...this is what the OS X team has been doing. Their stuff has been getting bigger, with more functionality, AND faster on the same hardware, with each release. If anyone else has been doing that, I haven't heard of it.
The world is not black and white. These choices on/. are annoying. Sun is a good company, not a great one, but giving an either/or question with disconnected answers is fallacious.
Are you saying that everybody in/. is a brain-dead dumbass, or do you have a secret agenda involving lots of Sun stocks? Me wants an answer!
While I support the side you seem to be in, I don't think the UK is the best example of a welfare state. In Europe, UK and Ireland are closer to the US than any other country, in the sense of tax pressure and welfare support.
Amen. And I am one of those who waste an insane amount of time. I'm a pathological procrastinator. So painful. The up side is that I know how I work, and I consider myself a sprinter, rather than a long distance runner: I can do in the last 2 days the work of 2 weeks, and it all balances. Now, if only I was able to keep the pace...
French, German and British workers' productivity per hour worked is way higher than American workers' productivity per hour worked. We earn more money too, for less work.
I agree with your general argument, but you don't need false statements to support it. Whether you measure GDP per capita, average salaries divided by monthly expenses, purchasing power, working in the US you'll most likely have a healthier pocket, if perhaps at the cost of a worse personal life.
I don't know about anyone else, but I mock it because it's so obviously unsustainable in the long run. "Free" health care that means waiting endless amounts of time for routine surgeries...
Well, Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc., have been doing this for a while, and they seem to do quite well. Sure, they might not have the strongest economies in the world, but I bet you they wouldn't change their social rights for the US system. Heck, even in Spain we have a much better health system than the US with twice the GDP per capita.
A work force that gets so spoiled that they riot in France because they're not given a job for life!.
The French riots (the most recent ones) were not exactly for "not being given a job for life". But that doesn't mean that I agree with them, anyway.
This was covered in Barrapunto, the Spanish/. clon, last week. The Miró family is notorious for doing things like this; contributing very little to his memory, while filling their pockets with the fruit of the work they didn't do. The morons want to take credit for someone doing something resembling something someone else did decades ago. There are so many levels of indirection that it's hard to follow, but that's the truth.
Amen. I would also want to see a decent out of the box support for Mandarin, as I'm taking classes and I hate having to switch to Windows for typing my essays... Those two things and I know _a lot_ of people who would switch to Ubuntu tomorrow.
Being in Slashdot, a simile with disk fragmentation could be used: Each time a new file is placed more or less randomly in a blank space on disk, it'll fill part of that hole, while at the same time increasing the number of holes (one before and one after the new file). So in a way, new additions to the fossil registry increase the fragmentation of the evolutionary hard drive.
That just talks about the huge number of senseless loopholes in the tax system. Of course, if you have zillions to pay on taxes, you will spend the time and brains it takes to lower that amount. Mom and pop won't have that time or resources, so they pay more. Unfairly. But that doesn't make the previous argument wrong. It just screams agains the way taxes are applied here. Well, and in Spain, where I'm from, too. I'm not bashing anyone; or I'm bashing everyone, I guess...
Because flat taxes with no other means of compensation make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and a strong and well populated middle class is the base for any stable political system.
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What you're talking about is the Spanish invented guerrilla warfare.
That reminds me of a job offer I read around December 2001, asking for 3+ years of experience with .NET.
You reminded me I haven't have lunch yet.
KDE comes to mind.
Actually, MSDOS took the other approach: Everything runs in kernel space.
At the mere thought of Al Gore and this lady conceiving little Internet.
He must have read about Montecarlo methods.
That reminded me... Isn't it great that whoever decided to give a name to the phenomenon of "lisping" spelled it that way? So subtly evil!
Uhmmm... your vote goes to Bush?
Are you saying that everybody in /. is a brain-dead dumbass, or do you have a secret agenda involving lots of Sun stocks? Me wants an answer!
While I support the side you seem to be in, I don't think the UK is the best example of a welfare state. In Europe, UK and Ireland are closer to the US than any other country, in the sense of tax pressure and welfare support.
Amen. And I am one of those who waste an insane amount of time. I'm a pathological procrastinator. So painful. The up side is that I know how I work, and I consider myself a sprinter, rather than a long distance runner: I can do in the last 2 days the work of 2 weeks, and it all balances. Now, if only I was able to keep the pace...
I agree with your general argument, but you don't need false statements to support it. Whether you measure GDP per capita, average salaries divided by monthly expenses, purchasing power, working in the US you'll most likely have a healthier pocket, if perhaps at the cost of a worse personal life.
Well, Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc., have been doing this for a while, and they seem to do quite well. Sure, they might not have the strongest economies in the world, but I bet you they wouldn't change their social rights for the US system. Heck, even in Spain we have a much better health system than the US with twice the GDP per capita.
A work force that gets so spoiled that they riot in France because they're not given a job for life!.
The French riots (the most recent ones) were not exactly for "not being given a job for life". But that doesn't mean that I agree with them, anyway.
This was covered in Barrapunto, the Spanish /. clon, last week. The Miró family is notorious for doing things like this; contributing very little to his memory, while filling their pockets with the fruit of the work they didn't do. The morons want to take credit for someone doing something resembling something someone else did decades ago. There are so many levels of indirection that it's hard to follow, but that's the truth.
Amen. I would also want to see a decent out of the box support for Mandarin, as I'm taking classes and I hate having to switch to Windows for typing my essays... Those two things and I know _a lot_ of people who would switch to Ubuntu tomorrow.
Depending on where you are, and how cool your MP3 player is, you might be shooting yourself in the foot :).
If you did that and got the money from Google, you've just put those $4500 in risk by publicly admitting not having done the job yourself.
Dude, my stack overflew. Use some ')'s, man, or a few points here and there :).
Being in Slashdot, a simile with disk fragmentation could be used: Each time a new file is placed more or less randomly in a blank space on disk, it'll fill part of that hole, while at the same time increasing the number of holes (one before and one after the new file). So in a way, new additions to the fossil registry increase the fragmentation of the evolutionary hard drive.
That's nothing. I voted republican because typing 'w' takes me here. Those democrats better catch up!
I couldn't help picturing Clippy in its car stopping in a traffic light, rolling down the window and asking me "Excuse me, do you know where I am?".
Plus nobody pays you to be a target :).
That just talks about the huge number of senseless loopholes in the tax system. Of course, if you have zillions to pay on taxes, you will spend the time and brains it takes to lower that amount. Mom and pop won't have that time or resources, so they pay more. Unfairly. But that doesn't make the previous argument wrong. It just screams agains the way taxes are applied here. Well, and in Spain, where I'm from, too. I'm not bashing anyone; or I'm bashing everyone, I guess...
Because flat taxes with no other means of compensation make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and a strong and well populated middle class is the base for any stable political system.