"... but I do begrudge people from demanding that the rich pay even more taxes.'
Warren Buffett himself says that the rich do NOT pay enough taxes, and that the taxes on the rich should be higher.
"Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
"Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent."
According to reports (I'll find out later today), the unibody aluminum constructions is extremely sturdy. I mean, you don't get much sturdier than machining a computer out of a solid block of metal.
Sorry, but if you can get my app in front of 50 million Mac owners, and handle application delivery AND payment processing...
I will GLADLY give you 30% of the action.
Do you have ANY clue whatsoever what it takes in marketing and advertising costs alone to even get a dozen people a month to visit a website selling some OS X something-or-other?
People don't get it. UI animations -- done correctly -- aren't just bling. They tell people what happened, where things went, and where they're at in the application. The classic example is minimizing a window to an icon in the dock. The zooming rects reinforce what happened, where the window went, and where to find it again.
On the iPhone such things are implemented as GPU effects, with a totally insignificant impact on battery life. If you're on Android, firing up the 3G radios for a single background check on Twitter posts burns through more power than all the daily UI animations on your phone combined.
And if your battery life is really that bad, then buy a better phone next time...
To me much of that rant smacks of reflexive counter-culture elitism, in that if it's popular, then it can't be any good.
It might not have been the "best" language possible, but for 95% of the use cases it was good enough. You don't get to be popular if you fail to do what the majority of people want done.
He states, "In Stroustrop's mind, making C++ compatible with C was instrumental, crucial to its success." And then tells you why it's a bad thing.
But, as someone who actually lived through that time frame, I'm here to tell you that he misses the point completely. C++ compatibility was in fact instrumental to it's success.
Why? Because C++ was originally a preprocessor that converted everything to C, and then fed the C code to the C compiler. And almost EVERY platform had a C compiler. By making it compatible, he got many C-language adherents to try it, and he got it on every platform so they could do so.
Cable and DSL home networks shouldn't be RUNNING mail servers. If we blocked the ports for home mail servers altogether, it would eliminate half the reason for creating botnets in the first place.
Face it. If you're a Verizon customer, a Sprint customer, or a T-Mobile customer, then your only smart phone choice is... Android.
Windows 7 phones are still vaporware, and no one wants the soon to be unsupported Windows 6.5. Blackberry failed to up their game significantly, and it shows. Palm's WebOS was a non-starter.
So what's left on the shelf? Android.
The way I see it, the majority of the people who're buying Android aren't "choosing" Android.
Walk into a Verizon store, or Sprint store, or T-Mobile store, and the only viable options available are Android phones. Faced with no real choice, customers examine a couple of nearly identical plastic phones for a few minutes, find the same set of features on each... and then proceed to buy the cheapest one.
Hence Android's sales growth.
What will tell the tail is the day AT&T loses its exclusivity agreement, and the iPhone hits Verizon...
"What if the movie, the song or the game were so awfully bad that the pirate wasn't even able (or willing) to consume the material?"
You're telling me that in the age of Twitter and Facebook and SMS and with a quadrillion internet review sites of one kind or another, with posted product ratings and comments, that today's poor little defenseless pirate has no clue whatsoever that a given movie, song, or game sucks donkey balls?
3Par has technology and patents on "light provisioning" systems, that enables disk space to be allocated only when applications need capacity, greatly reducing IT management costs. Think of it as storage on a just-enough and just-in-time basis.
But basically it's because ex-CEO Hurd killed HP's R&D budget. With no R&D, HP is attempting to buy its way into the next big thing.
Hurd deserved to go. Killing off R&D to the point where you have to spend billions buying your way back into the game smacks of a certain lack of foresight and intelligence, does it not?
Just got out the scale. The "brick" weighs 2.4 ozs. My incase case weighs 4.5 ozs. With the iPad, that's two pounds even, or 0.9kg, or less than half your assumed weight of 2kg. Please try again.
And actually, the case should be a wash, since I doubt you're going to throw a Kindle around in your pack naked. (And if the pack is padded enough to protect the Kindle, it can protect the iPad.) For that matter, if I didn't mind a slightly longer recharge time, I could use the iPhone's USB charger when needed, and leave the "fat" brick at home completely. Bingo. 1.5lbs, even.
Besides, what idiot would go on a week long trip without a charger, even for a Kindle? Going to "assume" you have a full charge? Kind of suck to arrive and find out you forgot to recharge your reader before you left, wouldn't it? What it you decide to stay longer? Or if you're delayed?
Anyway, the combined number is 0.9kg. Not two. You were wrong. Deal with it.
That's why the trackpad with multitouch is superior. You're not pressing down firmly with your fingers while trying to perform precise wrist motions at the same time.
Gentle taps, touches, and swipes are all you need.
There was probably some guy like you shaking his head thirty years ago. "Mice? Sorry, I tried one and it's totally useless. You always have to take your hand off the keyboard to do anything at all."
"Not to mention how sore your hand will get mashing buttons and dragging it around your desktop."
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"... but I do begrudge people from demanding that the rich pay even more taxes.'
Warren Buffett himself says that the rich do NOT pay enough taxes, and that the taxes on the rich should be higher.
"Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
"Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece
"Its a damn netbook, and not even a full year after Steve claimed at the iPad keynote that netbooks have no use..."
No, he said, and I quote, "Most netbooks are just cheap laptops".
According to reports (I'll find out later today), the unibody aluminum constructions is extremely sturdy. I mean, you don't get much sturdier than machining a computer out of a solid block of metal.
Sorry, but if you can get my app in front of 50 million Mac owners, and handle application delivery AND payment processing...
I will GLADLY give you 30% of the action.
Do you have ANY clue whatsoever what it takes in marketing and advertising costs alone to even get a dozen people a month to visit a website selling some OS X something-or-other?
This is a BARGIN.
Do you idiots not understand how retail product distribution works?
If you can get my app in front of 50 million Mac owners, and handle application delivery AND payment processing...
I will GLADLY give you 30% of the action.
If you're all that, perhaps I can interest you in Microsoft's new MS-DOS Command Line phone?
No graphics whatsoever.
People don't get it. UI animations -- done correctly -- aren't just bling. They tell people what happened, where things went, and where they're at in the application. The classic example is minimizing a window to an icon in the dock. The zooming rects reinforce what happened, where the window went, and where to find it again.
On the iPhone such things are implemented as GPU effects, with a totally insignificant impact on battery life. If you're on Android, firing up the 3G radios for a single background check on Twitter posts burns through more power than all the daily UI animations on your phone combined.
And if your battery life is really that bad, then buy a better phone next time...
To me much of that rant smacks of reflexive counter-culture elitism, in that if it's popular, then it can't be any good.
It might not have been the "best" language possible, but for 95% of the use cases it was good enough. You don't get to be popular if you fail to do what the majority of people want done.
So the definition of "open" is simply the ability to download and build a rather large chunk of code completely written by someone else???
Because that's all that single tweet is doing...
The "Why C++ sucks" author is an idiot.
He states, "In Stroustrop's mind, making C++ compatible with C was instrumental, crucial to its success." And then tells you why it's a bad thing.
But, as someone who actually lived through that time frame, I'm here to tell you that he misses the point completely. C++ compatibility was in fact instrumental to it's success.
Why? Because C++ was originally a preprocessor that converted everything to C, and then fed the C code to the C compiler. And almost EVERY platform had a C compiler. By making it compatible, he got many C-language adherents to try it, and he got it on every platform so they could do so.
How about when systems are hacked and they crash due to bad pointer manipulation and buffer overruns... and people die?
Performance isn't everything.
First, simply walking down a checklist tells you nothing about how WELL those features are implemented.
Second, it appears that the Confluence entry is only about 58% complete. Thus, many of the comparisons made assume that Plone wins by default.
There was a study that showed how "stupid" people are often too stupid to know that they're stupid.
And since stupidity is not a single point on a line, but a continuum... I'd try not to be so condescending, if I were you. (grin)
Exactly. Home accounts shouldn't be running servers that are accepting incoming requests. Ever. Block them,
Cable and DSL home networks shouldn't be RUNNING mail servers. If we blocked the ports for home mail servers altogether, it would eliminate half the reason for creating botnets in the first place.
Face it. If you're a Verizon customer, a Sprint customer, or a T-Mobile customer, then your only smart phone choice is... Android.
Windows 7 phones are still vaporware, and no one wants the soon to be unsupported Windows 6.5. Blackberry failed to up their game significantly, and it shows. Palm's WebOS was a non-starter.
So what's left on the shelf? Android.
The way I see it, the majority of the people who're buying Android aren't "choosing" Android.
Walk into a Verizon store, or Sprint store, or T-Mobile store, and the only viable options available are Android phones. Faced with no real choice, customers examine a couple of nearly identical plastic phones for a few minutes, find the same set of features on each... and then proceed to buy the cheapest one.
Hence Android's sales growth.
What will tell the tail is the day AT&T loses its exclusivity agreement, and the iPhone hits Verizon...
"What if the movie, the song or the game were so awfully bad that the pirate wasn't even able (or willing) to consume the material?"
You're telling me that in the age of Twitter and Facebook and SMS and with a quadrillion internet review sites of one kind or another, with posted product ratings and comments, that today's poor little defenseless pirate has no clue whatsoever that a given movie, song, or game sucks donkey balls?
Please. Just... please.
"That said, if this is the work of well-funded terrorists, they are probably well funded enough to have access to the Windows source code. "
So in other words, having source access made the problem worse....
Ummm... the law would apply to Zune drones and Android phone-Pandora-streamning-zelots as well.
Even if there are fewer of them.... (ducks)
3Par has technology and patents on "light provisioning" systems, that enables disk space to be allocated only when applications need capacity, greatly reducing IT management costs. Think of it as storage on a just-enough and just-in-time basis.
But basically it's because ex-CEO Hurd killed HP's R&D budget. With no R&D, HP is attempting to buy its way into the next big thing.
Hurd deserved to go. Killing off R&D to the point where you have to spend billions buying your way back into the game smacks of a certain lack of foresight and intelligence, does it not?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/29/behind-the-bidding-war-the-real-reasons-why-hp-and-dell-are-so-desperate-for-3par/?
VROOM VROOM? No. We're going back even further, and installing speakers on all motorized vehicles.
The sound?
Clippity-clop, Clippity-clop!
Uh, you call 90 degrees with 98% humidity nice???????
Just got out the scale. The "brick" weighs 2.4 ozs. My incase case weighs 4.5 ozs. With the iPad, that's two pounds even, or 0.9kg, or less than half your assumed weight of 2kg. Please try again.
And actually, the case should be a wash, since I doubt you're going to throw a Kindle around in your pack naked. (And if the pack is padded enough to protect the Kindle, it can protect the iPad.) For that matter, if I didn't mind a slightly longer recharge time, I could use the iPhone's USB charger when needed, and leave the "fat" brick at home completely. Bingo. 1.5lbs, even.
Besides, what idiot would go on a week long trip without a charger, even for a Kindle? Going to "assume" you have a full charge? Kind of suck to arrive and find out you forgot to recharge your reader before you left, wouldn't it? What it you decide to stay longer? Or if you're delayed?
Anyway, the combined number is 0.9kg. Not two. You were wrong. Deal with it.
That's why the trackpad with multitouch is superior. You're not pressing down firmly with your fingers while trying to perform precise wrist motions at the same time.
Gentle taps, touches, and swipes are all you need.
Your hand will get sore? You're kidding,right?
There was probably some guy like you shaking his head thirty years ago. "Mice? Sorry, I tried one and it's totally useless. You always have to take your hand off the keyboard to do anything at all."
"Not to mention how sore your hand will get mashing buttons and dragging it around your desktop."