I live in a nice part of California (2 miles from the coast), and the people who own $800k houses here are generally the upper class. Certainly the average person does not own such a house, or the average household net worth in California would be much higher than it is.
If she enabled Buzz, I don't see it as necessarily the case that she's misinterpreting it. When I enabled Buzz, instantly I was following 8 people, and 7 of those people were following me back, based on the fact that we'd email a bunch. As I read it, that's what she thinks happened--- that Google had her ex-husband auto-follow her, because they'd exchanged emails. Unlike Facebook, you don't have to approve followers, either. And, your Google Reader comments are by default visible to your followers, something I also didn't realize until one of those 7 followers of mine commented on a post of mine.
Now in my case those 7 auto-followers are people I actually know and don't object to following me, and I had nothing particularly private in my Google Reader comments, but it was still quite surprising and felt a bit weird that it was all done automatically. I would've felt much more comfortable if Google used email history to suggest contacts, but I still had to approve people individually before they could get access to my stuff. It'd also be nice if it asked me explicitly if I wanted my Google Reader comments shared over Buzz.
That I can agree with, but it can be solved by just deferring the taxes until they realize the gains. When they sell the property, any profits they make ($selling_price - $purchase_price) should go to pay the deferred back taxes.
The result we currently have is that rich kids inheriting mansions from their parents: 1) don't have to pay property taxes on them; but 2) get to keep the windfall profits when they sell.
It's a start, but not much of one. California needs to bring its prison spending down to reasonable levels, which requires cutting at least 30% or so of current spending.
Three Strikes is indeed the problem: it has cost California over $50 billion so far.
It also has the highest income taxes and state taxes.
According to the anti-tax folks over at the Tax Foundation (who might be biased, but I don't think they have a particular reason to be on the subject of rankings), California actually ranks 5th in income tax, collecting $1,465 per person. The highest is Connecticut's $1,811 (New York, Massachusetts, and Oregon are the three other higher-taxing states). It ranks even lower in tax rates--- it makes it up to 5th place mostly because of its high per-capita income, rather than because of particularly high rates.
In many cases, the Democratic representatives aren't permitted to cut spending. For example, many would love to shrink the prison population, but Three Strikes was passed by voter initiative, so can't be overturned by the legislature.
Depending on the language and domain, one way to speed up learning the structure can be to see if you can match it to some set of programming idioms, and then read up on those idioms if it's not a style of programming you're familiar with. For example, if it's C++, can you figure out by looking at the code's layout whether it was written by someone big into C++ design patterns? If so, it might be easier to reverse-engineer what it's doing if you read a C++ design-patterns book, and then match large segments of the code to "oh it's just implementing [pattern]". In some languages there are 3-4 main styles of programming, and figuring out which of them the author adhered to, and then reading something up on that idiom, can really speed things up.
For apps to work well in the Skylight UI I'd expect they'd have to be customized for it, wouldn't they? I can't imagine it'd be that enjoyable to run a normal GNOME or KDE app with a bunch of menus and checkboxes and whatnot on a tablet.
It's possibly worth noting that Google takes a pretty expansive view of a historical/educational exception to their "hate speech" restriction as well, in contrast to some countries. For example, there are plenty of Nazi propaganda videos up on YouTube.
Over hill, over dale, did the black Raven go. Many autumns, many springs Travelled he with wandering wings: Many summers, many winters--- I can't tell half his adventures.
At length he came back, and with him a She, And the acorn was grown to a tall oak tree. They built them a nest in the topmost bough, And young ones they had, and were happy enow. But soon came a woodman in leathern guise, His brow, like a pent-house, hung over his eyes. He'd an axe in his hand, not a word he spoke, But with many a hem! and a sturdy stroke, At length he brought down the poor Raven's own oak. His young ones were killed; for they could not depart, And their mother did die of a broken heart.
Not a lot of people currently own e-book readers, but it's a rapidly growing market, so that can be considered one of the existing markets the iPad is entering. I think that was actually true with the iPod too: there was an existing portable MP3-player market, but it was much smaller. Stuff like the Creative NOMAD never really caught on among the non-techie public the way the iPod did.
In a lot of ways I think Apple is hoping to basically repeat the iPod's success, by getting in to a market that is almost on the cusp of being established but still a bit immature, and pushing it to mainstream success, in the process getting themselves into a dominant market position. We'll see, I suppose.
I've toyed with this on and off, but using Linux on a PowerBook with a one-button trackpad isn't that pleasant. OSX is designed around an expectation of one button, but Linux really expects two, preferably three. For a desktop you'd just buy a new mouse, of course, but for a laptop the workarounds are more clunky--- one common one seems to be binding F12 to right-click.
For some of the drawings that might be the case, but the vast majority are short snippets of text that probably aren't copyrightable at all. If anything's copyrightable, it might be the photograph, which is what the license is releasing as CC.
Well, some of these are introduced through deliberate organized campaigns to get funny and/or offensive things to show up as autocompletes for common terms. Not Google's fault per se in that case either, but it does mean that Google's presenting the user with not-very-useful information, as they've failed to filter out ungenuine searches.
I don't see why a still from the movie that consists of nothing except a verbatim copy of the original photograph wouldn't be in the public domain. If the movie itself has creative arrangement it may be copyrightable as a work, but that doesn't mean that any subsidiary parts of the movie that were drawn from the public domain magically get a new copyright as part of the new work.
For example, if I quote a public-domain poem in a new novel, the entire work (novel+poem) is copyrighted, but anyone may extract that poem from my novel and use it without my permission.
I don't find it particularly disturbing. I was pointing out the examples for the opposite reason--- to suggest that "[Nationality] Scientists" is not a particularly unusual phrase, contrary to the claims of the poster I was replying to.
Salt and anti-freeze just have typical freezing-point depression; there's no way to use them to produce a situation where water that is a stable liquid at one temperature will turn solid if you increase the temperature. The situation in this experiment is that water that's liquid at -17 C will freeze as you head it up towards -7 C.
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With safesearch off, I'm not quite sure these are the right results...
I live in a nice part of California (2 miles from the coast), and the people who own $800k houses here are generally the upper class. Certainly the average person does not own such a house, or the average household net worth in California would be much higher than it is.
If she enabled Buzz, I don't see it as necessarily the case that she's misinterpreting it. When I enabled Buzz, instantly I was following 8 people, and 7 of those people were following me back, based on the fact that we'd email a bunch. As I read it, that's what she thinks happened--- that Google had her ex-husband auto-follow her, because they'd exchanged emails. Unlike Facebook, you don't have to approve followers, either. And, your Google Reader comments are by default visible to your followers, something I also didn't realize until one of those 7 followers of mine commented on a post of mine.
Now in my case those 7 auto-followers are people I actually know and don't object to following me, and I had nothing particularly private in my Google Reader comments, but it was still quite surprising and felt a bit weird that it was all done automatically. I would've felt much more comfortable if Google used email history to suggest contacts, but I still had to approve people individually before they could get access to my stuff. It'd also be nice if it asked me explicitly if I wanted my Google Reader comments shared over Buzz.
It's the Tax Foundation's numbers, not mine. Are they lying? Or could your experience not be the average experience?
Ah, a millionaire complaining about class war, how quaint.
That I can agree with, but it can be solved by just deferring the taxes until they realize the gains. When they sell the property, any profits they make ($selling_price - $purchase_price) should go to pay the deferred back taxes.
The result we currently have is that rich kids inheriting mansions from their parents: 1) don't have to pay property taxes on them; but 2) get to keep the windfall profits when they sell.
It's a start, but not much of one. California needs to bring its prison spending down to reasonable levels, which requires cutting at least 30% or so of current spending.
Three Strikes is indeed the problem: it has cost California over $50 billion so far.
According to the anti-tax folks over at the Tax Foundation (who might be biased, but I don't think they have a particular reason to be on the subject of rankings), California actually ranks 5th in income tax, collecting $1,465 per person. The highest is Connecticut's $1,811 (New York, Massachusetts, and Oregon are the three other higher-taxing states). It ranks even lower in tax rates--- it makes it up to 5th place mostly because of its high per-capita income, rather than because of particularly high rates.
In many cases, the Democratic representatives aren't permitted to cut spending. For example, many would love to shrink the prison population, but Three Strikes was passed by voter initiative, so can't be overturned by the legislature.
Hybrid-drivetrain racecar with a flywheel sounds a lot like this 1994 car.
Depending on the language and domain, one way to speed up learning the structure can be to see if you can match it to some set of programming idioms, and then read up on those idioms if it's not a style of programming you're familiar with. For example, if it's C++, can you figure out by looking at the code's layout whether it was written by someone big into C++ design patterns? If so, it might be easier to reverse-engineer what it's doing if you read a C++ design-patterns book, and then match large segments of the code to "oh it's just implementing [pattern]". In some languages there are 3-4 main styles of programming, and figuring out which of them the author adhered to, and then reading something up on that idiom, can really speed things up.
For apps to work well in the Skylight UI I'd expect they'd have to be customized for it, wouldn't they? I can't imagine it'd be that enjoyable to run a normal GNOME or KDE app with a bunch of menus and checkboxes and whatnot on a tablet.
It's possibly worth noting that Google takes a pretty expansive view of a historical/educational exception to their "hate speech" restriction as well, in contrast to some countries. For example, there are plenty of Nazi propaganda videos up on YouTube.
Over hill, over dale, did the black Raven go.
Many autumns, many springs
Travelled he with wandering wings:
Many summers, many winters---
I can't tell half his adventures.
At length he came back, and with him a She,
And the acorn was grown to a tall oak tree.
They built them a nest in the topmost bough,
And young ones they had, and were happy enow.
But soon came a woodman in leathern guise,
His brow, like a pent-house, hung over his eyes.
He'd an axe in his hand, not a word he spoke,
But with many a hem! and a sturdy stroke,
At length he brought down the poor Raven's own oak.
His young ones were killed; for they could not depart,
And their mother did die of a broken heart.
Not a lot of people currently own e-book readers, but it's a rapidly growing market, so that can be considered one of the existing markets the iPad is entering. I think that was actually true with the iPod too: there was an existing portable MP3-player market, but it was much smaller. Stuff like the Creative NOMAD never really caught on among the non-techie public the way the iPod did.
In a lot of ways I think Apple is hoping to basically repeat the iPod's success, by getting in to a market that is almost on the cusp of being established but still a bit immature, and pushing it to mainstream success, in the process getting themselves into a dominant market position. We'll see, I suppose.
Thank you AC for your post, for I feel I've now understood something deep about the universe.
I've toyed with this on and off, but using Linux on a PowerBook with a one-button trackpad isn't that pleasant. OSX is designed around an expectation of one button, but Linux really expects two, preferably three. For a desktop you'd just buy a new mouse, of course, but for a laptop the workarounds are more clunky--- one common one seems to be binding F12 to right-click.
For some of the drawings that might be the case, but the vast majority are short snippets of text that probably aren't copyrightable at all. If anything's copyrightable, it might be the photograph, which is what the license is releasing as CC.
I really do get a similar result for your 3rd example:
Well, some of these are introduced through deliberate organized campaigns to get funny and/or offensive things to show up as autocompletes for common terms. Not Google's fault per se in that case either, but it does mean that Google's presenting the user with not-very-useful information, as they've failed to filter out ungenuine searches.
It seems that at least as well as anyone can estimate, the current population really is about 5% of the total humans who've ever lived.
I don't see why a still from the movie that consists of nothing except a verbatim copy of the original photograph wouldn't be in the public domain. If the movie itself has creative arrangement it may be copyrightable as a work, but that doesn't mean that any subsidiary parts of the movie that were drawn from the public domain magically get a new copyright as part of the new work.
For example, if I quote a public-domain poem in a new novel, the entire work (novel+poem) is copyrighted, but anyone may extract that poem from my novel and use it without my permission.
I don't find it particularly disturbing. I was pointing out the examples for the opposite reason--- to suggest that "[Nationality] Scientists" is not a particularly unusual phrase, contrary to the claims of the poster I was replying to.
Slashdot headlines seem to do it now and then:
Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth
French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ
British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect
German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken
Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data
Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon
etc.
Salt and anti-freeze just have typical freezing-point depression; there's no way to use them to produce a situation where water that is a stable liquid at one temperature will turn solid if you increase the temperature. The situation in this experiment is that water that's liquid at -17 C will freeze as you head it up towards -7 C.