> its compiler isn't any more well tuned than Intel's.
Yes and no; while they havn't spent more time tunning it, the PowerPC instruction set was designed to be very easy for compilers to optimize for. This leads to an optimizing compiler being far more important on the PowerPC line then on the x86 line. Hence the IBM compiler probably produces better code for the PowerPC then the Intel Compiler for the x86.
Also IBM chip production tech tends to be between 6 and 9 months ahead of Intel, and their chips tends to use less power at the transistor level.
> its compiler isn't any more well tuned than Intel's.
Yes and no; while they havn't spent more time tunning it, the PowerPC instruction set was designed to be very easy for compilers to optimize for. This leads to an optimizing compiler being far more important on the PowerPC line then on the x86 line. Hence the IBM compiler probably produces better code for the PowerPC then the Intel Compiler for the x86.
Also IBM chip production tech tends to be between 6 and 9 months ahead of Intel, and their chips tends to use less power at the transistor level.
ummm, hate to rain on your parade but apple uses industry standards in newer boards: OpenFirmware, USB, Hypertransport. To do what you are suggesting would mean dropping standards compliance, something that runs counter to their profit model.
You either didn't RTFA. Or need to improve your reading skills.
He is not worried about any of the issues you stated. His concern is allowing companies who buy UserLinux to use the toolkits to develop propriety applications (which you can do with GTK+ and PostgreSQL). With Qt and MySQL you have to use the GPL as your license, while this isn't bad, it is a sticking point for many companies that can be avoided.
Broadband is still hard to get in rural parts of the US.
Walking/bikeing/driving for 5-10 minutes to pick up a few 700MB isos is still going to be faster for 90% of the people out there for some time to come.
> For tax purposes, interest, short term capital gains, and profits count as wages.
Yes, but trust funds arn't taxed, nor are corporate "benefits", nor are my stocks until I SELL them, nor are treasury bonds. Furthermore most bussiness costs, and "benefits" can all be written off to further reduce the taxes you have to pay.
> Corporate profits are taxed at a higher rate, then taxed again when distributed to shareholders.
Personal corporations pay a lower tax rate then an individual of the same income. The profits of any corporation are only taxed a second time if they are distributed as dividends.
Unfortunately, if I can afford accountants and lawyers I can pay less tax then then a middle class family and still make more money. On the other hand if I am working class, not only does the income tax system work against me, but I get screwed by payroll taxes.
This is getting off topic, point was (and I hope you'll agree), that Bush's tax cuts helped middle class and upper-middle class americans. Unfortunately it's a bandaid on a gapping wound, the tax system is a tangled, nasty, unfair mess that needs fixing.
Ummm, last I checked the democrats were the party of rich white boys. They get more large donations, and if the makeup of the party is any way reflective of their representation on the senate, they have vastly more wealth then the republicans.
That's why I'm in favor of eliminating payroll taxes, and moving to a flat rate income tax that is the same as corporate income tax.
There would be automatic tax credits based off of which quartile you fall into in your local area. And the rate would "slide" based off of the budget; that is the OMB would set an estimated tax rate based off the the approved budget plus tax credits. If it came in under, americans would have to pay more come april, if it came in over, they'd get money back.
Of course, this would never happen, as it would encourage fiscal responsibility and take a hot political issue off of the table. But I can dream...
Technically my statement only applies if the firefighter is single or the spouse is equally paid (not surprising with the high cost of living in the city).
By interesting contrast, people living at or below the national poverty line can aford to buy houses in some rural parts of the country. My point was that the tax system is unfair, and that defining "rich" by income was myopic, as the truely rich don't have income in the traditional (and taxable) sense.
That depends on your definition of liberal and wether the context is social or economic. In America this is generally true. But, Thomas Jefferson was also "liberal" but his ideas lie closer to the modern republicans then the democrats. I would say that the left is a specific flavor of liberalism, and the right a specific flavor of conservativeism.
You are deluded if you think wage-earners are the wealthy of this country. The truely wealthy don't work for money, the have money "work for them" by investing it, and owning bussinesses. If you are a top wage earner, you are, by definition, upper-middle class. If Rush thinks otherwise, he's been on more then pain medication.
>Look, ultimately we were going to have to deal with Iraq because sanctions don't work.
I'll agree there.
> there was no threat of weapons...
I could care less about WMD. We helped put the SOB into power and inflicted him on the world, and the people of Iraq. He was our responsibility and we were morally obligated to deal with him and pay the associated costs. That's what we get for laying down with the wolves. If we had to use the pretext of WMD to get the country to go along with it, so be it.
BTW, at the UN we claimed Sadam had WMD programs not functional weapons, although we said it was likely that he had weapons capability. The programs alone violated the 1991 deal. No evidence has contradited this basic point, although both sides have spun it to hell and back....
It's an American political term (we've got way to many of them, and they are all blury, and ill-defined). I'm going to try to answer your question (and probably screw up).
1 & 2 mean that Dean is socially libral (part of being "left") 3 is a possition of the "left" 4,5,&6 are the opposite of the "right" which favors strong, proactive foreign pollicy
By implication Dean is "left".
Note: the left v. right thing is separate from the libral v. conservative thing.
Further Note: the middle ground in america is more conservative (and hence "to the right") on most issues then our European counterparts.
> it's hard to argue that this has been a successful campaign. He and his administration have FUBAR'd this operation completely through their inept planning.
Hind sight is alwasy 20:20.
Alright, were you president, how would you have done this differently? I don't like that our boys are dieing over there, but I'm not going to bitch unless I can say: "we should have done x instead of y and I'd have known this at the time because of z."
FYI, NYC firefighters fall into the highest income tax bracket.
Oh, let me let you in a little secret too: rich people don't pay income taxes. They hire lawyers and accountants to put their money in trust funds, privately held corporations, and off shore accounts. Only the poor and the middle class are dumb enough to pay income tax.
FYI, they were all over it in the previous election. Bush broke the recode with hard money donations then. And if you RTA Morris claims the Republicans have a few million email addresses already.
I thought I read that MD5 had some problems as well (that's why OpenBSD uses Blowfish). I think it had something to do with the hashes not being evenly and randomly distributed over the possible space. Anyone who knows more about this care to comment?
People have said this so many times before, I'm going to wait until I see it. There have always been papers that went to "fundamental principles" to figure out the limits. And guess what? because of those papers the engineers worked around them!
For example, recently it was predicted that the fundamental limit of lithography was.25 micron resolution. Because of the calculations in that paper, phase-shift masks were invented to work around the problem.
The same thing will probably happen here. Someone will invent a different transistor (one that probably uses tunnelling to work!)
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> its compiler isn't any more well tuned than Intel's.
Yes and no; while they havn't spent more time tunning it, the PowerPC instruction set was designed to be very easy for compilers to optimize for. This leads to an optimizing compiler being far more important on the PowerPC line then on the x86 line. Hence the IBM compiler probably produces better code for the PowerPC then the Intel Compiler for the x86.
Also IBM chip production tech tends to be between 6 and 9 months ahead of Intel, and their chips tends to use less power at the transistor level.
> its compiler isn't any more well tuned than Intel's. Yes and no; while they havn't spent more time tunning it, the PowerPC instruction set was designed to be very easy for compilers to optimize for. This leads to an optimizing compiler being far more important on the PowerPC line then on the x86 line. Hence the IBM compiler probably produces better code for the PowerPC then the Intel Compiler for the x86. Also IBM chip production tech tends to be between 6 and 9 months ahead of Intel, and their chips tends to use less power at the transistor level.
ummm, hate to rain on your parade but apple uses industry standards in newer boards: OpenFirmware, USB, Hypertransport. To do what you are suggesting would mean dropping standards compliance, something that runs counter to their profit model.
The OpenBSD main site runs on Solaris because it's hosted for FREE at a sunsite.
He is not worried about any of the issues you stated. His concern is allowing companies who buy UserLinux to use the toolkits to develop propriety applications (which you can do with GTK+ and PostgreSQL). With Qt and MySQL you have to use the GPL as your license, while this isn't bad, it is a sticking point for many companies that can be avoided.
Broadband is still hard to get in rural parts of the US.
Walking/bikeing/driving for 5-10 minutes to pick up a few 700MB isos is still going to be faster for 90% of the people out there for some time to come.
Yes, but trust funds arn't taxed, nor are corporate "benefits", nor are my stocks until I SELL them, nor are treasury bonds. Furthermore most bussiness costs, and "benefits" can all be written off to further reduce the taxes you have to pay.
> Corporate profits are taxed at a higher rate, then taxed again when distributed to shareholders.
Personal corporations pay a lower tax rate then an individual of the same income. The profits of any corporation are only taxed a second time if they are distributed as dividends.
Unfortunately, if I can afford accountants and lawyers I can pay less tax then then a middle class family and still make more money. On the other hand if I am working class, not only does the income tax system work against me, but I get screwed by payroll taxes.
This is getting off topic, point was (and I hope you'll agree), that Bush's tax cuts helped middle class and upper-middle class americans. Unfortunately it's a bandaid on a gapping wound, the tax system is a tangled, nasty, unfair mess that needs fixing.
Ummm, last I checked the democrats were the party of rich white boys. They get more large donations, and if the makeup of the party is any way reflective of their representation on the senate, they have vastly more wealth then the republicans.
That's why I'm in favor of eliminating payroll taxes, and moving to a flat rate income tax that is the same as corporate income tax.
There would be automatic tax credits based off of which quartile you fall into in your local area. And the rate would "slide" based off of the budget; that is the OMB would set an estimated tax rate based off the the approved budget plus tax credits. If it came in under, americans would have to pay more come april, if it came in over, they'd get money back.
Of course, this would never happen, as it would encourage fiscal responsibility and take a hot political issue off of the table. But I can dream...
Well, I'll tell you, I don't like anyone who's running. But at this point, Bush looks to me like the least of all evils.
That number is for a joint return.
Technically my statement only applies if the firefighter is single or the spouse is equally paid (not surprising with the high cost of living in the city).
By interesting contrast, people living at or below the national poverty line can aford to buy houses in some rural parts of the country. My point was that the tax system is unfair, and that defining "rich" by income was myopic, as the truely rich don't have income in the traditional (and taxable) sense.
That depends on your definition of liberal and wether the context is social or economic. In America this is generally true. But, Thomas Jefferson was also "liberal" but his ideas lie closer to the modern republicans then the democrats. I would say that the left is a specific flavor of liberalism, and the right a specific flavor of conservativeism.
You are deluded if you think wage-earners are the wealthy of this country. The truely wealthy don't work for money, the have money "work for them" by investing it, and owning bussinesses. If you are a top wage earner, you are, by definition, upper-middle class. If Rush thinks otherwise, he's been on more then pain medication.
I'll agree there.
> there was no threat of weapons...
I could care less about WMD. We helped put the SOB into power and inflicted him on the world, and the people of Iraq. He was our responsibility and we were morally obligated to deal with him and pay the associated costs. That's what we get for laying down with the wolves. If we had to use the pretext of WMD to get the country to go along with it, so be it.
BTW, at the UN we claimed Sadam had WMD programs not functional weapons, although we said it was likely that he had weapons capability. The programs alone violated the 1991 deal. No evidence has contradited this basic point, although both sides have spun it to hell and back....
It's an American political term (we've got way to many of them, and they are all blury, and ill-defined). I'm going to try to answer your question (and probably screw up).
1 & 2 mean that Dean is socially libral (part of being "left")
3 is a possition of the "left"
4,5,&6 are the opposite of the "right" which favors strong, proactive foreign pollicy
By implication Dean is "left".
Note: the left v. right thing is separate from the libral v. conservative thing.
Further Note: the middle ground in america is more conservative (and hence "to the right") on most issues then our European counterparts.
I could be wrong but I thought that was THE selling point of the Nikon digital SLRs.
Hind sight is alwasy 20:20.
Alright, were you president, how would you have done this differently? I don't like that our boys are dieing over there, but I'm not going to bitch unless I can say: "we should have done x instead of y and I'd have known this at the time because of z."
Oh, let me let you in a little secret too: rich people don't pay income taxes. They hire lawyers and accountants to put their money in trust funds, privately held corporations, and off shore accounts. Only the poor and the middle class are dumb enough to pay income tax.
FYI, they were all over it in the previous election. Bush broke the recode with hard money donations then. And if you RTA Morris claims the Republicans have a few million email addresses already.
However, these games were designed for the low latency of a LAN, I'm not seeing how they manage to work all that well over the internet.
Also isn't warp pipe the idiots who put their stuff on sourceforge and then tried to say it wasn't open source? Or was that some other group?
I thought I read that MD5 had some problems as well (that's why OpenBSD uses Blowfish). I think it had something to do with the hashes not being evenly and randomly distributed over the possible space. Anyone who knows more about this care to comment?
I was under the impression that Oracle started as a cheep competitor to IBM's RDBMS. That would make IBM the innovator.
For example, recently it was predicted that the fundamental limit of lithography was .25 micron resolution. Because of the calculations in that paper, phase-shift masks were invented to work around the problem.
The same thing will probably happen here. Someone will invent a different transistor (one that probably uses tunnelling to work!)
While I don't think you'll get an LED display within 10 years, you'll probably be getting LED headlights and lightbulbs.
Reiser is claiming to have basic commit/rollback for Reiser4. I don't know anything about it, or how reliable/useful it will be though.