This proves he understands computer architecture, particularly for the x86 and knows how to write code that works very well on his targeted hardware. A lot of people do, particularly in hardware development, firmware and (get ready) embedded development. Not everyone, I'm sure he gets lots of crappy patches.
That doesn't qualify him to lead anything, nor does it excuse the attitude. If he wants to pull off the Asperger's thing and obsess over every lost access cycle, he should do it as a code contributor while a more dynamic personality handles the project leadership.
Put another way, any program can be optimized down to nothing if you throw out all the requirements. He doesn't seem to balance the two very well, nor does he want to share his insight with others as to why he makes arbitrary decisions.
That's another way of looking at it, but it's not held by everyone. I happen to agree with you, although I've never used public health care, community college etc. My parents had money, they invested heavily in me, and I'm self-sufficient and paying for a system that hasn't directly helped me.
For others, it's an annoyance. You work hard, you make good money, and it gets taken from you. They could be living a better life, if not for the weight of the country on their shoulders. Also a true statement.
Either way, it's a moot point. If it is legal, people will do it, which can be anything from barely following the letter of the law while in flagrant violation of its intent, to magnanimously giving more than is either expected or required. The government can only handle the former, and in the case of public corporations, is generally where they're operating anyhow (because all that is seen is the bottom line).
It does, though I'm not sure it meets your criteria for directly. The issue, and I'm sure I'm wrong on some important details, is that until you realize ("defer" technically) the earnings within the US, you don't owe taxes.
So imagine that you make all this money offshore somewhere for which you don't owe taxes, use that money to fund R&D offshore (might as well, right?) and move the rest to some low tax shelter that you feel is secure. The only money you have to bring in is either money that originated in local sales (i.e. essentially imported goods), and whatever extra may be necessary to fund your US based business.
On paper, you're making more money since you've avoided a tax hit, utilized cheaper labor markets to do so [at the expense of western nations with more socialized laws], and can still do business in any market you want.
By closing this out, you help any type of US job that could have been outsourced previously (because you didn't need to do it within the US). R&D is a big one, since it has a rather sizable trickle down effect, both in terms of locally necessary resources (fabs/factories/sales force/etc.), and in harder to quantify things that result in skilled and knowlegable people using new ideas to start businesses. R&D is also one of the most offshorable jobs, as its output is not tangible and impossible to tax.
So Obama has to fund the bailout, but he has to keep businesses interested in the US. Businesses do of course prefer to be here, our market is huge in terms of our overall wealth and spending, the question is how much can we get back from them before it becomes profitable for them to not be here. Probably not the entirety of what has been proposed...so the intelligent solution is to cut them a small break on taxes they will now owe (all they care about is money, wherever it comes from), while ensuring the nations long term well being by picking what resources will remain here (which is theoretically what government exists for).
And depending on which iteration of the article you have read, that's kind of what everyone is predicting. We'll lower corporate tax while closing loopholes. It's regrettable that this will be necessary, but we've spent 7 years funding multi-nationals in setting up operations outside the US, so they can create some amount of trouble, it's just not optimial for either the US or them.
On the other hand, we will at least regain some control over what is outsourced. Right now "if it doesn't need to be done here, ship it". This is leaving companies full of redundant white collar middle management, with no real skills or intellectual output. If we make some changes we can theoretically retain some of the R&D work we want to keep here, and by proxy, some of the MFG/"know how" and infrastructure required to do that.
I am curious who MS's competitor is that they'd me "disadvantaged" to. The same goes for pretty much all of them, I know who my company's major competitors are, and I know they're US based and off-shoring because of each other. I am not aware of any purely foreign based company that is even on our our top 10 competitive threats. In fact 99% of the market is divided into 3 major competitors, all US based.
In the USA we have, and/or had, similar systems. It tends to vary by state/district and I've been in so many it has blurred. Most schools had a concept of "gifted/regular/remedial" in some fashion. The advantages I think are obvious, but this model has always been under attack. It seems the schools prefer to mix capabilities, trying to drive mediocrity instead of excellence. Good training for the corporate world, but I digress.
The only compelling argument against the segregation approach is that teachers too wish to teach the more eager, more docile elite, than to deal with the remedial students who in many cases may be dangerous, but certainly more troublesome. As a result, remedial teachers tend to teach remedial students, making a bad situation worse. Maintaining control/authority in these levels does at times become a bigger concern than teaching.
I'm pretty sure being a member of the communist party is still acceptable discrimination if you are a resident alien seeking citizenship, applying to government related jobs, etc. in the US. My wife, formerly a Chinese citizen, was asked this several times by officials and in official documents.
I'm not really sure what we have is necessarily that altruistic.
Many of us Americans aren't really sure of our heritage. Maybe I'm English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German, Austrian, Polish, Blackfoot, and God knows what else, I'm beginning to think my ancestors would mount a gorilla if it wouldn't tear their arms off.
It was arguably RP but if people won something that turned into money, various legal issues are triggered.
Almost anything can be monetized. Almost any MMOG currency has a reasonably stable market value, and you can operate with it without any tax hit, or any records being kept. I'm sure somewhere out there, people are using MMOG currency to evade taxes too.
I think making a distinction between "virtual" anything and "real" anything is foolish. The concern I'd have with a virtual contract is how to hold the party to the contract. I'm not sure how to sue "Sephir0z!!!@LOL!". Linden Labs, in this case, may have a name and address for this person, but it'd be really hard to know if he himself actually entered into the contract.
I think we're exporting our pollution, along with our jobs and industry. Unless you really think all those dead end middle management jobs that we're being pushed to are actually going to be necessary in the long run.
Yet power is never abused, there are no lazy people, and the brainwashing is completely effective and egalitarian. Also that no-named guy you summon to the transporter room for an away mission goes willingly and puts on a brave face, before he is horribly killed.
If you can take the most screwed up, historically improbable system of government and it works flawlessly, the only possible explanation is that people were universally rational about it!
Google my first, middle and last name, you will find a guy who is not me, has my name, the same type of degree (better school though!), engaged to a woman with a name very similar to my wife's.
I'm not sure I would trust this Google hypothesis.
Meanwhile, I am so good at my job because I'm a time-traveler from the 37th century...
Improbable. Star Trek allows us to conclude that humans will start becoming logical, rational individuals within the next few hundred years. By the 37th century we will be accustomed to making sense at all times, and doing The Right Thing.
You just try getting anywhere with that attitude in today's corporate world!
I think this is a little harder than the crazy audiophile nonsense that dominates the "Monster Cable" market. There is some truth that by carefully engineering ethernet cables may offer better performance than doing it yourself as cleanly as you know how, in some cases . We do this a lot in the EE world, when running those traces out to connectors for your Ethernet/USB/SAS/SATA/etc.
The issue is that unless you designed the receiver, you really don't know what "good enough" is for it to correctly recover data. The only real way to know this is to do what most people don't have time to do: test it. A TDR won't be good enough, the only effective way I know of is to measure bit-error rate (BER). Send data down nonstop, and calculate the ratio of bad bits to good ones. Try out different cables and compare. My hunch is you will see a difference, but you probably aren't going to lose sleep over it. More interesting is probably comparing different vendor NICs with each other (say Intel versus Broadcom versus Brand X). I suspect you will see more variation there.
It's also a fair statement that there's no guarantee that buying OTS cabling is necessarily any better. So unless I were really worried about bad packets, I'd just do whatever was most economical.
It's a flu transmitted between pigs. In a few cases humans can pick it up from pigs. Swine Flu. Oink oink.
I imagine it's scary because those who are most susceptible to serious harm from Flu weren't vaccinated against this strain in their yearly flu shot. It has killed people as a result. Thus it is alarming, as visions of little old ladies, cancer patients and infants are running wild.
In any event, the more the public is scared into washing their hands more often and staying home from work/school when they're sick, the better. I for one am tired of getting gifts from my coworkers or children that I could live without.
Would it help if you could choose what is shared and what is not?
I like the idea of making sure my doctor knows everything about me he can when making a diagnosis. I believe most of them are competent and not acting out of greed. If I get screwed by one, as you have, censoring out the idiot would be nice.
But looking at how many blood tests I have had over the years in physicals, and how many other things have built up in 3x years, I think there's a body of evidence a doctor could use. I also want them to know things about me even when I'm unconscious or otherwise unreliable.
There are some privacy issues that worry me, there is the equivalent of medical trolls that worry me. There's unauthorized and unapproved use of my data. I'd like some controls and legal assurances, but I do think it's worth the risk and trouble.
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This proves he understands computer architecture, particularly for the x86 and knows how to write code that works very well on his targeted hardware. A lot of people do, particularly in hardware development, firmware and (get ready) embedded development. Not everyone, I'm sure he gets lots of crappy patches.
That doesn't qualify him to lead anything, nor does it excuse the attitude. If he wants to pull off the Asperger's thing and obsess over every lost access cycle, he should do it as a code contributor while a more dynamic personality handles the project leadership.
Put another way, any program can be optimized down to nothing if you throw out all the requirements. He doesn't seem to balance the two very well, nor does he want to share his insight with others as to why he makes arbitrary decisions.
We all do.
'In animal models, they routinely cure diabetes.'
That's great for models, but what about ugly people? Don't we get a cure?
That's another way of looking at it, but it's not held by everyone. I happen to agree with you, although I've never used public health care, community college etc. My parents had money, they invested heavily in me, and I'm self-sufficient and paying for a system that hasn't directly helped me.
For others, it's an annoyance. You work hard, you make good money, and it gets taken from you. They could be living a better life, if not for the weight of the country on their shoulders. Also a true statement.
Either way, it's a moot point. If it is legal, people will do it, which can be anything from barely following the letter of the law while in flagrant violation of its intent, to magnanimously giving more than is either expected or required. The government can only handle the former, and in the case of public corporations, is generally where they're operating anyhow (because all that is seen is the bottom line).
It does, though I'm not sure it meets your criteria for directly. The issue, and I'm sure I'm wrong on some important details, is that until you realize ("defer" technically) the earnings within the US, you don't owe taxes.
So imagine that you make all this money offshore somewhere for which you don't owe taxes, use that money to fund R&D offshore (might as well, right?) and move the rest to some low tax shelter that you feel is secure. The only money you have to bring in is either money that originated in local sales (i.e. essentially imported goods), and whatever extra may be necessary to fund your US based business.
On paper, you're making more money since you've avoided a tax hit, utilized cheaper labor markets to do so [at the expense of western nations with more socialized laws], and can still do business in any market you want.
By closing this out, you help any type of US job that could have been outsourced previously (because you didn't need to do it within the US). R&D is a big one, since it has a rather sizable trickle down effect, both in terms of locally necessary resources (fabs/factories/sales force/etc.), and in harder to quantify things that result in skilled and knowlegable people using new ideas to start businesses. R&D is also one of the most offshorable jobs, as its output is not tangible and impossible to tax.
So Obama has to fund the bailout, but he has to keep businesses interested in the US. Businesses do of course prefer to be here, our market is huge in terms of our overall wealth and spending, the question is how much can we get back from them before it becomes profitable for them to not be here. Probably not the entirety of what has been proposed...so the intelligent solution is to cut them a small break on taxes they will now owe (all they care about is money, wherever it comes from), while ensuring the nations long term well being by picking what resources will remain here (which is theoretically what government exists for).
And depending on which iteration of the article you have read, that's kind of what everyone is predicting. We'll lower corporate tax while closing loopholes. It's regrettable that this will be necessary, but we've spent 7 years funding multi-nationals in setting up operations outside the US, so they can create some amount of trouble, it's just not optimial for either the US or them.
On the other hand, we will at least regain some control over what is outsourced. Right now "if it doesn't need to be done here, ship it". This is leaving companies full of redundant white collar middle management, with no real skills or intellectual output. If we make some changes we can theoretically retain some of the R&D work we want to keep here, and by proxy, some of the MFG/"know how" and infrastructure required to do that.
I am curious who MS's competitor is that they'd me "disadvantaged" to. The same goes for pretty much all of them, I know who my company's major competitors are, and I know they're US based and off-shoring because of each other. I am not aware of any purely foreign based company that is even on our our top 10 competitive threats. In fact 99% of the market is divided into 3 major competitors, all US based.
In the USA we have, and/or had, similar systems. It tends to vary by state/district and I've been in so many it has blurred. Most schools had a concept of "gifted/regular/remedial" in some fashion. The advantages I think are obvious, but this model has always been under attack. It seems the schools prefer to mix capabilities, trying to drive mediocrity instead of excellence. Good training for the corporate world, but I digress.
The only compelling argument against the segregation approach is that teachers too wish to teach the more eager, more docile elite, than to deal with the remedial students who in many cases may be dangerous, but certainly more troublesome. As a result, remedial teachers tend to teach remedial students, making a bad situation worse. Maintaining control/authority in these levels does at times become a bigger concern than teaching.
Or perhaps they have things to say that people don't necessarily want to hear or believe.
I'm pretty sure being a member of the communist party is still acceptable discrimination if you are a resident alien seeking citizenship, applying to government related jobs, etc. in the US. My wife, formerly a Chinese citizen, was asked this several times by officials and in official documents.
I'm not really sure what we have is necessarily that altruistic.
For the love of all that is holy, do not raise that bird on disco.
It probably means he's American.
Many of us Americans aren't really sure of our heritage. Maybe I'm English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German, Austrian, Polish, Blackfoot, and God knows what else, I'm beginning to think my ancestors would mount a gorilla if it wouldn't tear their arms off.
Flus are annoying, they show up wether you want them to or not, right in the middle of something else you were doing.
Ok, so how about The Thompson Flu.
It was arguably RP but if people won something that turned into money, various legal issues are triggered.
Almost anything can be monetized. Almost any MMOG currency has a reasonably stable market value, and you can operate with it without any tax hit, or any records being kept. I'm sure somewhere out there, people are using MMOG currency to evade taxes too.
I think making a distinction between "virtual" anything and "real" anything is foolish. The concern I'd have with a virtual contract is how to hold the party to the contract. I'm not sure how to sue "Sephir0z!!!@LOL!". Linden Labs, in this case, may have a name and address for this person, but it'd be really hard to know if he himself actually entered into the contract.
I will then have to put up with people asking if I'm ok, have I lost my job, why am I selling my hair for fertilizer?
Nature can be so cruel.
So how is advertising to the largest body of easily available [money] anything but genius?
Pretty sure you could fit that in the trunk of a small car, even if you wanted to use small unmarked bills.
Loan me some and I'll try it out.
I think we're exporting our pollution, along with our jobs and industry. Unless you really think all those dead end middle management jobs that we're being pushed to are actually going to be necessary in the long run.
Right out.
Yet power is never abused, there are no lazy people, and the brainwashing is completely effective and egalitarian. Also that no-named guy you summon to the transporter room for an away mission goes willingly and puts on a brave face, before he is horribly killed.
If you can take the most screwed up, historically improbable system of government and it works flawlessly, the only possible explanation is that people were universally rational about it!
Google my first, middle and last name, you will find a guy who is not me, has my name, the same type of degree (better school though!), engaged to a woman with a name very similar to my wife's.
I'm not sure I would trust this Google hypothesis.
Meanwhile, I am so good at my job because I'm a time-traveler from the 37th century...
Improbable. Star Trek allows us to conclude that humans will start becoming logical, rational individuals within the next few hundred years. By the 37th century we will be accustomed to making sense at all times, and doing The Right Thing.
You just try getting anywhere with that attitude in today's corporate world!
It really depends on if the voices in your head tell you to do things, or if they just get off their lazy asses, take over and do it themselves!
I think this is a little harder than the crazy audiophile nonsense that dominates the "Monster Cable" market. There is some truth that by carefully engineering ethernet cables may offer better performance than doing it yourself as cleanly as you know how, in some cases . We do this a lot in the EE world, when running those traces out to connectors for your Ethernet/USB/SAS/SATA/etc.
The issue is that unless you designed the receiver, you really don't know what "good enough" is for it to correctly recover data. The only real way to know this is to do what most people don't have time to do: test it. A TDR won't be good enough, the only effective way I know of is to measure bit-error rate (BER). Send data down nonstop, and calculate the ratio of bad bits to good ones. Try out different cables and compare. My hunch is you will see a difference, but you probably aren't going to lose sleep over it. More interesting is probably comparing different vendor NICs with each other (say Intel versus Broadcom versus Brand X). I suspect you will see more variation there.
It's also a fair statement that there's no guarantee that buying OTS cabling is necessarily any better. So unless I were really worried about bad packets, I'd just do whatever was most economical.
It's a flu transmitted between pigs. In a few cases humans can pick it up from pigs. Swine Flu. Oink oink.
I imagine it's scary because those who are most susceptible to serious harm from Flu weren't vaccinated against this strain in their yearly flu shot. It has killed people as a result. Thus it is alarming, as visions of little old ladies, cancer patients and infants are running wild.
In any event, the more the public is scared into washing their hands more often and staying home from work/school when they're sick, the better. I for one am tired of getting gifts from my coworkers or children that I could live without.
Would it help if you could choose what is shared and what is not?
I like the idea of making sure my doctor knows everything about me he can when making a diagnosis. I believe most of them are competent and not acting out of greed. If I get screwed by one, as you have, censoring out the idiot would be nice.
But looking at how many blood tests I have had over the years in physicals, and how many other things have built up in 3x years, I think there's a body of evidence a doctor could use. I also want them to know things about me even when I'm unconscious or otherwise unreliable.
There are some privacy issues that worry me, there is the equivalent of medical trolls that worry me. There's unauthorized and unapproved use of my data. I'd like some controls and legal assurances, but I do think it's worth the risk and trouble.