How about let the smart kids finish the required classes and go to college a year early? Or at least work on college classes their fourth year (like a community college set of classes for free given to them by the high school). Making them wait another year seems cruel when they can do the same coursework in college and actually further their education instead of taking classes that will probably be required in college anyway, effectively making them take those classes twice.
At work, we have dual 4K projectors behind a 32:9, 15 foot wide piece of glass on our main visualization display (we do 3D visualization software) and we run a system with two Quadroplex boxes (two quadro 5800's each I believe) and nVidia's drivers are a long way from actually working correctly for us. We see a lot of tearing when in mosaic mode and multiple opengl contexts can't run concurrently (it only allows half resolution height when doing so) and makes the system very unstable. Seeing that this card doesn't require clock sync and works with six screens seamlessly, it looks like a viable alternative to us. Considering that two cards could run our 7680x2160 screen (our 4K projectors are four 1080p screens each) it might be advantageous for us to upgrade had we not just bought the new quadroplexes (nVidia told us to update our quadroplexes as our old ones didn't support the mosaic mode correctly; unfortunately, the new ones don't seem to either...)
I see these cards more useful to those with setups like ours; projectors that can display without borders and for high-quality visualizations.
The government should regulate anything that one person's actions directly affect another person's rights. ie. FDA makes sure some company doesn't sell you shitty drugs. however, health insurance doesn't affect me if you don't have it.
It isn't irrelevant. This is setting precedent that if a company doesn't implement a patented technology, they are liable. This would pretty much force every company to license and implement every other companies' patents or be held responsible for any negative consequences.
It might not be about software, but this isn't the "News for software nerds" and patent law is something a lot of the people at the site have strong opinions about.
How do you justify taking into account internet connectivity costs? If someone has a computer, there is a reasonable assumption (99.99% of people with a computer) that they will require an internet connection regardless of whether they use this service or not.
Second, if you use this service, as long as you play one game every four months, you break even.
I still wouldn't use the system; I don't trust digital retailers. I like having control over the software I buy.
So the $5700 I can deduct is supposed to cover all necessary expenses I incur? I don't see how that could cover living expenses anywhere in the United States.
Also, shouldn't student loans be deductible (I know the interest you pay is)? I might be a bit biased since I have student loans, but I do feel helping current and future generations to afford a decent education should be a higher priority than giving multinational corporations tax breaks.
I would love to see the fed allow everyone to write off any necessities (living expenses, school expenses, necessary food purchases) as tax free payments instead of having to pay taxes BEFORE necessary payments are made. Then, I wouldn't mind so much about things like this happening.
Or, get rid of the income tax, increase sales tax, and add a fed sales tax. Necessities wouldn't be taxes, as they are now, so for those of you who say a sales tax-only system would hurt the poor too much, tell them to stop buying things they don't need and they wouldn't have to pay any taxes.
So? Why does it matter that it's on gross income and not net income? The government taxes me based on gross income, why shouldn't it tax corporations the same way? Corporations fight for their rights as "individuals" under the law, they use utilities just like everyone else. Frankly, I'm sick of corps getting special treatment just because they have tons of money. I know why it happens; jobs in a state are important and politicians will do anything to keep them there but it's a bit frustrating when a state is bankrupt itself and has to throw more money down the drain to do something like this.
I would say that hate speech should be considered any speech that advocates the attack on another person's rights based on a more generalized idea such as their race, sexual orientation, etc.
So, saying that you don't want illegal Mexican immigrants into the country wouldn't be considered hate speech, as it doesn't interfere with their rights; they don't have the right to enter our country illegally.
But saying that you want all Mexican's out of the country regardless of their citizenship because "they" stole your job, then yes, that would be hate speech. (Now if you said illegals only, that would not be hate speech as they are illegally in this country and technically don't have the right to stay here)
how does 2 days x 4 = 4 weeks? or 1 week x 4 = 2 months?
I would say halving the internal estimation and then moving up the time unit. ie. 1 day to half a week or a week to 3.5 weeks (7 days / 2. * 7 days). doubling first seems a bit pessimistic (and blatantly made up)
Regardless of his poor understanding of US law; ISP's should be considered common carriers whether they want to or not. ISP's should not be in the business of censoring anything.
Wouldn't copyright infringement be more along the lines of trying to pass off an existing work as your own? If you are just not paying for it, wouldn't that be considered stealing?
Saying he didn't steal anything is a bit much unless he actually had a legitimate copy of whatever songs they said he infringed. However, I would like to see them start to go after downloaders; it shouldn't be the responsibility of an uploader to make sure the downloader has a legitimate license for something.
I know fair use doesn't allow receiving a backup of something from another individual, but it should. If it did, though, what would the great big corporations do if they could only sue downloaders for only a couple hundred bucks? (technically they could charge them for criminal theft at that point I think)
I know it won't be as funny pointing out the irony, but it's his decision on what is the maximum amount reasonable so he goes on to say that he can't make the amount lower because it isn't his decision? How the hell did he drop it to $54,000 if it wasn't his decision?
How about those assholes that honk their horns and flash their highbeams behind me when I'm doing 5 over the speed limit but think I should get out of the left lane anyway?
I guess I should just mount one on the back of my car for those irresponsible people. (yes, this was a jab at your "under the speed limit" statement probably meant "under what you think is the minimum acceptable)
I've been using Consolas for almost a year now and I love it. I've even switched my default font at home to it. (browser, text editors, command windows, etc)
I didn't try anything else other than PowerDVD. Actually, I tried Nero 9 (had Nero 8 on desktop to play blu-rays so got 9 for laptop) and it doesn't even support BD playback even though 8 did. (Which is some bullshit) and even though my laptop had a blu-ray player, the free copy of PowerDVD that came with it didn't support playback either; I had to upgrade that, too.
It's all a bunch of bullshit. (At the time, I didn't realise there were free BD playback alternatives; didn't even occur to me to do some research./orz)
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How about let the smart kids finish the required classes and go to college a year early? Or at least work on college classes their fourth year (like a community college set of classes for free given to them by the high school). Making them wait another year seems cruel when they can do the same coursework in college and actually further their education instead of taking classes that will probably be required in college anyway, effectively making them take those classes twice.
At work, we have dual 4K projectors behind a 32:9, 15 foot wide piece of glass on our main visualization display (we do 3D visualization software) and we run a system with two Quadroplex boxes (two quadro 5800's each I believe) and nVidia's drivers are a long way from actually working correctly for us. We see a lot of tearing when in mosaic mode and multiple opengl contexts can't run concurrently (it only allows half resolution height when doing so) and makes the system very unstable. Seeing that this card doesn't require clock sync and works with six screens seamlessly, it looks like a viable alternative to us. Considering that two cards could run our 7680x2160 screen (our 4K projectors are four 1080p screens each) it might be advantageous for us to upgrade had we not just bought the new quadroplexes (nVidia told us to update our quadroplexes as our old ones didn't support the mosaic mode correctly; unfortunately, the new ones don't seem to either...)
I see these cards more useful to those with setups like ours; projectors that can display without borders and for high-quality visualizations.
The government should regulate anything that one person's actions directly affect another person's rights. ie. FDA makes sure some company doesn't sell you shitty drugs. however, health insurance doesn't affect me if you don't have it.
It isn't irrelevant. This is setting precedent that if a company doesn't implement a patented technology, they are liable. This would pretty much force every company to license and implement every other companies' patents or be held responsible for any negative consequences.
It might not be about software, but this isn't the "News for software nerds" and patent law is something a lot of the people at the site have strong opinions about.
How do you justify taking into account internet connectivity costs? If someone has a computer, there is a reasonable assumption (99.99% of people with a computer) that they will require an internet connection regardless of whether they use this service or not.
Second, if you use this service, as long as you play one game every four months, you break even.
I still wouldn't use the system; I don't trust digital retailers. I like having control over the software I buy.
Did you even read your post? That was the most intelligible piece of crap I've ever seen.
Your code doesn't share global temp variables between packages?
When a company offers insurance on a product where they will replace it for any reason, why do they expect anything else?
It should be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor
Yes, when the standard deduction of $5700 I get is in line with actuality, it might be understandable. But it isn't.
So the $5700 I can deduct is supposed to cover all necessary expenses I incur? I don't see how that could cover living expenses anywhere in the United States.
Also, shouldn't student loans be deductible (I know the interest you pay is)? I might be a bit biased since I have student loans, but I do feel helping current and future generations to afford a decent education should be a higher priority than giving multinational corporations tax breaks.
I would love to see the fed allow everyone to write off any necessities (living expenses, school expenses, necessary food purchases) as tax free payments instead of having to pay taxes BEFORE necessary payments are made. Then, I wouldn't mind so much about things like this happening.
Or, get rid of the income tax, increase sales tax, and add a fed sales tax. Necessities wouldn't be taxes, as they are now, so for those of you who say a sales tax-only system would hurt the poor too much, tell them to stop buying things they don't need and they wouldn't have to pay any taxes.
So? Why does it matter that it's on gross income and not net income? The government taxes me based on gross income, why shouldn't it tax corporations the same way? Corporations fight for their rights as "individuals" under the law, they use utilities just like everyone else. Frankly, I'm sick of corps getting special treatment just because they have tons of money. I know why it happens; jobs in a state are important and politicians will do anything to keep them there but it's a bit frustrating when a state is bankrupt itself and has to throw more money down the drain to do something like this.
I would say that hate speech should be considered any speech that advocates the attack on another person's rights based on a more generalized idea such as their race, sexual orientation, etc.
So, saying that you don't want illegal Mexican immigrants into the country wouldn't be considered hate speech, as it doesn't interfere with their rights; they don't have the right to enter our country illegally.
But saying that you want all Mexican's out of the country regardless of their citizenship because "they" stole your job, then yes, that would be hate speech. (Now if you said illegals only, that would not be hate speech as they are illegally in this country and technically don't have the right to stay here)
how does 2 days x 4 = 4 weeks? or 1 week x 4 = 2 months?
I would say halving the internal estimation and then moving up the time unit. ie. 1 day to half a week or a week to 3.5 weeks (7 days / 2. * 7 days). doubling first seems a bit pessimistic (and blatantly made up)
I can attest that boards.4chan.org does not resolve on my droid. no problem on my time warner cable connection
Regardless of his poor understanding of US law; ISP's should be considered common carriers whether they want to or not. ISP's should not be in the business of censoring anything.
Wouldn't copyright infringement be more along the lines of trying to pass off an existing work as your own? If you are just not paying for it, wouldn't that be considered stealing?
Saying he didn't steal anything is a bit much unless he actually had a legitimate copy of whatever songs they said he infringed. However, I would like to see them start to go after downloaders; it shouldn't be the responsibility of an uploader to make sure the downloader has a legitimate license for something.
I know fair use doesn't allow receiving a backup of something from another individual, but it should. If it did, though, what would the great big corporations do if they could only sue downloaders for only a couple hundred bucks? (technically they could charge them for criminal theft at that point I think)
I know it won't be as funny pointing out the irony, but it's his decision on what is the maximum amount reasonable so he goes on to say that he can't make the amount lower because it isn't his decision? How the hell did he drop it to $54,000 if it wasn't his decision?
I mean when I'm passing someone but the person behind me is being impatient because I'm not passing him at 20 mph over the speed limit.
How about those assholes that honk their horns and flash their highbeams behind me when I'm doing 5 over the speed limit but think I should get out of the left lane anyway?
I guess I should just mount one on the back of my car for those irresponsible people. (yes, this was a jab at your "under the speed limit" statement probably meant "under what you think is the minimum acceptable)
I've been using Consolas for almost a year now and I love it. I've even switched my default font at home to it. (browser, text editors, command windows, etc)
Proportional fonts are evil.
What do active glasses give you that polarity glasses wouldn't? Why go that road except to eek out a bit more cash from the consumer?
I didn't try anything else other than PowerDVD. Actually, I tried Nero 9 (had Nero 8 on desktop to play blu-rays so got 9 for laptop) and it doesn't even support BD playback even though 8 did. (Which is some bullshit) and even though my laptop had a blu-ray player, the free copy of PowerDVD that came with it didn't support playback either; I had to upgrade that, too.
/orz)
It's all a bunch of bullshit. (At the time, I didn't realise there were free BD playback alternatives; didn't even occur to me to do some research.