There's no problem immigrating to the US via legal channels. Unless you're talking about a specific subset of immigrants who don't give a shit about anything, any laws, and will do whatever regardless of what anyone else says.
Not too sure I want that specific subset around. If they do care and are desperate enough, just marry a citizen or something. Problem solved. Thats what I did:) (though not for immigration reasons =P)
I agree its absolutely not perfect. Nowhere close, and i said that in my post.
My main point is that it sucks everywhere. The FEW -very, very few- countries where it doesn't suck right now, are starting to spiral down -too-.
And red herring or not, still doesn't change that when I moved from Canada to the US, my taxes went down by 20% of my total income, the cost of my private insurance (because again: even in countries with socialized health care, you often need private insurance) went -way- down (by 50% or so), and my coverage went way, way up (in practice, having had to use the emergency room in both countries).
And again, not to say the US system is better. It sucks ass for the reasons you mentionned. All i'm saying is that -all- the systems suck balls.
Hell, a lot more than that, since banks across the world will give you most any other currency at a fairly standard rate for those pieces of papers called US dollars.
So really, its more like a few billion peoples. Just some of them will ask for a bit more to cover the fees and inconvenience.
The implementation of gesture is trivial if you have a screen that supports multi touch, which Apple didn't invent and even licensed from someone else.
If someone makes an engine capable of going to warp speed, and I stick it in a space ship, the guy who made the warp speed engine can patent it, not me.
I honestly can't figure out which country is is the 100% and which one is the 60%.
Having lived in Canada and in the USA, the options I see are: Garanteed coverage for life or death scenario (and even then thats borderline), and lip service coverage (and less and less being covered) for everything else, for a 20% tax increase, and hidden fees everywhere, vs actual, real coverage for a nominal fee to individuals at a huge cost to employees, with jobless people being screwed.
Neither seem very good to me. Neither is 100%, either.
Yup. If 50% of gamers are women, then obviously the market is pretty optimal right now.
Sure, you could put farmsville on PC with HD graphics, but....would that work? The platform (facebook) as has much to do with it than the game. That's why "primarly guy" populated discussion forums will have "console wars".
Then you have hybrids. I'm pretty sure Terraria will appeal as much to women than it will to men. If there's less women, it is probably only because Steam markets mostly to guys, and little more.
I'm not debating if its doable or not. I'm saying it sucks. Hard.
My mother in law's 2 bedroom in a co-op is worth well over 600-700 grands (I forget exactly, so give or take 50k), and I would NOT live in it. Thats in Queens.
My new apartment in Cambridge, MA, in porter square at 1400$/month is borderline acceptable.
And my old apartment (I just recently moved) in Laval, Quebec, 25 minutes from downtown montreal using public transportation was 445$/month (2 bedroom). Its a bit cheaper than average because I had it for 15 years and the laws there are very strict about raise, but 600$/month was okayish.
Basically what Im saying is that the standard of living in NYC for people in the median or below is HORRIBLE. Those apartments fall apart and/or they crap way more people than they should in it.
Yup. Silverlight is just poorly marketed. When originally it was called WPF/E (WPF Everywhere), and.NET devs were begging for it, it was to be used for line of business applications and optimized for browser experience in a _somewhat_ cross platform manner.
This was in contrast with XBAP, which is pure WPF (the newer UI tech of.NET), which works in a browser sandbox but only on Windows, but isn't really designed from the ground up for it.
But then someone at Microsoft decided they wanted to take on Flash. The first version of Silverlight didn't have the.NET parts OR the line of business parts, they had to wait for Silverlight 2.0 for that...and even then, it kept being marketed as a Flash killer (not even a Flex killer, which it was much closer to).
Marketing killed WPF/E, nothing else. Silverlight IS the right tool for the job it was meant to do...just not for the one it was marketing for.
Are you a new yorker? Because then your standard is quite skewed. My wife's family is all in NYC, and I lived in Montreal and in the Boston area, and a 1400$ apartment with the specs you mentionnd in NYC, by my standards, is totally unacceptable. Total dump in garbage areas.
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada that is becoming more and more common. Not everything even CAN be done in the private sector, but anything minor (vaccination, routine exams, etc) can, and in my case, it means I can get an appointment same week, while my "official" family doctor normally has a 3-5 months wait list and i don't have enough time with him to ask questions.
I'm canadian. The difference between how much taxes I pay and how much my wife (who's currently in the US) pays, is about 20%~ (and she makes 20 thousand a year more than me, yet is the one who pays less taxes).
The difference in absolute numbers come up to about 15-20 thousand bucks of difference in taxes, so 1200-1600 bucks a month. I wouldn't attribute it all to health care, except virtually everything else the state/government is responsible for is BETTER in her area, -except- she needs to have private health care (which, because of how it works in the US, is mostly paid by her employer).
The amount that comes out of her pocket per paycheck is about 50-60$. The cost that comes out of MY pocket for my complementary private insurance (to cover stuff the government doesn't pay, like dentist) is 65$/month.
So bottom line is, I pay more than she does for health care by a factor. 400$/month sounds like a steal compared to a LOT of countries that have universal health care, if you look at taxes and services provided.
Don't get me wrong, the US system is still f****cked up, because of the preexisting condition issues and what happens if you don't have a job. It is wrong on so many level that people have to do what the guy in the article did.
But yes, as a canadian, i think 400$/month per health care IS one hell of a good deal.
If they had done it 20-30 years ago, it would have worked. Now though? Very, -very- few countries have a "healthy" health care system. They're all downward spirals, with growing health care costs across the world. Some still work fine, but i doubt it will last.
Canada's for example is seriously going out of control. The percentage of the budget that goes to health care raises with every budget, and less and less coverage is offered. Private clinics are sprouting left and right, and costs of "complementary" private insurance is raising steadily.
I was only answering the skull comment:) What i feel is over the top is the entire character. He's completely immortal in his later incarnation, and can regenerate faster than "instant disintegration" can disintegrate him =P.
And THAT, was just an answer to the post saying that Marvel heroes are not over the top (which I agree with), and sited Wolvering as an example (which i don't agree with).
Agreed, but in the movie's interpretation, they made it pretty damn clear: the bullet goes through and he regenerates with no damage except for his memory being lost. What happens to his skull being adamantium isn't the issue here: its that even after (what was it, 3-4?) a bunch of bullets in the head at point blank through his -brain-, he loses his memories and thats it.
In his more recent incarnations and especially in the movies, I don't think Wolverine is a good example of what you're trying to say... regenerating faster than he can be disintegrated by the phoenix force, a billion super powers based on his animal nature, being able to survive an adamantium bullet to the head point blank range and the worse that happens is he loses his memory... He's a bit over the top now.
I know a fair amount of CS majors who worked as software developers for heavily unionized companies and/or state-run stuff, and many of them sure as hell got the occasional "Im going to kill your kids" phone calls and notes.
People scared of losing their jobs and being replaced by software. Which is rather entertaining since in those specific unions, they had clauses where the company wasn't allowed to lower the amount of employees below a certain amount, which it would stick to quite precisely (since it was like 30% more than the company needed). Basically it was impossible to get fired.
And you know what? Thats fine. I'm not completely sure the world is supposed to support EVERYONE having high tech high end toys and luxuries. When you see a single parent of 2 kids on minimum wadge playing on their legitimately obtained iphones (even after their kids are as properly taken care of as someone on minimum wadge can), there's an economic problem.
Don't get me wrong, its nice that everyone can afford these things... but its only possible because of an imbalance in economy between the country buying and the one producing. These imbalances cannot last forever.
The IT department was created before these solutions were available. Thats why they had one "in the first place".
Ironically, in most companies I worked for where "cloud" stuff was introduced, it was IT initiative. Very few people think kicking servers to keep them working is fun. The less the better. Only keep inhouse what can't be outsourced to COMPETENT firms. And lately, there's a bunch of very good ones.
Even the fastest javascript engines don't even remotely compete with modern interpreted languages (Java, C#)
I'd think it would depend which part you're considering. Overall, yeah, you're right. But in parts, at the end modern Javascript engines, just like Java or C#, have just in time compiler and they execute native code. Javascript preemptively has to auto-detect the types, but recent progress allowed engines to do that ahead of time as much as possible. So after that, native code is native code. I wouldn't expect differences to be THAT large. DOM operations would be the majority of the bottleneck.
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Hmm....while I'm no fan of IE, there is the standalone off-line installer and the administration kit to make custom installs...
What else exactly would you need?
There's no problem immigrating to the US via legal channels. Unless you're talking about a specific subset of immigrants who don't give a shit about anything, any laws, and will do whatever regardless of what anyone else says.
Not too sure I want that specific subset around. If they do care and are desperate enough, just marry a citizen or something. Problem solved. Thats what I did :) (though not for immigration reasons =P)
I agree its absolutely not perfect. Nowhere close, and i said that in my post.
My main point is that it sucks everywhere. The FEW -very, very few- countries where it doesn't suck right now, are starting to spiral down -too-.
And red herring or not, still doesn't change that when I moved from Canada to the US, my taxes went down by 20% of my total income, the cost of my private insurance (because again: even in countries with socialized health care, you often need private insurance) went -way- down (by 50% or so), and my coverage went way, way up (in practice, having had to use the emergency room in both countries).
And again, not to say the US system is better. It sucks ass for the reasons you mentionned. All i'm saying is that -all- the systems suck balls.
Hell, a lot more than that, since banks across the world will give you most any other currency at a fairly standard rate for those pieces of papers called US dollars.
So really, its more like a few billion peoples. Just some of them will ask for a bit more to cover the fees and inconvenience.
The implementation of gesture is trivial if you have a screen that supports multi touch, which Apple didn't invent and even licensed from someone else.
If someone makes an engine capable of going to warp speed, and I stick it in a space ship, the guy who made the warp speed engine can patent it, not me.
Congrats, you just (loosely) described Java Applets, Silverlight, Flex, etc
Now figure out the problem. (Unless that was your point, and it went woosh over my head)
I honestly can't figure out which country is is the 100% and which one is the 60%.
Having lived in Canada and in the USA, the options I see are: Garanteed coverage for life or death scenario (and even then thats borderline), and lip service coverage (and less and less being covered) for everything else, for a 20% tax increase, and hidden fees everywhere, vs actual, real coverage for a nominal fee to individuals at a huge cost to employees, with jobless people being screwed.
Neither seem very good to me. Neither is 100%, either.
Rising slower, but at the same time services are getting cut left and right. And its STILL rising anyway.
Close enough.
If a baby stick a paper note in its mouth right now, the -original- content of the note should be the least of your worries.
Yup. If 50% of gamers are women, then obviously the market is pretty optimal right now.
Sure, you could put farmsville on PC with HD graphics, but....would that work? The platform (facebook) as has much to do with it than the game. That's why "primarly guy" populated discussion forums will have "console wars".
Then you have hybrids. I'm pretty sure Terraria will appeal as much to women than it will to men. If there's less women, it is probably only because Steam markets mostly to guys, and little more.
I'm not debating if its doable or not. I'm saying it sucks. Hard.
My mother in law's 2 bedroom in a co-op is worth well over 600-700 grands (I forget exactly, so give or take 50k), and I would NOT live in it. Thats in Queens.
My new apartment in Cambridge, MA, in porter square at 1400$/month is borderline acceptable.
And my old apartment (I just recently moved) in Laval, Quebec, 25 minutes from downtown montreal using public transportation was 445$/month (2 bedroom). Its a bit cheaper than average because I had it for 15 years and the laws there are very strict about raise, but 600$/month was okayish.
Basically what Im saying is that the standard of living in NYC for people in the median or below is HORRIBLE. Those apartments fall apart and/or they crap way more people than they should in it.
Yup. Silverlight is just poorly marketed. When originally it was called WPF/E (WPF Everywhere), and .NET devs were begging for it, it was to be used for line of business applications and optimized for browser experience in a _somewhat_ cross platform manner.
This was in contrast with XBAP, which is pure WPF (the newer UI tech of .NET), which works in a browser sandbox but only on Windows, but isn't really designed from the ground up for it.
But then someone at Microsoft decided they wanted to take on Flash. The first version of Silverlight didn't have the .NET parts OR the line of business parts, they had to wait for Silverlight 2.0 for that...and even then, it kept being marketed as a Flash killer (not even a Flex killer, which it was much closer to).
Marketing killed WPF/E, nothing else. Silverlight IS the right tool for the job it was meant to do...just not for the one it was marketing for.
Indeed! Why would you limit yourself to Windows machines!
Which is why they were using Silverlight, since its no limited to windows machines!
Are you a new yorker? Because then your standard is quite skewed. My wife's family is all in NYC, and I lived in Montreal and in the Boston area, and a 1400$ apartment with the specs you mentionnd in NYC, by my standards, is totally unacceptable. Total dump in garbage areas.
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada that is becoming more and more common. Not everything even CAN be done in the private sector, but anything minor (vaccination, routine exams, etc) can, and in my case, it means I can get an appointment same week, while my "official" family doctor normally has a 3-5 months wait list and i don't have enough time with him to ask questions.
I'm canadian. The difference between how much taxes I pay and how much my wife (who's currently in the US) pays, is about 20%~ (and she makes 20 thousand a year more than me, yet is the one who pays less taxes).
The difference in absolute numbers come up to about 15-20 thousand bucks of difference in taxes, so 1200-1600 bucks a month. I wouldn't attribute it all to health care, except virtually everything else the state/government is responsible for is BETTER in her area, -except- she needs to have private health care (which, because of how it works in the US, is mostly paid by her employer).
The amount that comes out of her pocket per paycheck is about 50-60$. The cost that comes out of MY pocket for my complementary private insurance (to cover stuff the government doesn't pay, like dentist) is 65$/month.
So bottom line is, I pay more than she does for health care by a factor. 400$/month sounds like a steal compared to a LOT of countries that have universal health care, if you look at taxes and services provided.
Don't get me wrong, the US system is still f****cked up, because of the preexisting condition issues and what happens if you don't have a job. It is wrong on so many level that people have to do what the guy in the article did.
But yes, as a canadian, i think 400$/month per health care IS one hell of a good deal.
If they had done it 20-30 years ago, it would have worked. Now though? Very, -very- few countries have a "healthy" health care system. They're all downward spirals, with growing health care costs across the world. Some still work fine, but i doubt it will last.
Canada's for example is seriously going out of control. The percentage of the budget that goes to health care raises with every budget, and less and less coverage is offered. Private clinics are sprouting left and right, and costs of "complementary" private insurance is raising steadily.
Air carriers are probably the worse, with "fuel surcharge" and airport renovation fee, security enhancement tax, etc.
I was only answering the skull comment :) What i feel is over the top is the entire character. He's completely immortal in his later incarnation, and can regenerate faster than "instant disintegration" can disintegrate him =P.
And THAT, was just an answer to the post saying that Marvel heroes are not over the top (which I agree with), and sited Wolvering as an example (which i don't agree with).
Thats all. Sorry for the confusion.
Agreed, but in the movie's interpretation, they made it pretty damn clear: the bullet goes through and he regenerates with no damage except for his memory being lost. What happens to his skull being adamantium isn't the issue here: its that even after (what was it, 3-4?) a bunch of bullets in the head at point blank through his -brain-, he loses his memories and thats it.
In his more recent incarnations and especially in the movies, I don't think Wolverine is a good example of what you're trying to say... regenerating faster than he can be disintegrated by the phoenix force, a billion super powers based on his animal nature, being able to survive an adamantium bullet to the head point blank range and the worse that happens is he loses his memory... He's a bit over the top now.
I know a fair amount of CS majors who worked as software developers for heavily unionized companies and/or state-run stuff, and many of them sure as hell got the occasional "Im going to kill your kids" phone calls and notes.
People scared of losing their jobs and being replaced by software. Which is rather entertaining since in those specific unions, they had clauses where the company wasn't allowed to lower the amount of employees below a certain amount, which it would stick to quite precisely (since it was like 30% more than the company needed). Basically it was impossible to get fired.
And you know what? Thats fine. I'm not completely sure the world is supposed to support EVERYONE having high tech high end toys and luxuries. When you see a single parent of 2 kids on minimum wadge playing on their legitimately obtained iphones (even after their kids are as properly taken care of as someone on minimum wadge can), there's an economic problem.
Don't get me wrong, its nice that everyone can afford these things... but its only possible because of an imbalance in economy between the country buying and the one producing. These imbalances cannot last forever.
The IT department was created before these solutions were available. Thats why they had one "in the first place".
Ironically, in most companies I worked for where "cloud" stuff was introduced, it was IT initiative. Very few people think kicking servers to keep them working is fun. The less the better. Only keep inhouse what can't be outsourced to COMPETENT firms. And lately, there's a bunch of very good ones.
I'd think it would depend which part you're considering. Overall, yeah, you're right. But in parts, at the end modern Javascript engines, just like Java or C#, have just in time compiler and they execute native code. Javascript preemptively has to auto-detect the types, but recent progress allowed engines to do that ahead of time as much as possible. So after that, native code is native code. I wouldn't expect differences to be THAT large. DOM operations would be the majority of the bottleneck.