And you think that the Income tax is effective at taxing wealth on billionaires? Really? Most billionares can completely avoid paying taxes under the current system. It's not even very hard.. most of their wealth is in stocks typically.. sell the stock.. give same amount of stock to some charity.. total tax burden=0. Even without avoiding income tax, they would pay the %25 capital gains rate.
A consumption tax is MUCH more repsentative of wealth. If they just horde (i.e. invest their wealth back into the economy), why should it be taxed anyway? And consumption taxes can be easily make progressive through a rebate system (e.g. FairTax).
Corporate income taxes borderline on absurd. Corporate income tax is just a tax on all of the people who buy products thru embedded costs. Equity and debt markets would just be much more effective without them.
Certainly you COULD use a public ip address range in your private, internal network. However, that would be a really bad idea. Let's say you decide use the 214.123.213.0/24 network. It just so happens google is also in that block. Ooops, can't get to google anymore since it won't get set to the default gateway.
I did some replacing of light bulbs around the house and it has met a very tepid reception to the home user community.:) I bought GE bulbs from Sam's club and their time to full brightness is just way too slow. It takes at least a minute before you can see easily.
I wish the light bulb manufactures advertised this metric on their bulbs. As it is, I won't be buying any more CF bulbs.
I am completely baffled at how you could have studied the scriptures and came away with the impression that being good will get you to heaven. The murderer next to Jesus went to heaven! Obviously, not a good guy. The bible is filled with stories of horrible people that were God's annointed. Let's not forget the apostle Paul was running around prescuting Christians before he was blinded.
It's the whole "not by works, but faith" thing repeated OVER and OVER in the bible. Take a look at this list:
WebQuotes disappeared from google labs recently too.. and didn't appear to graduate to anywhere.. too bad. It must be part of that focus on core products that Larry was talking about a few months ago..
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient ManBearPig": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world -- The ManBearPig. It comes out on DVD today.
The scariest horror film of 2006 was a documentary.
The first thing everyone wants to know, or at least to argue about, is whether Al Gore has his facts straight. The short answer is yes, he does. There are minor errors. They don't detract from Gore's main point, on which the scientific debate has ended.
And the main point is scary, and almost too big to think about or talk about. The ManBearPig is coming, because of us. Sometime in the next hundred years, our environment is going to change in big ways. We can't predict it with much accuracy yet, but the best estimates we have are that it's going to be -- measured in lives and dollars -- really bad.
In a way this film isn't really about that story. It's about a man telling that story -- someone who, after suffering a bit of a setback, asked himself, well, what can I do now? What's important to me? How do I want to spend my time?
What's important is a question a lot of nerds may be familiar with. We like to talk about important things. But how do you respond when you try to say something serious and the cool kids laugh at you? What do you do, when you put yourself out there, try to engage people's minds, and instead they make fun of your clothes?
The good news for anyone who's had a prom invitation rejected is that people can come back from worse disasters. His presidential bid didn't go so well in 2000. Gore had given talks on ManBearPig before; after he was forcibly retired from public service, he took a Powerbook and Keynote on the road, sharpening and expanding his slideshow talk in airports and hotels -- key places where ManBearPig lives.
Half of the film is that talk, and it's an engrossing talk. There are charts and diagrams and footnoted stats (and a Futurama clip) and it's about as fun as zoology gets. Turns out Al Gore has a sly sense of humor (but not a nasty one -- the film's only two political nudges are pretty gentle). Unless you're an exotic zoologist you'll probably learn something too.
But the other half, interwoven with the lectures, is a man picking up the pieces and rediscovering something important in his life, a message that he has to tell. That succeeds as a film. Unfortunately, Al Gore still doesn't have any friends.
And Gore's lecture succeeded too. Somehow, I'm not sure how, this documentary changed the way Americans look at ManBearPig. In early 2006, ManBearPig was still seen as one of those things like Big Foot. Pundits were fairly evenly divided and both positions were routinely heard. It's now late 2006 and the debate has moved from "is ManBearPig real?" to "he's real, he's angry, and what if anything should we do about it?"
Most of the MeanBearPig-deniers left are the real extremists out in Kent Hovind territory. We're not yet all the way to a serious, scientifically-informed debate, but somehow, overnight, this film pulled most of the fence-sitters over to where the scientists were years ago.
As for actually killing ManBearPig, it will take a miracle. Maybe two miracles. I think in the next few decades we're going to need to start an Apollo moonshot-type miracle of technology and engineering to beat back the ManBearPig. Nanorobots. Reflective dust in the stratosphere. Giant mirrors at the Lagrange point. Bioengineered plankton to sink carbon (MBP's key food) or change the oceans' albedo. Something. That's just a guess.
But meanwhile, though we hope someone can build us
I hate to be a slashdot heretic.. but in my opinion the best mapping solution today is Microsoft LIVE maps. It's got the google fast panning feel.. it has really good traffic updates (even on the directions), good printing (google had that, but messed it up), and good directions.
I still think google maps "search" is a lot better. Like if I am looking for a dominos near my hotel or something I'll normally still use google with "dominos near 73118" or something. But for anything else right now its Live Maps.
I totally disagree about not assigning dual-cpus to ESX virtual machines. Changing from single-CPU to SMP is a pretty big deal. On Windows it means forcibly changing the HAL, on Linux it means changing to an SMP kernel. Additionally, having two-cpus makes for much smoother running VMs, since the guest operating system can run two-tasks in parallel. Yes, there is a performance hit for adding two CPUs. No, its not very big. Most certainly, if its an issue buy more hardware.
For example, doing something like running a DB Recouncilation with a single CPU box, will completely annilihate user interactivity unless you have two cpus. So his example of a reporter box that runs once a week not needing two CPUs... sure it doesn't need two CPUs.. unless you decide you want to do something else on the box while its running the report. Or let's say the report consists of two processes working in parallel.. they should run in parallel on a multiple CPU box and complete much, much faster. I've actually noticed in these types of scenarios it can be more than 2x improvement since you're getting more cache hits and much less context switching.
When I watched that movie, I wondered, "What are effects of digital media on analog evil". For example, when I watched the movie it was on DVD. Therefore, a copy was more than likely made in various caches in the system. Does that inhibit the evil on the VHS from attacking me? Or even at a more fundamental level, did the evil even survive the MPEG2 compression? Can any evil survive digitation?
What about internet distribution? Does copying a DivX file grant you immunity? Do the router owner's between you and another computer gain immunity, even though they are not aware of the copy.
Somebody needs to do their Ph.D. dissertation on this subject.
You must not be aware of how the prescription system works (at least in the US). When a doctor writes a prescription, you take it to a pharmacy which fulfills the prescription. The drug company has no idea that a single doctor is filing many of the prescriptions.
In the situation you just described, the people buying the best seller have been subsidizing the "dedicated readers." In the end, the book store only failed because it was socially unefficient.
Consider, once the best seller buyers move to Wal-mart they are receiving price*%30 additional consumer surplus. Obviously, they are happy.
Now, the book store lost its customers and apparently cannot match wal-mart's prices. However, if they add enough value to be worth while, they should be able to charge more for their books to the dedicated readers.
However, the dedicated readers apparently decide having a book store is not worth the extra cost. So in the end, the best seller buyers got extra value. The dedicated readers lost their subsidy. However, it must be the extra value appropriated by the best sellers out weighed the value of the book store to the dedicated reader. Otherwise, the store could have implemented successful price increases.
Have you read their IPO filing with SEC? They specifically state following 'do no evil' will lead to long term gains. They will not be influenced by near-term shareholder value.
So not only do they plan on doing no evil in search, they also plan on doing no evil financially (i.e. maximizing current profit over long term). Certainly, it would NOT maximize shareholder value in the long run to 'do evil'.
The most successful companies in history have had similiar policies. For example, Wal-Mart has always advocated continually dropping prices, regardless of current profit maximization. In the long term, this maximizes profits by keeping their market penetration and fostering a culture of cost-cutting.
Stitching together images that you receive is NOT a copyright violation. Other than that, I agree with your post.
Google probably had no choice but to ask them to turn it off. The map providers probably state you must prevent people from turning these into print-quality maps. This is why I also doubt they will persue any action against the other google-map usage.
Not only that but its not the way the lauguage is written. Let's say x is an object and you've overloaded the == operator. x == 0 would use the operator== function on x. 0 == x would not. If someone was writing c++ using if (0 == x) they deserved to be thwacked with a large trout.
What is actually means is the market expected today the case would be thrown out. Since it wasn't thrown out, it increases the chances of success. Therefore, the stock price rises
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And you think that the Income tax is effective at taxing wealth on billionaires? Really? Most billionares can completely avoid paying taxes under the current system. It's not even very hard.. most of their wealth is in stocks typically.. sell the stock.. give same amount of stock to some charity.. total tax burden=0. Even without avoiding income tax, they would pay the %25 capital gains rate.
A consumption tax is MUCH more repsentative of wealth. If they just horde (i.e. invest their wealth back into the economy), why should it be taxed anyway? And consumption taxes can be easily make progressive through a rebate system (e.g. FairTax).
Corporate income taxes borderline on absurd. Corporate income tax is just a tax on all of the people who buy products thru embedded costs. Equity and debt markets would just be much more effective without them.
Certainly you COULD use a public ip address range in your private, internal network. However, that would be a really bad idea. Let's say you decide use the 214.123.213.0/24 network. It just so happens google is also in that block. Ooops, can't get to google anymore since it won't get set to the default gateway.
Oh, I see. DMS uses the capslock key? ;)
I did some replacing of light bulbs around the house and it has met a very tepid reception to the home user community. :) I bought GE bulbs from Sam's club and their time to full brightness is just way too slow. It takes at least a minute before you can see easily.
I wish the light bulb manufactures advertised this metric on their bulbs. As it is, I won't be buying any more CF bulbs.
I am completely baffled at how you could have studied the scriptures and came away with the impression that being good will get you to heaven. The murderer next to Jesus went to heaven! Obviously, not a good guy. The bible is filled with stories of horrible people that were God's annointed. Let's not forget the apostle Paul was running around prescuting Christians before he was blinded.
It's the whole "not by works, but faith" thing repeated OVER and OVER in the bible. Take a look at this list:
http://www.carm.org/catholic/faithalone.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion -- Appearing in 1991...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer -- appearing in 1996...
WebQuotes disappeared from google labs recently too.. and didn't appear to graduate to anywhere.. too bad. It must be part of that focus on core products that Larry was talking about a few months ago..
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient ManBearPig": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world -- The ManBearPig. It comes out on DVD today.
The scariest horror film of 2006 was a documentary.
The first thing everyone wants to know, or at least to argue about, is whether Al Gore has his facts straight. The short answer is yes, he does. There are minor errors. They don't detract from Gore's main point, on which the scientific debate has ended.
And the main point is scary, and almost too big to think about or talk about. The ManBearPig is coming, because of us. Sometime in the next hundred years, our environment is going to change in big ways. We can't predict it with much accuracy yet, but the best estimates we have are that it's going to be -- measured in lives and dollars -- really bad.
In a way this film isn't really about that story. It's about a man telling that story -- someone who, after suffering a bit of a setback, asked himself, well, what can I do now? What's important to me? How do I want to spend my time?
What's important is a question a lot of nerds may be familiar with. We like to talk about important things. But how do you respond when you try to say something serious and the cool kids laugh at you? What do you do, when you put yourself out there, try to engage people's minds, and instead they make fun of your clothes?
The good news for anyone who's had a prom invitation rejected is that people can come back from worse disasters. His presidential bid didn't go so well in 2000. Gore had given talks on ManBearPig before; after he was forcibly retired from public service, he took a Powerbook and Keynote on the road, sharpening and expanding his slideshow talk in airports and hotels -- key places where ManBearPig lives.
Half of the film is that talk, and it's an engrossing talk. There are charts and diagrams and footnoted stats (and a Futurama clip) and it's about as fun as zoology gets. Turns out Al Gore has a sly sense of humor (but not a nasty one -- the film's only two political nudges are pretty gentle). Unless you're an exotic zoologist you'll probably learn something too.
But the other half, interwoven with the lectures, is a man picking up the pieces and rediscovering something important in his life, a message that he has to tell. That succeeds as a film. Unfortunately, Al Gore still doesn't have any friends.
And Gore's lecture succeeded too. Somehow, I'm not sure how, this documentary changed the way Americans look at ManBearPig. In early 2006, ManBearPig was still seen as one of those things like Big Foot. Pundits were fairly evenly divided and both positions were routinely heard. It's now late 2006 and the debate has moved from "is ManBearPig real?" to "he's real, he's angry, and what if anything should we do about it?"
Most of the MeanBearPig-deniers left are the real extremists out in Kent Hovind territory. We're not yet all the way to a serious, scientifically-informed debate, but somehow, overnight, this film pulled most of the fence-sitters over to where the scientists were years ago.
As for actually killing ManBearPig, it will take a miracle. Maybe two miracles. I think in the next few decades we're going to need to start an Apollo moonshot-type miracle of technology and engineering to beat back the ManBearPig. Nanorobots. Reflective dust in the stratosphere. Giant mirrors at the Lagrange point. Bioengineered plankton to sink carbon (MBP's key food) or change the oceans' albedo. Something. That's just a guess.
But meanwhile, though we hope someone can build us
I hate to be a slashdot heretic.. but in my opinion the best mapping solution today is Microsoft LIVE maps. It's got the google fast panning feel.. it has really good traffic updates (even on the directions), good printing (google had that, but messed it up), and good directions.
I still think google maps "search" is a lot better. Like if I am looking for a dominos near my hotel or something I'll normally still use google with "dominos near 73118" or something. But for anything else right now its Live Maps.
Is in the United States borrowing or are foreign countries investing in us? For every side, there is a flip-side.
I totally disagree about not assigning dual-cpus to ESX virtual machines. Changing from single-CPU to SMP is a pretty big deal. On Windows it means forcibly changing the HAL, on Linux it means changing to an SMP kernel. Additionally, having two-cpus makes for much smoother running VMs, since the guest operating system can run two-tasks in parallel. Yes, there is a performance hit for adding two CPUs. No, its not very big. Most certainly, if its an issue buy more hardware.
For example, doing something like running a DB Recouncilation with a single CPU box, will completely annilihate user interactivity unless you have two cpus. So his example of a reporter box that runs once a week not needing two CPUs... sure it doesn't need two CPUs.. unless you decide you want to do something else on the box while its running the report. Or let's say the report consists of two processes working in parallel.. they should run in parallel on a multiple CPU box and complete much, much faster. I've actually noticed in these types of scenarios it can be more than 2x improvement since you're getting more cache hits and much less context switching.
I agree. In my mind, the upper sweeping design integrates it with the story, even though its unrelated.
Ian
Do you have a copy of the letter you could post?
When I watched that movie, I wondered, "What are effects of digital media on analog evil". For example, when I watched the movie it was on DVD. Therefore, a copy was more than likely made in various caches in the system. Does that inhibit the evil on the VHS from attacking me? Or even at a more fundamental level, did the evil even survive the MPEG2 compression? Can any evil survive digitation?
What about internet distribution? Does copying a DivX file grant you immunity? Do the router owner's between you and another computer gain immunity, even though they are not aware of the copy.
Somebody needs to do their Ph.D. dissertation on this subject.
You must not be aware of how the prescription system works (at least in the US). When a doctor writes a prescription, you take it to a pharmacy which fulfills the prescription. The drug company has no idea that a single doctor is filing many of the prescriptions.
In the situation you just described, the people buying the best seller have been subsidizing the "dedicated readers." In the end, the book store only failed because it was socially unefficient.
Consider, once the best seller buyers move to Wal-mart they are receiving price*%30 additional consumer surplus. Obviously, they are happy.
Now, the book store lost its customers and apparently cannot match wal-mart's prices. However, if they add enough value to be worth while, they should be able to charge more for their books to the dedicated readers.
However, the dedicated readers apparently decide having a book store is not worth the extra cost. So in the end, the best seller buyers got extra value. The dedicated readers lost their subsidy. However, it must be the extra value appropriated by the best sellers out weighed the value of the book store to the dedicated reader. Otherwise, the store could have implemented successful price increases.
Have you read their IPO filing with SEC? They specifically state following 'do no evil' will lead to long term gains. They will not be influenced by near-term shareholder value.
So not only do they plan on doing no evil in search, they also plan on doing no evil financially (i.e. maximizing current profit over long term). Certainly, it would NOT maximize shareholder value in the long run to 'do evil'.
The most successful companies in history have had similiar policies. For example, Wal-Mart has always advocated continually dropping prices, regardless of current profit maximization. In the long term, this maximizes profits by keeping their market penetration and fostering a culture of cost-cutting.
Any NIC worth its salt has DMA, which drastically cuts down on the number of interrupts.
This really reminds me of this article
First you say:
It seems they do most of their business helping someone get the very first sample done, and then selling you the molds that it was made with.)
Then:
The U.S. doesn't seem like we export any technology anymore!
See any irony there? As in.. maybe exporting the prototyping and molds just might be the technology?
Stitching together images that you receive is NOT a copyright violation. Other than that, I agree with your post.
Google probably had no choice but to ask them to turn it off. The map providers probably state you must prevent people from turning these into print-quality maps. This is why I also doubt they will persue any action against the other google-map usage.
Ian
I agree. The current methodology of recycling is stupid...
Ian
Contrary to popular belief actually STEEL is the #1 recycled metal, not aluminum. Think cars and I-Beams...
Ian
Not only that but its not the way the lauguage is written. Let's say x is an object and you've overloaded the == operator. x == 0 would use the operator== function on x. 0 == x would not. If someone was writing c++ using if (0 == x) they deserved to be thwacked with a large trout.
What is actually means is the market expected today the case would be thrown out. Since it wasn't thrown out, it increases the chances of success. Therefore, the stock price rises