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  1. Uh, if you want the kids paying attention to you, I'd avoid animations. If you want them to stare at the screen while your words slide past them, by all means, use animation.

  2. I was taking about personal tax rates. I am an economist so i'd prefer to have zero corporate tax and simply increase personal tax rates to compensate. The people I would like to increase it on is the rich--because that is where the money is.

  3. Wrong. There is almost no evidence that people change their labor market supply in response to taxes. They will move money around if you change the tax system (e.g. owners will pay themselves more this year if taxes go up next year) but they don't change their actual work.

    Admittedly, at 100% taxes you have problems. But when taxes were 92% prior to Kennedy the ultra rich were asked if they would work more or less if taxes were increased (yes, increased from 92%) and they answered more. So, we've got some headroom.

  4. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does this upset you so? It's a crap OS. MS made a fine OS in Windows 2k and XP. Other than that they have made garbage.

  5. One line, surgically removed from its context? Who knows.

    Nope, the post gave you the context there. I didn't quote so you could read as much surrounding it as you wanted. Plenty of context. If you want more, the clip can be found.

    Give me your most charitable interpretation of this quote, "A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society." what might that mean, again, not what does it mean, but what might it mean that isn't xenophobic.

    Also, please do not confuse nation of origin with citizenship--they are different.

  6. What do you suppose he meant?

  7. Read this article starting from, "During their conversations, there were some moments on-air when Trump and Bannon disagreed. Though not many." to see Bannon saying that Asians shouldn't be in charge of companies.

  8. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    You're doing something if you require a reinstall of Windows every 18 months.

    using the wrong OS?

    The hundreds of millions of us who never reinstall it would agree.

    you surveyed them?

    My stupid apple problem absolutely annoys me. But I consider 1 reinstall over 10 years to be much better than once every 18 months.

    Look, I'm a user, I have these problems, it's not like you can somehow say it's not real.

  9. Re:Sounds like bullshit on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    *except superconductors

  10. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't "bodge settings", or, if I am, windows is pretty worthless--I basically use it and all my gear vanilla. I've also never had issues with OS X (well, there was the one reinstall, but that really was a stupid Apple problem) or linux machines (neither of which I use anything close to vanilla). I'm a developer, so my Windows laptops cost about $1500, plus the dock and memory if it isn't compatible with the previous machine. But they keep changing models so I need to get two new docks with my three new machines.

    As for breaking machines, yeah, I'd rather not. I actually seriously baby the Windows machines and they still break. Ideally the fact that I baby them would be included in a TCO calculation. I use the Apple to hammer nails and stuff while the Windows machines are treated all dainty like--it's pathetic.

  11. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on my second android. The first one was a moto G, it lasted 2 years. It was dropping calls like mad / not receiving incoming calls and texts (at some point it basically always went straight to VM) so I upgraded to a newer OS. It stopped dropping calls and started working well for texts. But, it was so slow it was basically like not having a smart phone. The current phone (a 5X) has been better but is not slughis and crashes out of nowhere. I never install apps from anywhere but the play store, so if it is an app causing this then I think blaming google makes a lot of sense. I'm on the same iPhone I've been on for four years and it is as snappy as the day I got it.

    My windows machines require a reinstall of the OS about every 18 months and die all of the time. And I'm on my third in 5 years because the physically break when I drop them--though this last one simply because unresponsive. I have dropped my 8 year old mac many more times from much higher places / onto harder landing spots and it barely shows a scratch. I've only reinstalled the Mac OS once since switching to OS X, and that is across several machines--the Mac OS lets you move all your files and OS install when you move Macs.

    Yeah, TCO has been way lower for me on the Apple products.

  12. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 2

    Keep telling yourself that. My TCO is way lower on my mac laptop and iPhone while my productivity is higher then on my android phone and windows computer because it doesn't die in flames regularly.

  13. Re:So, basically,Apple is in the fashion industry on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, China is a country and not a firm.

  14. Re:You couldn't make enough on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    I absolutely know google fanboys.

    Also, the reality distortion field has been dead since October 2011.

  15. Re:Sounds like bullshit on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    It violates the second law. But so does a superconductor, so who cares.

  16. Re:Did I miss something? on Microsoft's Market Value Tops $500 Billion Again After 17 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's helpful. They sell really crap software and their amazing peripherals seem like an unlikely source of real revenue, so this was a head scratcher for me. Installing Windows on a machine now makes about as much sense as lighting it on fire and Office has only gotten rearranged since about version 6.0

  17. Re:Using the cloud is so safe and secure... on The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16 Million Kids' CS Homework (code.org) · · Score: 1

    right, so there is a second bug that the interface didn't admit to the inability to save work.

  18. Re:Oracle drove away a lot of Sun's customers on Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Most developers" you took a survey?

  19. Re: is this a problem? on Google Pressured 90,000 Android Developers Over Insecure Apps (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    To be clear about how tinfoil hat this is, the "code word" for the pizza show owner was "pizza" which seems like a word that, I don't know, a pizza shop owner might just want to use for their routine business.

  20. he would like that, with a recreational vehicle.

  21. Re:Oracle drove away a lot of Sun's customers on Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you care what the default shell is, you're doing *nix wrong.

  22. Re:Oracle drove away a lot of Sun's customers on Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    SIP (ensuring you can't write to any of the system directories, even as root- this includes /usr and a whole bunch of other locations)

    you can if you're an admin worth a damn. This is a very good idea in terms of malware protection and I wish Windows would do it.

    it's becoming more and more difficult to use the "Unix" side of OS X.

    It's actually exactly the same: open terminal.

    Soon enough, they'll remove that utility, along with the one you need to disable SIP, and we'll start seeing people having to "jailbreak" their Mac to bring back any semblance of the freedom they once had under the earlier versions of Mac OS X.

    yeah, the anti-mac argument has always been that it's just about to become a problem. It's like how we're always 50 years from fusion. Mac becoming a walled garden is always right around a corner that we never get to.

  23. Re:Oracle drove away a lot of Sun's customers on Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The people that count say it is. All that other stuff is just junk thrown on top.

    You'd be better off criticizing how crappy their implementation of some of the commands is in terms of performance, because it is. I just opened up top totally vanilla and it was consuming 3.8% of a core. On Solaris it would be something like 1%, even with much slower cores. (Apple used to use 10% on top and this was a better example.)

  24. Re:Why should I care again? on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the same. I'm just surprised the cost of setting it up that way didn't exceed the money they make back.

  25. I don't think he can be extradited if the US doesn't request it. He's just hiding to keep the news interested in him. It's like the guy in a bar fight who yells "don't hold me back!" while his friends aren't. It's only mildly better played here.