He is (born Australian, naturalized 1985), but is so solely due to the FCC requirement that US television station owners be US citizens. Not a personal history that screams "love of country" for either the US or Australia.
At interstellar distances and the [near|above]-c speeds needed to traverse them, simultaneity (if even a valid concept) requires much more sweat and tears than an offset.
Just curious - can you elaborate how that's even possible (for but one of many examples, how have you ever made a downpayment on anything even medium-sized if that's true) ? Do you live off the grid? Are you weasel-wording "cash"? Are you paid for your work in stock certificates? Do you have a hole full of doubloons in the backyard? And how are you planning to retire?
Huh? 3D animation was on the desktop long before Jobs had anything to do with Pixar. Imagine 3D, Autodesk 3D Studio, and Lightwave (which started life as part of the Amiga-powered Video Toaster) brought real 3D animation tools to the desktop in the early 90s. While many of the great visionaries who laid the foundations of 3D animation ended up at Pixar, Pixar's Renderman-related patents also arguably held back the industry somewhat.
And anyway, John Lasseter's genius directorial skills have a great deal more to do with Pixar's longstanding success than anything technological. Cars 2 was the first real dud from the studio after what, 12 features including a trilogy that didn't suck? And the graphics in Red's Dream are 1st-year student work by today's standards (although groundbreaking for the time), but the timing is brilliantly expressive and the script still makes you care about that unicycle 20-something years later.
Anyway, back on topic - RIP Steve. I never liked using your computers myself, but I liked that they existed and I liked the things other people found easy to do with them.
Oil changes are $20-$30 in the US (assuming you don't want to do it yourself), which makes $420 worst-case for the oil changes.
I just picked up a set of sparkplugs for my Mazda6 at Autozone for $18. And they were the fancy iridium ones, too. Even if you had to buy a socket wrench, spark plug socket, and extender for both changes the total can't be over $100.
Sure, getting a timing belt done is relatively expensive, but they're generally an "every 100,000 miles" item, and no more than $300 on any car I've owned.
Did your high school physics include the concept of an anode and a cathode, with the negative/positive ions bubbling up from each, and the necessity of the divider referred to in the summary?
ESPN is Disney/ABC. Disney strongarms cable operators into carrying a bunch of channels they may or may not want by requiring ESPN as a prerequisite for buying any of them. This pushes up Disney's viewership numbers and hence their advertising prices.
Because religion has things to say about the fuzzier aspects of life - ethics, beauty, community, wonder, and love, to name a few examples - that science doesn't have much relevance to.
Um, I think there is, although you might be making some obscure point I don't understand because I don't spend all day on anti AGW sites:
Climate during the Carboniferous Period
from the fine article:
Average global temperatures in the Early Carboniferous Period were hot- approximately 20 C (68 F). However, cooling during the Middle Carboniferous reduced average global temperatures to about 12 C (54 F). As shown on the chart below, this is comparable to the average global temperature on Earth today!
Similarly, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Early Carboniferous Period were approximately 1500 ppm (parts per million), but by the Middle Carboniferous had declined to about 350 ppm -- comparable to average CO2 concentrations today!
Earth's atmosphere today contains about 380 ppm CO2 (0.038%). Compared to former geologic times, our present atmosphere, like the Late Carboniferous atmosphere, is CO2- impoverished! In the last 600 million years of Earth's history only the Carboniferous Period and our present age, the Quaternary Period, have witnessed CO2 levels less than 400 ppm.
If you're talking about something else I'd sincerely be interested in reading about it.
Even if you cut down a forest, plant-based fuels are still carbon neutral, since a more or less fixed amount of carbon is available at the surface/in the atmosphere within this geological period. Fossil fuels add carbon to the entire system by releasing carbon formerly trapped deep in rock formations.
...but it can't handle an open-ended stopover request like "the closest Target to the highway between here and my brother's house 2 states over so we can get a toy for our niece"
Wow, wrong in just about every declarative statement. You're either remarkably dense, deliberately obtuse, or an excellent troll. Let's take them one by one:
Let's say I own a corporation.
In which case it's privately held, and there isn't really such a thing as a 'stock price' since there's no market.
Since I own the corporation, that money is mine.
No, it belongs to the corporation, which is a legally separate person from yourself. That's the whole point of limited liability. You can have your corporation pay you dividends (taxed as income) or a salary (subject to payroll taxes and FICA on the corporate side and then taxed as income and FICA on your side) to transfer the money to yourself, or you can sell your stock (taxed as capital gains).
If the corporation keeps the money, it can spend the money on goods and services, and pay corporate tax on the profits left over.
The value of my stock goes up because the corporation now has more cash.
While cash on hand is indeed listed as an asset on a balance sheet, it isn't anything like a valuation of the company, which takes into account both tangible things like factories and machinery and intangible things like current profitability and future expectations of growth.
I then pay additional taxes, even though my money hasn't changed hands a second time.
No, money changes hands a second time when you sell the stock to a third party. Capital gains only comes into play when you actually receive money - it's not a tax on the value of an asset. You traded stock for cash. Money changed hands. A second time. And the first time around it wasn't your money anyway, it was the company's.
If you're the government you could force the tool vendors to develop the new ones for Linux.
CATIA and Solidworks are sold by a partnership of IBM and a huge French aerospace conglomerate. If Linux-champion IBM hasn't ported them (especially since they are supported on a few non-x86 UNIX variants), you can bet there's a good reason.
Oh, you want NX / I-DEAS instead? Well, then you just need to convince Siemens to roll over for you.
Or do you want to slum it and use something by Autodesk? The day they release a homegrown product for Linux (their ludicrously many acquired products are sometimes a different story) is the day hell freezes over.
You want to roll your own PLM software? Ha. And ha-ha. With a worldwide installed base of maybe 100k seats for all packages, and a pricetag in the five figures per seat, there's no way to make the numbers make sense.
"The Department of Agriculture spends $12 billion to $30 billion annually on farm subsidies, the vast majority of which go to agribusinesses and farmers averaging $135,000 in annual income."
AND? annual income? so the fuck what. How much is profit?
If you're a farmer, either your farm is a corporation of some kind that is paying you over $135,000/yr, or you file a schedule F on your federal return where the farm's income and expenses are tallied up and the total goes to your 1040 as income. In other words, profit.
Only dabbled in pure AS development, so this may be a naive question, but what does Visual Studio do for Silverlight development that a Flash IDE like FlashDevelop doesn't?
The number of small business users I've seen putting their business on GMail so their office desktop, home desktop, blackberry/iPhone, and iPad can all have email and (more importantly to many) address books synced between all their devices is quite high. None of them want to write actual documents or spreadsheets on anything but a real computer, however.
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He is (born Australian, naturalized 1985), but is so solely due to the FCC requirement that US television station owners be US citizens. Not a personal history that screams "love of country" for either the US or Australia.
At interstellar distances and the [near|above]-c speeds needed to traverse them, simultaneity (if even a valid concept) requires much more sweat and tears than an offset.
I stand corrected.
Just curious - can you elaborate how that's even possible (for but one of many examples, how have you ever made a downpayment on anything even medium-sized if that's true) ? Do you live off the grid? Are you weasel-wording "cash"? Are you paid for your work in stock certificates? Do you have a hole full of doubloons in the backyard? And how are you planning to retire?
Huh? 3D animation was on the desktop long before Jobs had anything to do with Pixar. Imagine 3D, Autodesk 3D Studio, and Lightwave (which started life as part of the Amiga-powered Video Toaster) brought real 3D animation tools to the desktop in the early 90s. While many of the great visionaries who laid the foundations of 3D animation ended up at Pixar, Pixar's Renderman-related patents also arguably held back the industry somewhat.
And anyway, John Lasseter's genius directorial skills have a great deal more to do with Pixar's longstanding success than anything technological. Cars 2 was the first real dud from the studio after what, 12 features including a trilogy that didn't suck? And the graphics in Red's Dream are 1st-year student work by today's standards (although groundbreaking for the time), but the timing is brilliantly expressive and the script still makes you care about that unicycle 20-something years later.
Anyway, back on topic - RIP Steve. I never liked using your computers myself, but I liked that they existed and I liked the things other people found easy to do with them.
Oil changes are $20-$30 in the US (assuming you don't want to do it yourself), which makes $420 worst-case for the oil changes.
I just picked up a set of sparkplugs for my Mazda6 at Autozone for $18. And they were the fancy iridium ones, too. Even if you had to buy a socket wrench, spark plug socket, and extender for both changes the total can't be over $100.
Sure, getting a timing belt done is relatively expensive, but they're generally an "every 100,000 miles" item, and no more than $300 on any car I've owned.
Where are you getting your $1600 figure from?
Did your high school physics include the concept of an anode and a cathode, with the negative/positive ions bubbling up from each, and the necessity of the divider referred to in the summary?
Agreed, but it needs Live Bookmarks that aren't a pain in the ass.
So then why does adblock exist for Chrome?
You want tort reform? Try single-payer healthcare. That would reform those torts right off the map.
ESPN is Disney/ABC. Disney strongarms cable operators into carrying a bunch of channels they may or may not want by requiring ESPN as a prerequisite for buying any of them. This pushes up Disney's viewership numbers and hence their advertising prices.
Because religion has things to say about the fuzzier aspects of life - ethics, beauty, community, wonder, and love, to name a few examples - that science doesn't have much relevance to.
True, Chuck does a lot of good work. Shame about his hate for model rocketry.
Um, I think there is, although you might be making some obscure point I don't understand because I don't spend all day on anti AGW sites:
Climate during the Carboniferous Period
from the fine article:
If you're talking about something else I'd sincerely be interested in reading about it.
Even if you cut down a forest, plant-based fuels are still carbon neutral, since a more or less fixed amount of carbon is available at the surface/in the atmosphere within this geological period. Fossil fuels add carbon to the entire system by releasing carbon formerly trapped deep in rock formations.
That's very cool. I'll have to remember that when my aging Garmin croaks.
...but it can't handle an open-ended stopover request like "the closest Target to the highway between here and my brother's house 2 states over so we can get a toy for our niece"
7.5% for SE tax plus $25,000/year at the top end for health benefits still doesn't equal double.
Can you unpack that a little bit? Or did you mean $40k?
Wow, wrong in just about every declarative statement. You're either remarkably dense, deliberately obtuse, or an excellent troll. Let's take them one by one:
In which case it's privately held, and there isn't really such a thing as a 'stock price' since there's no market.
No, it belongs to the corporation, which is a legally separate person from yourself. That's the whole point of limited liability. You can have your corporation pay you dividends (taxed as income) or a salary (subject to payroll taxes and FICA on the corporate side and then taxed as income and FICA on your side) to transfer the money to yourself, or you can sell your stock (taxed as capital gains).
If the corporation keeps the money, it can spend the money on goods and services, and pay corporate tax on the profits left over.
While cash on hand is indeed listed as an asset on a balance sheet, it isn't anything like a valuation of the company, which takes into account both tangible things like factories and machinery and intangible things like current profitability and future expectations of growth.
No, money changes hands a second time when you sell the stock to a third party. Capital gains only comes into play when you actually receive money - it's not a tax on the value of an asset. You traded stock for cash. Money changed hands. A second time. And the first time around it wasn't your money anyway, it was the company's.
CATIA and Solidworks are sold by a partnership of IBM and a huge French aerospace conglomerate. If Linux-champion IBM hasn't ported them (especially since they are supported on a few non-x86 UNIX variants), you can bet there's a good reason.
Oh, you want NX / I-DEAS instead? Well, then you just need to convince Siemens to roll over for you.
Or do you want to slum it and use something by Autodesk? The day they release a homegrown product for Linux (their ludicrously many acquired products are sometimes a different story) is the day hell freezes over.
You want to roll your own PLM software? Ha. And ha-ha. With a worldwide installed base of maybe 100k seats for all packages, and a pricetag in the five figures per seat, there's no way to make the numbers make sense.
Nah, any proper time travel device will be protected by Patent #1
If you're a farmer, either your farm is a corporation of some kind that is paying you over $135,000/yr, or you file a schedule F on your federal return where the farm's income and expenses are tallied up and the total goes to your 1040 as income. In other words, profit.
Only dabbled in pure AS development, so this may be a naive question, but what does Visual Studio do for Silverlight development that a Flash IDE like FlashDevelop doesn't?
The number of small business users I've seen putting their business on GMail so their office desktop, home desktop, blackberry/iPhone, and iPad can all have email and (more importantly to many) address books synced between all their devices is quite high. None of them want to write actual documents or spreadsheets on anything but a real computer, however.