In a way having a lower corporate tax rate may promote some form of tax dodging. If the corporation pays less taxes what can easily happen is wealthy individuals will move their property goods including cars, houses, etc to the company in order to evade personal taxes.
The C64 also had a ROM cartridge slot. Just not many games available for it.
The SNES was awesome when it came out. You had plenty of arcade quality ports available for it. First time I saw Street Fighter II on it I was sold on the idea.
For me it's GoG and free to play games like Path of Exile, World of Tanks, Armored Warfare, Mechwarrior Online, etc. At least if the server dies I don't lose any money with it.
Actually it's well known from historical data that after the initial teething issues in a launcher are fixed the subsequent flights can easily achieve a reliability rate of 80-90%. Once you have a successful two launches in a row your risk is quite low. Assuming the launch company is competent at change management. Which is the case.
SLS was pushed by the Senate. Both President Obama and NASA were against it. There was supposed to be a design trade off study between possible alternatives before deciding on which course to go after Constellation was cancelled.
Why would you want to send people to space? It's the whole spread forth and multiply thing. The basic drive for any life form.
As for unmanned, eventually someone has to supervise the machines and make high-level management decisions. For some missions the time it takes to get the answer back can be all the difference between a possible mission and an impossible mission. Latency matters.
Circular argument. If we didn't have to maintain the space station, we didn't need to know how to design for space and fire. The rest of the experiments are not very useful either.
The colonization of space is irrelevant to you it seems.
False dilemma. These satellites could have been launched with a cheaper rocket.
Like which one? The Titan IV? It was about as expensive per launch as the Shuttle.
Jerry Yang was also the guy responsible for investing in Alibaba in the first place.
It's always interesting to see "investors" remove founders from running a company because supposedly they don't understand about management, only to watch the company being driven into the ground afterwards. But hey it happened to Steve Jobs, so why shouldn't it happen to other people.
Amazon really isn't profitable. How do you think that they can afford to sell stuff cheaper than everybody else and eat the shipping?
At least here in Europe they used to do it by not paying any VAT to the state and charging you for it nonetheless. Something a physical store can't do.
Dunno about Amazon. But Apple... remember that loan against assets outside the US to distribute a dividend to investors a couple of years back? Just so they could get off paying taxes from profits and still distribute a dividend.
Flash was abused all the time. People used it to design websites that took forever to load with animations and other useless crap, claiming it was leading edge tech, even if the only thing you wanted to get out of the site was a text list. There were perfectly valid uses for it, but it took a long time to standardize the technology in way that would fit with prior W3C standards. Initially the main concern was with the scalable vector graphics and animation. It was initially planned to do it with SVG and Javascript. The specs came out fine. But since Adobe bought Macromedia (Adobe being one of the main proponents behind SVG) they lost interest in SVG on the Web. So the artist tools never materialized on time. As for video, I think browsers have had a video tag or an object tag since like forever. But the problem was always that the W3C did not want patent royalties in any part of the spec including video and audio codecs. So you had a video tag but you didn't know which video formats the browser supported. Macromedia paid MPEG-4 royalties for every Flash plugin that was installed.
Besides, from what I've read separate bathrooms for people of different sex had more to do with saving women from men's boorishness, not rape, and it isn't a deterrent for any would-be rapist to go into the women's bathroom. In fact, separate bathrooms could exacerbate the situation as a non-rapist male isn't nearby to intervene should a rapist be so inclined.
I thought it was just a way to save space by making the men's toilets much smaller than they would be otherwise (urinals take a lot less space). Nearly invariably the men's toilet always less total area than the women's toilet.
One thing that scares me away...I have noticed that MOST of the eye doctors hawking lasik, are wearing GLASSES.
No kidding. You know why? High-order aberrations. Eye surface distortions that cannot be corrected with glasses. Most people can handle living with them but you can see halos, etc. Sometimes its bad enough that some people who did lasik can't drive at night.
I think I said it last time I saw my ophthalmologist that I'll do lasik once I see them do it to themselves.
As for contacts maybe the softer ones are ok, but I've tried the rigid and semi-rigid lenses, and they're just too uncomfortable for me. It's like having sand in your eyes.
The source code they pointed to was header files. You know POSIX API interface header files. Besides most of the claims they made had been shot down beforehand in the BSD/Unix lawsuit decades prior.
All examples of the second system effect. Bloated elephantine solutions to simple problems.
PulseAudio is much worse than OSS. All we needed was mixing. Instead, because they hated the OSS dev, they wrote ALSA (which was a mess). At one point Linus was actively refusing to include ALSA in the kernel. He only accepted it after OSS had no developer. BSD continued using OSS, rewrote the code, added mixing and it works fine there. Because ALSA was a mess from the userspace all sorts of bloated userspace APIs grew on top of it including PulseAudio. That latency addicted sound system. I still remember when I thought OpenAL was going to be *the* user space API. It did everything one needed and it was open-sourced by creative. But for whatever godforsaken reason someone had to come up with PulseAudio and make that standard.
People have been trying to replace X since it came out. The fact is X is perfectly fine as an architecture. Perhaps the higher-end elements of the API don't need to be there (e.g. Xt) but the alternatives to replace X11 proper have lasted less than X has.
As for systemd... All I want to know is why I need to reboot my OS every time I do an Ubuntu update. It didn't use to be necessary. Linux has dynamic loadable module support, every app used to be able to be clearly shutdown and restarted. So why the going back to the Microsoftian past and away from UNIXian roots?
You can't even GIVE your software away. Microsoft will try to squelch all dissension in the places were it matters like their government accounts regardless of what means are necessary. Munich shows this quite clearly.
You're wrong actually. I still remember when Slashdot started and CmdrTaco put ads as images on a server on his own domain. Back then, what I heard, was that they got more money per ad because there were no middlemen and the ad was actually targeted. Now you have computer targeted ads from ad services companies who don't care a damn about each add but they make it up in volume. And it shows.
I still remember Doubleclick and Gator as well. I think Google eventually bought Doubleclick. But Gator... I dunno. I think they vanished through a sink hole.
There are a lot of other techniques using beamed propulsion other than just using photons to push tiny masses around. Ablative laser propulsion for example. It can have enough thrust to weight to get to orbit and it has like twice the ISP of a chemical rocket.
Problem is lasers aren't cheap or high powered enough. Yet.
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In a way having a lower corporate tax rate may promote some form of tax dodging. If the corporation pays less taxes what can easily happen is wealthy individuals will move their property goods including cars, houses, etc to the company in order to evade personal taxes.
The C64 also had a ROM cartridge slot. Just not many games available for it.
The SNES was awesome when it came out. You had plenty of arcade quality ports available for it. First time I saw Street Fighter II on it I was sold on the idea.
For me it's GoG and free to play games like Path of Exile, World of Tanks, Armored Warfare, Mechwarrior Online, etc. At least if the server dies I don't lose any money with it.
Actually it's well known from historical data that after the initial teething issues in a launcher are fixed the subsequent flights can easily achieve a reliability rate of 80-90%. Once you have a successful two launches in a row your risk is quite low. Assuming the launch company is competent at change management. Which is the case.
Remind yourself of that next time you use GPS or something like Google Earth.
SLS was pushed by the Senate. Both President Obama and NASA were against it. There was supposed to be a design trade off study between possible alternatives before deciding on which course to go after Constellation was cancelled.
Why would you want to send people to space? It's the whole spread forth and multiply thing. The basic drive for any life form.
As for unmanned, eventually someone has to supervise the machines and make high-level management decisions. For some missions the time it takes to get the answer back can be all the difference between a possible mission and an impossible mission. Latency matters.
Circular argument. If we didn't have to maintain the space station, we didn't need to know how to design for space and fire. The rest of the experiments are not very useful either.
The colonization of space is irrelevant to you it seems.
False dilemma. These satellites could have been launched with a cheaper rocket.
Like which one? The Titan IV? It was about as expensive per launch as the Shuttle.
I guess you didn't read about how the COTS contract is written did you?
Jerry Yang was also the guy responsible for investing in Alibaba in the first place.
It's always interesting to see "investors" remove founders from running a company because supposedly they don't understand about management, only to watch the company being driven into the ground afterwards. But hey it happened to Steve Jobs, so why shouldn't it happen to other people.
Amazon really isn't profitable. How do you think that they can afford to sell stuff cheaper than everybody else and eat the shipping?
At least here in Europe they used to do it by not paying any VAT to the state and charging you for it nonetheless. Something a physical store can't do.
Dunno about Amazon. But Apple... remember that loan against assets outside the US to distribute a dividend to investors a couple of years back? Just so they could get off paying taxes from profits and still distribute a dividend.
Flash was abused all the time. People used it to design websites that took forever to load with animations and other useless crap, claiming it was leading edge tech, even if the only thing you wanted to get out of the site was a text list. There were perfectly valid uses for it, but it took a long time to standardize the technology in way that would fit with prior W3C standards. Initially the main concern was with the scalable vector graphics and animation. It was initially planned to do it with SVG and Javascript. The specs came out fine. But since Adobe bought Macromedia (Adobe being one of the main proponents behind SVG) they lost interest in SVG on the Web. So the artist tools never materialized on time. As for video, I think browsers have had a video tag or an object tag since like forever. But the problem was always that the W3C did not want patent royalties in any part of the spec including video and audio codecs. So you had a video tag but you didn't know which video formats the browser supported. Macromedia paid MPEG-4 royalties for every Flash plugin that was installed.
Besides, from what I've read separate bathrooms for people of different sex had more to do with saving women from men's boorishness, not rape, and it isn't a deterrent for any would-be rapist to go into the women's bathroom. In fact, separate bathrooms could exacerbate the situation as a non-rapist male isn't nearby to intervene should a rapist be so inclined.
I thought it was just a way to save space by making the men's toilets much smaller than they would be otherwise (urinals take a lot less space). Nearly invariably the men's toilet always less total area than the women's toilet.
One thing that scares me away...I have noticed that MOST of the eye doctors hawking lasik, are wearing GLASSES.
No kidding. You know why? High-order aberrations. Eye surface distortions that cannot be corrected with glasses. Most people can handle living with them but you can see halos, etc. Sometimes its bad enough that some people who did lasik can't drive at night.
I think I said it last time I saw my ophthalmologist that I'll do lasik once I see them do it to themselves.
As for contacts maybe the softer ones are ok, but I've tried the rigid and semi-rigid lenses, and they're just too uncomfortable for me. It's like having sand in your eyes.
What did you expect from a site that basically re-implemented the Usenet on a WWW platform replacing the '.'s with '/'s?
The source code they pointed to was header files. You know POSIX API interface header files. Besides most of the claims they made had been shot down beforehand in the BSD/Unix lawsuit decades prior.
I think the vector graphics games actually aged decently. Take Tempest for example. It looks stylized and neat.
I don't know if I could play some of the 2600 games though. I have enough trouble getting beyond the look of C64 and Spectrum games as it is.
It doesn't help that current music sucks to a large degree.
All examples of the second system effect. Bloated elephantine solutions to simple problems.
PulseAudio is much worse than OSS. All we needed was mixing. Instead, because they hated the OSS dev, they wrote ALSA (which was a mess). At one point Linus was actively refusing to include ALSA in the kernel. He only accepted it after OSS had no developer. BSD continued using OSS, rewrote the code, added mixing and it works fine there. Because ALSA was a mess from the userspace all sorts of bloated userspace APIs grew on top of it including PulseAudio. That latency addicted sound system. I still remember when I thought OpenAL was going to be *the* user space API. It did everything one needed and it was open-sourced by creative. But for whatever godforsaken reason someone had to come up with PulseAudio and make that standard.
People have been trying to replace X since it came out. The fact is X is perfectly fine as an architecture. Perhaps the higher-end elements of the API don't need to be there (e.g. Xt) but the alternatives to replace X11 proper have lasted less than X has.
As for systemd... All I want to know is why I need to reboot my OS every time I do an Ubuntu update. It didn't use to be necessary. Linux has dynamic loadable module support, every app used to be able to be clearly shutdown and restarted. So why the going back to the Microsoftian past and away from UNIXian roots?
Stacker / Doublespace. QDOS / CP/M / DR-DOS. Mosaic / Netscape Navigator / Internet Explorer. etc
You can't even GIVE your software away. Microsoft will try to squelch all dissension in the places were it matters like their government accounts regardless of what means are necessary. Munich shows this quite clearly.
I think the UK has laws regarding junk mail and direct marketing. But this initiative seems to fly in the face of those.
You're wrong actually. I still remember when Slashdot started and CmdrTaco put ads as images on a server on his own domain. Back then, what I heard, was that they got more money per ad because there were no middlemen and the ad was actually targeted. Now you have computer targeted ads from ad services companies who don't care a damn about each add but they make it up in volume. And it shows.
I still remember Doubleclick and Gator as well. I think Google eventually bought Doubleclick. But Gator... I dunno. I think they vanished through a sink hole.
There are a lot of other techniques using beamed propulsion other than just using photons to push tiny masses around. Ablative laser propulsion for example. It can have enough thrust to weight to get to orbit and it has like twice the ISP of a chemical rocket.
Problem is lasers aren't cheap or high powered enough. Yet.
From my experiences a couple of years back JBoss (RedHat, free) was actually more stable than Websphere (IBM, $$$).