I think you misunderstood. Those working poor get all those taxes back at the end of the year because of deductions. I live in a poor area, and my neighbors do not pay taxes. Suppose they make $20k per year, pay 30% of that in taxes, then between their minimum deductions, child tax credits, etc. - they pay nothing. They probably don't even take much of anything out, since you can claim deductions on your W-2 form. And the companies sometimes get tax credits for employee such persons too.
That's kinda funny - I agree with the premise, but not the conclusion. Time is money, so there's no sense in me converting a 30 minute trip to a 2 hour trip, of which 30 minutes is walking or driving. But it sounds like you are in an area with better public transportation than I am.
There's a way around that. If you place another material between the transmitter and the receiver, so that there is a path with no oxygen on it, then there will be very little signal degradation. I recommend something like a thin strip of aluminum or copper, insulated with some non-conductive material (which can also act as a ground between the transmitter and receiver).
Right now, my virus program is using 116MB of RAM. For that 116MB + whatever CPU time it uses, I've never seen it find a virus. Actually - I've never ever seen any virus program on anyone's computer ever find a virus. So I would argue that installing antivirus software would actually have a negative externality, because it would slow computers down without providing any benefit.
What if the MMORPGs are in different markets with minimal crossover? What if the employee left because the other MMORPG sucks and they learned nothing useful?
Educate yourself on Toner. In particular, look at "Health Risks" and "Environmental Considerations"
I don't know about you, but I'm sure I've used more than a half-ounce of toner in my lifetime. I imagine offices and printing facilities use boatloads.
There is nothing wrong with a functional 20 year out of date COBOL application.
Tell that to the manager who can't hire anyone because they refuse to work on COBOL code. Which, was the issue the original poster brought up.
That is like saying "There's nothing wrong with leaving data on these 8-inch floppy disks! There are perfectly fine!" Until you find out one day that there's no hardware that can read them.
There is something very wrong with leaving something in a language so old that no one is willing to maintain it. If they rewrote it in C 20 years ago, then they would have a pool people willing to work on it today. And yes, they probably should be porting it to something else, so that in 20 years they still have people who can work on it.
The problem is not that the COBOL coders are retiring. The problem is that the government made the decision to rewrite the code 20 years too late. Everybody else knew the language was dead.
If this were a commercial company, they would go out of business for making such a stupid decision.
I was arguing with a coworker why autorun is so dangerous. He said he never had a problem with it. So while he was away from his desk, I modified his USB key with an autorun that changes his desktop background to Unicorns and Rainbows.:-)
I think content is part of it too. If my ISP inserts advertisements into pages, that's not being neutral. Let's apply the common carrier logic: Would it be fair for a common carrier to open a package, insert a coupon for a competing product, then reseal the package and deliver it?
I had a coworker who was very "special" - socially awkward, multiple degrees, very brilliant, and only slept a few hours a day. I called him Cliff Clavin as he was a master of trivia. We had a game where we would pit his brain against Google + my typing skills. Throughout the day he would randomly stand up and announce some esoteric fact. I would then Google the fact, and try to present another fact equally esoteric. We would go about this until I either stumped him, or he outpaced me. It was very entertaining, informative, and frightening.
I'd say he and Google were tied. Not sure which one could parse natural language better though.
(There was a ST:TNG episode that was very much like this: Data pits himself against a "master of small talk")
I don't think this was meant for kids. They marketed this at conferences like GDC and CES, which target geeks. Probably the geeks would buy them, claiming it was for the kids.:-)
It is not necessary for a trademark owner to take enforcement action against all infringement if it can be shown that the owner perceived the infringement to be minor and inconsequential.
Seems like a letter stating the above would be sufficient.
A lot of taxis doing 100,000 miles with no problems would indeed be evidence that 100,000 miles with no trouble is a reasonable claim. But the links provided don't give that data, so it's an assumption.
That's PER YEAR!!!
He said:
Specifically, the fact taxis have travelled 240,000 [greentaxi.org] or even 300,000 [jcwinnie.biz] miles with no major problems
His statement is consistent with the article. That's one taxi that went 240,000 miles. Another taxi went 300,000 miles. Not 300,000 taxis going one mile.
The warranty period is an excellent (not perfect) indicator of the maximum frequency with which you can expect to incur that cost.
[citation required] You are wrong. All the articles linked in this discussion indicate otherwise. Manufacturers set the warranty without knowing how long it will actually last, because they can't do real-world testing. This is logical and consistent with how warranties on other products work, where it is difficult to measure the expected lifespan of the product when it is new.
Gah!!! But I just read something a few weeks ago that said the steam version still had DRM! Now I'm really confused. Thanks for the links though. hmm...
This is probably a tired point, but I'd like to know what they are doing with DRM in BioShock. BioShock is the kind of game I'd love to play, but I am not buying an XBOX to play it, nor will I tolerate their DRM.
I know I'm in the.000001% minority, so I doubt I had any effect on their sales. But I'm still hopeful for a non-DRM (or less draconian) version.
Until enough people think that the third candidate gets enough votes to become one of the top two.
The problem is that even if 90% of America wants to vote for the third-party, they think that the third-party will lose, so they don't vote for that person. Which causes that person to lose, confirming their suspicion, so then they don't vote for that third-party the next time around either. And the cycle continues.
If they could vote for the third party, but be assured that if that person does not win, their vote goes to their second pick, then the problem is eliminated.
You are mostly right, but it is actually worse than that.
The natural monopoly is on the LINES, not the SERVICE. But the US government grants a monopoly for BOTH. I am okay with only having two companies providing lines to my house: cable and telephone. The problem is that there are only two companies offering service over those lines: the local cable company, and the local telephone company.
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I think you misunderstood. Those working poor get all those taxes back at the end of the year because of deductions. I live in a poor area, and my neighbors do not pay taxes. Suppose they make $20k per year, pay 30% of that in taxes, then between their minimum deductions, child tax credits, etc. - they pay nothing. They probably don't even take much of anything out, since you can claim deductions on your W-2 form. And the companies sometimes get tax credits for employee such persons too.
The one exception I can think of is sales taxes.
That's kinda funny - I agree with the premise, but not the conclusion. Time is money, so there's no sense in me converting a 30 minute trip to a 2 hour trip, of which 30 minutes is walking or driving. But it sounds like you are in an area with better public transportation than I am.
There's a way around that. If you place another material between the transmitter and the receiver, so that there is a path with no oxygen on it, then there will be very little signal degradation. I recommend something like a thin strip of aluminum or copper, insulated with some non-conductive material (which can also act as a ground between the transmitter and receiver).
Agreed.
Right now, my virus program is using 116MB of RAM. For that 116MB + whatever CPU time it uses, I've never seen it find a virus. Actually - I've never ever seen any virus program on anyone's computer ever find a virus. So I would argue that installing antivirus software would actually have a negative externality, because it would slow computers down without providing any benefit.
What if the MMORPGs are in different markets with minimal crossover? What if the employee left because the other MMORPG sucks and they learned nothing useful?
Educate yourself on Toner. In particular, look at "Health Risks" and "Environmental Considerations"
I don't know about you, but I'm sure I've used more than a half-ounce of toner in my lifetime. I imagine offices and printing facilities use boatloads.
There is nothing wrong with a functional 20 year out of date COBOL application.
Tell that to the manager who can't hire anyone because they refuse to work on COBOL code. Which, was the issue the original poster brought up.
That is like saying "There's nothing wrong with leaving data on these 8-inch floppy disks! There are perfectly fine!" Until you find out one day that there's no hardware that can read them.
There is something very wrong with leaving something in a language so old that no one is willing to maintain it. If they rewrote it in C 20 years ago, then they would have a pool people willing to work on it today. And yes, they probably should be porting it to something else, so that in 20 years they still have people who can work on it.
The original poster was talking how they had COBOL code to maintain, and no one to work on it.
As someone who maintains (part of) that 36 million lines of COBOL code...
The problem is not that the COBOL coders are retiring. The problem is that the government made the decision to rewrite the code 20 years too late. Everybody else knew the language was dead.
If this were a commercial company, they would go out of business for making such a stupid decision.
I was arguing with a coworker why autorun is so dangerous. He said he never had a problem with it. So while he was away from his desk, I modified his USB key with an autorun that changes his desktop background to Unicorns and Rainbows. :-)
From the summary:
which withstood three years of design and testing by Australian and American security agencies.
I took that to mean the crypto-community had a long hard look at it.
They aren't giving a way the lock and key. They are giving away a design for locks and keys.
I think content is part of it too. If my ISP inserts advertisements into pages, that's not being neutral. Let's apply the common carrier logic: Would it be fair for a common carrier to open a package, insert a coupon for a competing product, then reseal the package and deliver it?
doesnt help them find the badguys in fact all it does is make the law abiding masses paranoid
Except that they will never find that out, because the masses don't care, and it doesn't matter if laws are effective or not.
n the end the only thing this will be used for successfully is kowtowing to corporate interests and eroding the rights of citizens.
Which is all that matters to them.
I had a coworker who was very "special" - socially awkward, multiple degrees, very brilliant, and only slept a few hours a day. I called him Cliff Clavin as he was a master of trivia. We had a game where we would pit his brain against Google + my typing skills. Throughout the day he would randomly stand up and announce some esoteric fact. I would then Google the fact, and try to present another fact equally esoteric. We would go about this until I either stumped him, or he outpaced me. It was very entertaining, informative, and frightening.
I'd say he and Google were tied. Not sure which one could parse natural language better though.
(There was a ST:TNG episode that was very much like this: Data pits himself against a "master of small talk")
Looks like they are learning from the US' mistakes.
They need to ensure that competition in the market remains fair and consumers are given choice rather than one or two providers.
(emphasis mine)
I don't think this was meant for kids. They marketed this at conferences like GDC and CES, which target geeks. Probably the geeks would buy them, claiming it was for the kids. :-)
I've heard this on Slashdot, but I read otherwise (ironically, on Wikipedia)
Wikipedia: Trademark rights
It is not necessary for a trademark owner to take enforcement action against all infringement if it can be shown that the owner perceived the infringement to be minor and inconsequential.
Seems like a letter stating the above would be sufficient.
Yes he did. See my other comments in this thread.
I have, and you are mistaken.
A lot of taxis doing 100,000 miles with no problems would indeed be evidence that 100,000 miles with no trouble is a reasonable claim. But the links provided don't give that data, so it's an assumption.
That's PER YEAR!!!
He said:
Specifically, the fact taxis have travelled 240,000 [greentaxi.org] or even 300,000 [jcwinnie.biz] miles with no major problems
His statement is consistent with the article. That's one taxi that went 240,000 miles. Another taxi went 300,000 miles. Not 300,000 taxis going one mile.
The warranty period is an excellent (not perfect) indicator of the maximum frequency with which you can expect to incur that cost.
[citation required]
You are wrong. All the articles linked in this discussion indicate otherwise. Manufacturers set the warranty without knowing how long it will actually last, because they can't do real-world testing. This is logical and consistent with how warranties on other products work, where it is difficult to measure the expected lifespan of the product when it is new.
Gah!!! But I just read something a few weeks ago that said the steam version still had DRM! Now I'm really confused. Thanks for the links though. hmm...
oldspewey quoted taxi miles, which are irrelevant
No, he didn't.
300,000 miles can be achieved, but there's no reason to think this is typical.
From what I've read, taxis commonly do 100,000 miles per year. So this should not be unusual at all.
I think the manufacturer's warranty periods are the best available indication of what to expect in practice, rather than looking at exceptional cases.
That is a mistaken assumption. In most products, warranty periods are chosen without any real-world experience.
This is probably a tired point, but I'd like to know what they are doing with DRM in BioShock. BioShock is the kind of game I'd love to play, but I am not buying an XBOX to play it, nor will I tolerate their DRM.
I know I'm in the .000001% minority, so I doubt I had any effect on their sales. But I'm still hopeful for a non-DRM (or less draconian) version.
okay, true.
Let me fix that for you:
Until enough people think that the third candidate gets enough votes to become one of the top two.
The problem is that even if 90% of America wants to vote for the third-party, they think that the third-party will lose, so they don't vote for that person. Which causes that person to lose, confirming their suspicion, so then they don't vote for that third-party the next time around either. And the cycle continues.
If they could vote for the third party, but be assured that if that person does not win, their vote goes to their second pick, then the problem is eliminated.
You are mostly right, but it is actually worse than that.
The natural monopoly is on the LINES, not the SERVICE. But the US government grants a monopoly for BOTH. I am okay with only having two companies providing lines to my house: cable and telephone. The problem is that there are only two companies offering service over those lines: the local cable company, and the local telephone company.