great deals on lenses (and bikes, and DVDs/CDs) because of all the crooks that steal them and the pawn shop owners looking the other way.
maybe back in the day, but i don't think that's the case so much these days, but it depends where you are i suppose; in many places, pawn shops are required to take the seller's information, the items are held for 30 days, and the police check the items against their list of stolen goods.
You don't really think that a pawn shop owner sees a, say, Canon 300 f2.8L and can't figure out that it's worth a lot of money?
depends on the pawn shop. there's a pawn shop in hollywood that specializes in guitars; you walk in with a camera lens, they probably wouldn't even know what the mofo was. ;D
1- a new program is expensive, and there's no political desire for it. look at x-33. a- adds weight and complexity that's not needed all the time b- why? c- adds weight and complexity d- easy to say e- easy to say
the shuttle when landing, wakes people up, shakes houses, and sets off car alarms. the reason we don't have a have a sst is people won't put up with that on a regular basis. with the shuttle, it happens once in a while, over a relatively land area.
it is absolutely 100% different in upstate new york. i got a few tickets when i was going to school in buffalo, and it was reduced to a $50 parking ticket each time. out here in cali, they are much less likely to do that- the best you're likely to get for a moving viloation is to pay the FULL fine (starts at $180 i believe), plus a $20 admin fee, plus pay for trafic school, then it stays off your record, if you don't get another ticket for 18 months.
umm, no. if you're going to be sarcastic, at least try to be correct. the $100M the article referred to was the CRS budget- they are not congressional staffers. by negligible cost, i'm referring to the staff that all congressmen already have- you request the already completed documents from them, and they do the leg work of getting it to you.
late response, but hey- when talking about *porting* apps, supporting *additional* services like applescript isn't really in the realm of discussion. but since you brought it up- it's pretty stinkin' easy to add applescriptability to a swing app by implementing a couple classes in the com.apple.eawt package. additionally, gui scripting events are auto-magically supported via System Events. so there. =D
no, this isn't going to cost the taxpayers more to make these reports available for free. opencrs is apparently being funded by CDT- http://www.cdt.org/. all the additional costs incurred by the taxpayers is from any negligible costs for congressional staffers to disseminate these reports.
if you write a java program w/ portability in mind, there is very little that has to be done to "port" it to mac- swing apps most certainly do cut it in os x, when done right. there's very few reasons why you'd ever need to use the java-cocoa bridge.
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you can start here for some hints on coding java apps for os x:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Con
the us is doing this type of research as well, and are much further advanced than the japanese.
http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/hyfly.html
check out dslextreme. in LA area, for $55, you can get 3mbps up/768 down. the 6mbps down/768 up is only $60/month for the 1st 6 months, $70 a month thereafter.
To my knowledge, other metadata-based search systems have not had a similar degree of extensibility. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
the indexed search built into windows allows this; by default it searches html, text, outlook, and office files, but you can built interfaces so it can search documents of other types.
yes it does make it easier, because the quiet period doesn't begin when you know when you're going to file. it explicitly begins *when* you file your s1 of sb2 and extends 25 days after the stock starts trading.
I seem to be able to judge distance fine, at least in a car, since much distance judging actually involves using relative sizes, but maybe the same isn't true for flying?
not a good idea to depend on relative sizes for flying; i've heard a story of a flying instructor who would have his students try to land on a rc airplane runway (w/out telling them it wasn't a regular runway). the students, relying on what size they remember the runway "should" be, would invariably think they were much higher than they were when they came in on approach since the runway looked so small. he would also have them try on a much larger runway than most general av runways; they'd think they were much lower than they were, and would be preparing for landing for waaaay too long. =D