if you must know the American economy is still the fastest growing major market, by far the largest, and from a purely investment stand point the best place to get good returns vs. risk. Otherwise, not much. Oh, the development of electricity. Don't forget the airplane and the automobile. Uh, and inventing the IC. Do'h, I forgot the high rise building. Oh and a whole host of personal rights, freedoms and privileges. Oh, the telephone, modems, ethernet and the internet. Well crap, the world would be stink hole with out the Americans.
I can't show you his tax returns becase as you know that is private information. However, we can make best case scenarios and run 40k through the tax code. He's married and there's no mention of kids. That sets up the dependents. He's also a building super so he probably does not have a mortgage as his housing is provided. Which the fair market value of should count as income on his tax returns but we don't know what that is so that can't be considered. Also if he's the super he's probably not disabled and since he reads e-mail he's not blind. His wife's status on these points is unknown so in the absence of knowledge we'll go with the most likely case that she's not either.
Ok he pays 8.25 percent tax on everything he buys in the form of a sales tax. That is one of the highest sales taxes in the country. He is also supposed to fill out a form and pay that sales tax on purchases made from items shipped to his home address when that tax in not collected but I doubt this actually happens. He also pays 7.25 percent state income tax and 7.25 city income tax. Generally state and in the rare city income tax schedule one gets the same deductions as the federal income tax. So he gets his personal decution and two boxes on the dependent chart. Now the IRS lest you deduct local and state income and property taxes but since 3.6k is less than the standard deduction of 9.5k he should use that instead. Combine that with his two deductions which total 6.1k and you 15.6k. Subtract 15.6k from 40k and you get 24.4k. The city will want 1.8k The state will want the same 1.8k The IRS will want 3.14k Let's see that brings the total to 6.74k. Not as much as I thought orriginally but the state and city combined get more out of him than the feds do. ouch. Tack on his sales tax and other hidden taxes (attached to phone service, utilities, etc) I bet he pays about a 20-25% of his income in taxes.
He can either spend his money on spam pitches or he can get mugged. I bet the muggers get pretty peeved though when they demand cash and all he has to offer is vitamins, penis enlargement pills and blurbs about time shares.
After Federal income tax, State income tax, City income tax and sales tax, most of that 40k got mugged by his elected officials anyway.
In any case as much as we hate spam at least its better for us that he does this than him doing hard drugs.
Re:Writing is bad enough, testing is worse
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Every function should either check all inputs for valid states and conditions or they are hidden functions that have this done for them. If they are hidden they are never exposed as an API or even beyond the class or compilation unit they come from.
As far as disasters all out of proportion to the cause, computers are famous for that. There are cases where I've seen very small changes in the code base result in huge messes. This is usually related to pointers or boundary conditions(inputs approaching, or on, or just past the extreme ranges of valid inputs).
The problem isn't that programmers are any more lazy than the architects. The reason buildings don't fall down from minor stresses is because when they do, people tend to die. Over the course of human history architects have made monumental mistakes that have cost the lives of many, many people. Two things have come as a result of these failures. 1) Materials knowledge: knowing just how much stone, brick, wood, etc. is required to hold up a given force over a given span under specific conditions. Mercifully in this age most of this information comes from intentional failures in stress labs. Even so, modern building failures still happen.
2) Building Code: Given what is know from 1, codes are in place to make sure that architects know what is required to make their buildings safe. Even here though the codes are not perfect and they change fairly regularly.
People make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are made in code. When that happens the computer replicates these mistakes unerringly. Sometimes with frightening rapidity.
Writing is bad enough, testing is worse
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It is true that writing bulletproof software is TEDIOUS. However, after watching our test staff I have determined that testing it is beyond tedious. It is mind numbing!
The company I work for makes software for wafer fabrication. If the software fails, no one dies but millions of dollars of materials and time can be lost: we spend a lot of time testing and retesting and verifying our tests and going over scenarios to make sure we get it right. Event with all that, over the last couple of years we've logged over 600+ defects of various types. All the way from a misspelled word on an error message to miss-processed data to crashes. Most of those errors are detected in house and the customer doesn't see them: but I would guess we get 4 to 8 defects reported from customers every month with most being minor but a few are so egregiously bad that should have been impossible for that to make it through testing. But even a small error can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more in losses so no bug is a good bug. Most other places I've worked have testing in name only. The code is compiled and run for a few seconds: some edit boxes are typed into and the mouse is wiggled around and that's it.
If architects make buildings like programmers write code then every woodpecker that comes along destroys civilization.
The FDA needs to get with the Energy Department and add labeling that indicates the average Kw out put per serving on your favorite foods.
Eventually 'Power Diets' (copyrighted by me here and now:-) will arrive; these will be geared toward symbiotic foods stuffs that eaten (and crapped) together produce the best power for you home. Yeah!
Electric Bran Flakes! - the cereal that makes you regular and powers your day!
The only Viacom property that's worth anything is Comedy Central and the 16 large market CBS statsions. The rest are largely junk. I hate that instead of creating better properties and/or improving existing ones Viacom wants to foist off the rest of its crap in order to get something worth while. Prohibitive bundling requirements needs to be stoped. Kudos to Dish for trying to do something about it! Now, how do we the viewing public vent our collective ire on Viacom ?
Great, maybe/. can't but you have to admit that M$FT is a great target for this sort of thing. In reality MS Windows is the greatest vector ever for distributing viruses. Period. One can argue that it's because of its ubiquitous presence or because of its inherent insecurity or its user base which does not seem to understand that outlook is too dangerous for them to use. In any case if M$FT and its attending cheerleaders wish to see this/. practice stop then fix MS windows or encourage M$FT to fix it: each as your roll may allow.
.NET is a huge secutiry hole that you could lose a universe in. As far as platform inititives go this one was not well thought out in terms of sectiry problems.
M$FT has no culture for fixing bugs. It only pays lip service to stability and security. Add that to the fact that the windows code base is many, many, many millions of lines of code and you will find there are not enough security experts to vet the existing code base for security holes. So you can bitch and moan about blather and what not but no matter how you slice it, MS Windows has been, is, and will be a buggy security breach in any network.
oohhhh, (shudder) that alone is reason enough to dump M$FT. But wait, what if we through in more inane characters to replace clippy with the same stream of useless commentary? Then how fast would you dump M$FT?
Money, Money, Money, Money, Mooneey, Mooooneey.
The margin for games has always been tight. For the game maker the CDs have been a boon in terms of easing the profit margin.
The argument you make also applies to cassettes and VHS tapes. The CDs and DVDs are much cheaper to make these days but is music and video cheeper on the newer media?
There are absolutely no so called Fight Club jokes here. In fact they are not even with in 1000 Km of here. If they were here they would be committing suicide against my/. id. I am 100 percent clear on this. This is my belief as always that they are cowards and these jokes will die a thousand times.
A trial by Jury can be waived in favor of a trial by Judge. I would think that the defendent in a tort cause can decide if the trial is by a judge (which should be more rational) or a by a jury(who knows, roll the dice).
If the case is this stupid then I would think that judge could throw it out anyway.
Does anyone know what the limits are on getting a trial by Judge?
Does anybody do plumbing as a hobby?
I can hear it now: "I used to like installing PVC drainage pipes but now, well when I get home and find a leak under the sink it's just too much like work to get under there and fix it."
Does anyone know? I'm not a [ge|bi|paleont]ologist. And I'm certainly not a Xeno[ge|bi|paleont]ologist. While there are probably stats. for Earth there are none for Mars.
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if you must know the American economy is still the fastest growing major market, by far the largest, and from a purely investment stand point the best place to get good returns vs. risk. Otherwise, not much. Oh, the development of electricity. Don't forget the airplane and the automobile. Uh, and inventing the IC. Do'h, I forgot the high rise building. Oh and a whole host of personal rights, freedoms and privileges. Oh, the telephone, modems, ethernet and the internet. Well crap, the world would be stink hole with out the Americans.
I can't show you his tax returns becase as you know that is private information. However, we can make best case scenarios and run 40k through the tax code.
He's married and there's no mention of kids. That sets up the dependents. He's also a building super so he probably does not have a mortgage as his housing is provided. Which the fair market value of should count as income on his tax returns but we don't know what that is so that can't be considered. Also if he's the super he's probably not disabled and since he reads e-mail he's not blind. His wife's status on these points is unknown so in the absence of knowledge we'll go with the most likely case that she's not either.
Ok he pays 8.25 percent tax on everything he buys in the form of a sales tax. That is one of the highest sales taxes in the country. He is also supposed to fill out a form and pay that sales tax on purchases made from items shipped to his home address when that tax in not collected but I doubt this actually happens.
He also pays 7.25 percent state income tax and 7.25 city income tax. Generally state and in the rare city income tax schedule one gets the same deductions as the federal income tax. So he gets his personal decution and two boxes on the dependent chart. Now the IRS lest you deduct local and state income and property taxes but since 3.6k is less than the standard deduction of 9.5k he should use that instead. Combine that with his two deductions which total 6.1k and you 15.6k. Subtract 15.6k from 40k and you get 24.4k.
The city will want 1.8k
The state will want the same 1.8k
The IRS will want 3.14k
Let's see that brings the total to 6.74k.
Not as much as I thought orriginally but the state and city combined get more out of him than the feds do. ouch. Tack on his sales tax and other hidden taxes (attached to phone service, utilities, etc) I bet he pays about a 20-25% of his income in taxes.
He can either spend his money on spam pitches or he can get mugged. I bet the muggers get pretty peeved though when they demand cash and all he has to offer is vitamins, penis enlargement pills and blurbs about time shares.
After Federal income tax, State income tax, City income tax and sales tax, most of that 40k got mugged by his elected officials anyway.
In any case as much as we hate spam at least its better for us that he does this than him doing hard drugs.
Every function should either check all inputs for valid states and conditions or they are hidden functions that have this done for them. If they are hidden they are never exposed as an API or even beyond the class or compilation unit they come from.
As far as disasters all out of proportion to the cause, computers are famous for that. There are cases where I've seen very small changes in the code base result in huge messes. This is usually related to pointers or boundary conditions(inputs approaching, or on, or just past the extreme ranges of valid inputs).
The problem isn't that programmers are any more lazy than the architects. The reason buildings don't fall down from minor stresses is because when they do, people tend to die. Over the course of human history architects have made monumental mistakes that have cost the lives of many, many people. Two things have come as a result of these failures.
1) Materials knowledge: knowing just how much stone, brick, wood, etc. is required to hold up a given force over a given span under specific conditions. Mercifully in this age most of this information comes from intentional failures in stress labs. Even so, modern building failures still happen.
2) Building Code: Given what is know from 1, codes are in place to make sure that architects know what is required to make their buildings safe. Even here though the codes are not perfect and they change fairly regularly.
People make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are made in code. When that happens the computer replicates these mistakes unerringly. Sometimes with frightening rapidity.
It is true that writing bulletproof software is TEDIOUS. However, after watching our test staff I have determined that testing it is beyond tedious. It is mind numbing!
The company I work for makes software for wafer fabrication. If the software fails, no one dies but millions of dollars of materials and time can be lost: we spend a lot of time testing and retesting and verifying our tests and going over scenarios to make sure we get it right. Event with all that, over the last couple of years we've logged over 600+ defects of various types. All the way from a misspelled word on an error message to miss-processed data to crashes. Most of those errors are detected in house and the customer doesn't see them: but I would guess we get 4 to 8 defects reported from customers every month with most being minor but a few are so egregiously bad that should have been impossible for that to make it through testing. But even a small error can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more in losses so no bug is a good bug.
Most other places I've worked have testing in name only. The code is compiled and run for a few seconds: some edit boxes are typed into and the mouse is wiggled around and that's it.
If architects make buildings like programmers write code then every woodpecker that comes along destroys civilization.
The FDA needs to get with the Energy Department and add labeling that indicates the average Kw out put per serving on your favorite foods.
:-) will arrive; these will be geared toward symbiotic foods stuffs that eaten (and crapped) together produce the best power for you home. Yeah!
Eventually 'Power Diets' (copyrighted by me here and now
Electric Bran Flakes! - the cereal that makes you regular and powers your day!
Is there a list anywhere describing which states submit data and what that data is ?
Very cool, thank you! I'll get right on it!
The only Viacom property that's worth anything is Comedy Central and the 16 large market CBS statsions. The rest are largely junk. I hate that instead of creating better properties and/or improving existing ones Viacom wants to foist off the rest of its crap in order to get something worth while. Prohibitive bundling requirements needs to be stoped. Kudos to Dish for trying to do something about it! Now, how do we the viewing public vent our collective ire on Viacom ?
I thought the french farmers did that for fun.
Great, maybe /. can't but you have to admit that M$FT is a great target for this sort of thing. In reality MS Windows is the greatest vector ever for distributing viruses. Period. One can argue that it's because of its ubiquitous presence or because of its inherent insecurity or its user base which does not seem to understand that outlook is too dangerous for them to use. In any case if M$FT and its attending cheerleaders wish to see this /. practice stop then fix MS windows or encourage M$FT to fix it: each as your roll may allow.
If it's one of my friends, yes. If not, no.
No that was a software error. One of the defines is off so that 7-bit systems are incorrectly reported as having a max int of 28.
.NET is a huge secutiry hole that you could lose a universe in. As far as platform inititives go this one was not well thought out in terms of sectiry problems.
M$FT has no culture for fixing bugs. It only pays lip service to stability and security. Add that to the fact that the windows code base is many, many, many millions of lines of code and you will find there are not enough security experts to vet the existing code base for security holes. So you can bitch and moan about blather and what not but no matter how you slice it, MS Windows has been, is, and will be a buggy security breach in any network.
oohhhh, (shudder) that alone is reason enough to dump M$FT.
But wait, what if we through in more inane characters to replace clippy with the same stream of useless commentary? Then how fast would you dump M$FT?
Money, Money, Money, Money, Mooneey, Mooooneey. The margin for games has always been tight. For the game maker the CDs have been a boon in terms of easing the profit margin.
The argument you make also applies to cassettes and VHS tapes. The CDs and DVDs are much cheaper to make these days but is music and video cheeper on the newer media?
I for one deeply hope that Darl is not paranoid.
It is terrible to think that he could suffer from this as well as being delusional and suffering from kleptomania .
There are absolutely no so called Fight Club jokes here. /. id. I am 100 percent clear on this. This is my belief as always that they are cowards and these jokes will die a thousand times.
In fact they are not even with in 1000 Km of here. If they were here they would be committing suicide against my
The first rule about the Tin Foil Hat Club is: "Don't talk about the Tin Foil Hat Club."
SCO logo there looks like a big red beachball with Mickey Mouse's head on the side
It does! Somebody tell the rat! Maybe SCO will have to change it's logo!
A trial by Jury can be waived in favor of a trial by Judge. I would think that the defendent in a tort cause can decide if the trial is by a judge (which should be more rational) or a by a jury(who knows, roll the dice).
If the case is this stupid then I would think that judge could throw it out anyway.
Does anyone know what the limits are on getting a trial by Judge?
Does anybody do plumbing as a hobby?
I can hear it now: "I used to like installing PVC drainage pipes but now, well when I get home and find a leak under the sink it's just too much like work to get under there and fix it."
Frist rule of plumbing: shit don't run up hill.
Like the IBM p70! Now that's a lugable!
I had one of these, my right arm was in Great Shape!
If I had two of these I would have looked like a body builder!
The PC Museum
You kids these days are so spoiled. It weighs more that 10 pounds.
Whimps! Do some push ups! Drop and give me 50!
Does anyone know? I'm not a [ge|bi|paleont]ologist. And I'm certainly not a Xeno[ge|bi|paleont]ologist.
While there are probably stats. for Earth there are none for Mars.