Besides, the gasoline tax is already a mileage tax. It has the added bonus of being a bigger burden on those who drive low efficiency vehicles.
The problems with a blind gasoline taxes are that it might hurt the poor people a lot more since they potentially spend a much larger portion of the income on gasoline, with mileage based approach you can dole out a basic allowance to everyone and then tax the people who choose to drive more than n miles. Factoring in the efficiency is difficult but would make for a better approach
Actually, a personal cap and trade system where everyone gets a quota is probably optimal - so no more Prius driving celebs with 6000 sq feet mansions (or at least they would have to pay for it). This system would let people decide what they value most - I rather live far from work but am willing to spend the money on an efficient home/car so be it: I rather drive my Hummer 2 miles to work, that's OK too: I rather live in a mansion and drive a hummer, I can as long as I buy the Tax credits from someone else at the market rate.
My family owns a couple miles of private dirt roads. You're going to tax me for driving on my own road?
No, Taxing you would not be appropriate as long as you can ensure that your C02 emissions do not damage anyone else, but in the real world they do. The environment is a public good in question not the land you own.
The problems with a blind gasoline taxes are that it might hurt the poor people a lot more since they potentially spend a much larger portion of the income on gasoline, with mileage based approach you can dole out a basic allowance to everyone and then tax the people who choose to drive more than n miles.
It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
Quite a few (more than most people imagine anyway) Algo trading systems run without any humans needing to confirm trades.
Humans do monitor what the systems are doing but they do not confirm every order, given the volume that would be impossible, too slow and/or too expensive.
The latency matters enough that people have been known to put the trading systems physically as close to the order
processing back end as they can often collocating at an investment bank as opposed to their own data centers.
I wonder if out of focus or blue detection methods will give you a metric which varies with the level of jpeg artifcats, after all the jpeg artifacts should make it more difficult to do things like edge detections etc which are the same the things that made more difficult by blurry and out of focus images
A google search for blur detection should bring up things that you can try, Here is series of posts that to do a good job of explaining some of the work involved
I've been saying for years that it would be a great idea for public schools to invest in the production of open-source-style licensed textbooks.
This is very similar to how it is done in India.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is charged with the task of creating texts for grades 1 to 12. I remember the books as being fairly high quality in terms of content but a bit dry as compared to the "imported" text books. You can download pdf's of the most of the books from NCERT's web site.
Forget the kernel -- it's the compiler that is the key. Didn't someone show years ago how code could be inserted into a compiler and once it was there, there was no way to remove it -- apart from going back through the archives and finding a sufficiently old and uninfected compiler?
The distinct advantage of pre compilation is a boon and a bane and actually the pre compilation is helpful ONLY for cases where the stored procedure paramters take typical well distributed values - since most RDBM's create the query plan the first time the SP is executed.
If your SP's take values that vary a lot E.g. a date range that might be as wide as few minutes to a few years you might be better of from a performance standpoint by recompiling the sp each time it is executed.
One BIG benifit of sp is security - you can typically give execute rights to stored procedures without giving rights to the underlying objects.
I often resort to SQL String creation for complex search type screens which have a bazillion options - since the dynamic SQL gives better performance than a complex SP with a varying number of parameters but for simple create, update and delete type of stuff i usually stick to sps
Conclusion - Like everything in life you cannot generalize one approach to be better than the other
Except for a few select Microsoft sites which use it, (You really have the same thing for AOL), no site I have visited in the past 2 years has used Microsoft Passport (tm).
Hmm.... looks like you have not visited eBay
recently
I totally agree statecharts is the way to go for designing UI with even a little complexity.
David Harels's (the father of statecharts)original paper [pdf]on statecharts is very nice and concise intro to state charts and since state charts are now a part of UML a lot of UML books cover the semantics of designing with statecharts as well.
What? That's the one thing just about everyone knowledgeable agrees Microsoft does well. I mean, have you noticed any shortage of third-party Microsoft apps?
In "outside programmers have long complained that Microsoft makes it hard for them to create software compatible with Windows-based computers" IMHO what they meant was programmers developing software for others operating systems have complained that M$ makes it hard for them to create software compatible (interoperate would have been a better choice) with windoze not the developers developing for windoze
Yes, technically my computer is "capable" of reading a Microsoft Word Document. I could go out and buy a copy of Office XP for $400 dollars, or whatever it costs nowadays.
Just a gentle reminder that word documents can be read without using MS Word (or even openoffice!)
Anybody can download the word viewer from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwr 32.aspx for free
we use the Remote Insight Board lights out edition - for remote management of proliant servers..I belive it retails for around 500 bucks. But each server needs its own card.
3) your url should look something like http://www.priceline.com/travel/airlines/lang/en-u s/itinerary.asp?session_key=240011AC670111AC200207 1201041783d6c0318095
4) Change itinerary in itinerary.asp to Debug
your url will look something like http://tickets.priceline.com/travel/airlines/lang/ en-us/debug.asp?session_key=240011AC670111AC200207 1201041783d6c0318095
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No the verizon version would be a separate phone. From: http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?answer=166507 "The Nexus One for Verizon will not be a GSM device, so it will not be compatible with T-Mobile, AT&T, or other GSM networks."
Besides, the gasoline tax is already a mileage tax. It has the added bonus of being a bigger burden on those who drive low efficiency vehicles.
The problems with a blind gasoline taxes are that it might hurt the poor people a lot more since they potentially spend a much larger portion of the income on gasoline, with mileage based approach you can dole out a basic allowance to everyone and then tax the people who choose to drive more than n miles. Factoring in the efficiency is difficult but would make for a better approach
Actually, a personal cap and trade system where everyone gets a quota is probably optimal - so no more Prius driving celebs with 6000 sq feet mansions (or at least they would have to pay for it). This system would let people decide what they value most - I rather live far from work but am willing to spend the money on an efficient home/car so be it: I rather drive my Hummer 2 miles to work, that's OK too: I rather live in a mansion and drive a hummer, I can as long as I buy the Tax credits from someone else at the market rate.
My family owns a couple miles of private dirt roads. You're going to tax me for driving on my own road?
No, Taxing you would not be appropriate as long as you can ensure that your C02 emissions do not damage anyone else, but in the real world they do. The environment is a public good in question not the land you own.
The problems with a blind gasoline taxes are that it might hurt the poor people a lot more since they potentially spend a much larger portion of the income on gasoline, with mileage based approach you can dole out a basic allowance to everyone and then tax the people who choose to drive more than n miles.
It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
Quite a few (more than most people imagine anyway) Algo trading systems run without any humans needing to confirm trades.
Humans do monitor what the systems are doing but they do not confirm every order, given the volume that would be impossible, too slow and/or too expensive.
The latency matters enough that people have been known to put the trading systems physically as close to the order processing back end as they can often collocating at an investment bank as opposed to their own data centers.
I have paired up remotely using VNC to share the editor session, and skype for the voice part. It works surprisingly well.
I wonder if out of focus or blue detection methods will give you a metric which varies with the level of jpeg artifcats, after all the jpeg artifacts should make it more difficult to do things like edge detections etc which are the same the things that made more difficult by blurry and out of focus images
A google search for blur detection should bring up things that you can try, Here is series of posts that to do a good job of explaining some of the work involved
The actual complain text can be found here. It is surprisingly free of legalease and you can skim over it fairly quick.
PS: I love the fact that this story shows a big Rosetta Stone ad being served by google!
I've been saying for years that it would be a great idea for public schools to invest in the production of open-source-style licensed textbooks.
This is very similar to how it is done in India. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is charged with the task of creating texts for grades 1 to 12. I remember the books as being fairly high quality in terms of content but a bit dry as compared to the "imported" text books. You can download pdf's of the most of the books from NCERT's web site.
Yes Ken Thompson did - The Thompson hack
. More programmers need to know about and understand basic backdoor issues.
I'll go you one better - I once had to maintain Perl code.
Oh yeah? I had to scale a Ruby on Rails application.
Oh Yeah? I once had to compile a Haskell program.
This hack is like using a camcorder to circumvent macrovisoin by recording your tv's output. doable but not worth it.
128 kbps is bad enough when listening through a half decent stereo can't imagine what this version sound like
The distinct advantage of pre compilation is a boon and a bane and actually the pre compilation is helpful ONLY for cases where the stored procedure paramters take typical well distributed values - since most RDBM's create the query plan the first time the SP is executed.
If your SP's take values that vary a lot E.g. a date range that might be as wide as few minutes to a few years you might be better of from a performance standpoint by recompiling the sp each time it is executed.
One BIG benifit of sp is security - you can typically give execute rights to stored procedures without giving rights to the underlying objects.
I often resort to SQL String creation for complex search type screens which have a bazillion options - since the dynamic SQL gives better performance than a complex SP with a varying number of parameters but for simple create, update and delete type of stuff i usually stick to sps
Conclusion - Like everything in life you cannot generalize one approach to be better than the other
TomsNotWorking.com
Except for a few select Microsoft sites which use it, (You really have the same thing for AOL), no site I have visited in the past 2 years has used Microsoft Passport (tm).
Hmmon the same subject is http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory .cfm?Story_ID=1454436
I totally agree statecharts is the way to go for designing UI with even a little complexity. David Harels's (the father of statecharts)original paper [pdf]on statecharts is very nice and concise intro to state charts and since state charts are now a part of UML a lot of UML books cover the semantics of designing with statecharts as well.
Is the 'some sort of Windows XP' he is talking about windows XP Media Center Edition
if 8 plans have failed why would any body in the right mind expect the the 9th to work...
In "outside programmers have long complained that Microsoft makes it hard for them to create software compatible with Windows-based computers" IMHO what they meant was programmers developing software for others operating systems have complained that M$ makes it hard for them to create software compatible (interoperate would have been a better choice) with windoze not the developers developing for windoze
So you mean apart from 2 chicks at the same time
do 2 chicks at the same time
Yes, technically my computer is "capable" of reading a Microsoft Word Document. I could go out and buy a copy of Office XP for $400 dollars, or whatever it costs nowadays.
Just a gentle reminder that word documents can be read without using MS Word (or even openoffice!)
Anybody can download the word viewer from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwwe use the Remote Insight Board lights out edition - for remote management of proliant servers..I belive it retails for around 500 bucks. But each server needs its own card.
1) goto to www.PriceLine.com
2) Click on airline tickets
3) your url should look something like http://www.priceline.com/travel/airlines/lang/en-u s/itinerary.asp?session_key=240011AC670111AC200207 1201041783d6c0318095
4) Change itinerary in itinerary.asp to Debug your url will look something like http://tickets.priceline.com/travel/airlines/lang/ en-us/debug.asp?session_key=240011AC670111AC200207 1201041783d6c0318095
Welcom to the the priceline debug page!