Don't forget about GUI latency in general - those barely noticeable sub-second delays that ruin an application through death by a thousand cuts. Visual Studio 10 springs to mind.
I would think the net result would be the same and that similar levels of tedious admin would apply whether it's income-based or outgoing-based (sales tax).
Conspiracy eh? I'm not even from the US - I just take a disliking to work that's done for the sake of 'work' without any tangible benefit (I also believe in a single world currency and universal language for the same reasons). Feel free to post any links to any other site that also simplifies the whole tax mess whether it's for the US or not.
I'm not too sure there's ultimately much of a difference between taxing all income versus outgoing, but anything that simplifies the tax system gets a thumb up from me. Thanks for the link - hopefully that, or something like it will get implemented soon.
Exactly. I despise the way so few governments care about admin and the hidden cost that is. Simplicity like you say is the key. Even if it makes things a tiny bit less fair overall, it more than makes up for it in paperwork (or the lack thereof). Another case of UWS (unnecessary work syndrome).
Do you know of a website which promotes a much simplified and universal tax scheme?
Which is why a better system is a meritocracy. But now combine that with Google's Pagerank, where people who are voted by other people generally have more 'weight' to a policy's outcome, even if anyone can influence it. There'd be no government, but the public isn't treated equally. It'd be like the perfect balance between a "the public make the choices" system, and "government knows best".
That would be the basic premise, although you could expand upon this by voting for someone's particular 'skill area' rather than assuming that any opinion they have on any topic is gold if they have a high HumanRank.
It'd be all automated, and all votes, and person rank info would be freely available.
What would happen if something that size hit a country or continent at say, 1 meter per second? I'm not sure of the magnitude of that kind of catastrophe at all.
Whenever some hardcore relativists speaks about all music being equally good, I just get them to load a random exe file into a sample editor and play it back. The result is usually the most horrendous piece of crap you can imagine, that squeals and grates like a ZX spectrum on acid. I'm serious, it's not pure white noise, it really sounds horrible.
In a sense though, what you say can apply to physical inventions too, as the same creativeness is required in that case - it's just you're working with physical materials rather than lines of code (I certainly believe all stuff is discovered, it's just that physical inventions probably have many more parts and ideas than most algorithms, and so could be considered an 'implementation'). Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if there's something like the Fourier transform, but much more complicated and 'inventive'.
That's the thing yes. I've heard before how algorithms are just too modular (and build off other work) to be worth meriting a patent.
Surely someone here on Slashdot can give a counterexample?
At the least though, it seems prudent to at least protect their implementation by not making it open source (not in all cases of course, as some base libraries and functionality should be open, and that helps humanity, such as the PNG spec), but that's a separate issue I guess.
Not to say the patent system isn't unfair/broken, but it's often been said that we shouldn't patent algorithms, and they should be OS etc. But how about if it's someone's livelihood, and years of research went into the algorithm, like I bet this did? Should programmers be given less due just because they're not working with real materials or making physical inventions?
Death by a thousand cuts indeed. I just saw this video detailing many of Unity's defects, and he's pretty objective in not just pin-pointing what the problems are, but also how they should be solved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJAjK6g8eE
I know next to nothing about economics, but surely a simpler way of putting it is: The people they owe the debt to will be less likely to trade with the US in the future if the US appears unreliable and the creditor won't get their money / money back.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that no one outside of your bizarre fever dream knows that.
Bingo. Yes I (lucid) dream about this most nights and await the day when monitor manufacturers wake up to my reality. For now, I've resorted to buying tailor-made mirrors to cover the TV and 2 monitors we have in this house. Friends remark at how wonderfully new and high-tech they look all the time, and I'm inclined to agree. That's what it's all about.
But I would do anything to have them pre-installed like this to begin with.
We all know that the perfect monitor screen resembles (or should resemble) a highly polished mirror, and that the viewing of films, games, software or the web is a secondary effect that some people find occasionally useful.
So with that in mind, how is this technology a step forwards again?
Oh here we go again. The "broken windows" fallacy has fooled someone again.
Somewhat related; very recently on Reddit, there was an article about a much safer kind of saw called 'SawStop' (the promotional video is quite amusing). It stops spinning in 1/1000th of a second if you touch it, and saves many fingers/hands a year.
It turns out that the economic cost of table-saw injuries is around $2 billion. Meanwhile, the entire table-saw market is only $175 million (interesting read), or 10x less. In other words, if the big makers (Bosch, Black & Decker and co) used this tech, we'd save tons of money, pain and Unnecessary Surgery (which yes, is featured in Itchy and Scratchy's horror theme park).
Oh dear, but now we've put all those surgeons out of work repairing countless fingers that the previous inferior saws cut off!! Such a shame!
And hence why people have got to start equating higher unemployment as often being a good thing, instead of a bad.
If we had the energy, personally, I'd like the sky lit up at night as if it were day (and heated as such too). However, it'd be great to have some periods off during the year when there was no light at all for you astronomers.
Quick question for those with giant codebases such as this. How the heck do you test, and debug the software with those kind of lag times? Do you split everything up into smaller pieces or something? If so, then surely there are cases where you need to test something that requires EVERYTHING to be compiled. I can imagine such shot in the dark scenarios to be the stuff of pure nightmares.
I think you misinterpreted that. They didn't mean there was 'no chance' when they said that. They implied that whatever chance there was, that it wasn't going to change by users adding more comments where they were not meant to. It's a bug tracking forum, not a feature suggesting place. (See Google's latest post in the link where they say hi to us Slashdotters).
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Don't forget about GUI latency in general - those barely noticeable sub-second delays that ruin an application through death by a thousand cuts. Visual Studio 10 springs to mind.
One can always modify the percentages.
I'm fine with a basic wage too, so that poor and rich people get a fixed unconditional income every week.
Due to spending in other countries like you say, maybe tax based on income is better than outgoing/sales.
I would think the net result would be the same and that similar levels of tedious admin would apply whether it's income-based or outgoing-based (sales tax).
Conspiracy eh? I'm not even from the US - I just take a disliking to work that's done for the sake of 'work' without any tangible benefit (I also believe in a single world currency and universal language for the same reasons). Feel free to post any links to any other site that also simplifies the whole tax mess whether it's for the US or not.
I'm not too sure there's ultimately much of a difference between taxing all income versus outgoing, but anything that simplifies the tax system gets a thumb up from me. Thanks for the link - hopefully that, or something like it will get implemented soon.
Exactly. I despise the way so few governments care about admin and the hidden cost that is. Simplicity like you say is the key. Even if it makes things a tiny bit less fair overall, it more than makes up for it in paperwork (or the lack thereof). Another case of UWS (unnecessary work syndrome).
Do you know of a website which promotes a much simplified and universal tax scheme?
Which is why a better system is a meritocracy. But now combine that with Google's Pagerank, where people who are voted by other people generally have more 'weight' to a policy's outcome, even if anyone can influence it. There'd be no government, but the public isn't treated equally. It'd be like the perfect balance between a "the public make the choices" system, and "government knows best".
That would be the basic premise, although you could expand upon this by voting for someone's particular 'skill area' rather than assuming that any opinion they have on any topic is gold if they have a high HumanRank.
It'd be all automated, and all votes, and person rank info would be freely available.
Which I'm sure would be awesome to see which is probably why there's no video footage of that kind of thing anywhere (let alone in high resolution).
What would happen if something that size hit a country or continent at say, 1 meter per second? I'm not sure of the magnitude of that kind of catastrophe at all.
Whenever some hardcore relativists speaks about all music being equally good, I just get them to load a random exe file into a sample editor and play it back. The result is usually the most horrendous piece of crap you can imagine, that squeals and grates like a ZX spectrum on acid. I'm serious, it's not pure white noise, it really sounds horrible.
Or how about: out part of the universe is tuned for life?
In a sense though, what you say can apply to physical inventions too, as the same creativeness is required in that case - it's just you're working with physical materials rather than lines of code (I certainly believe all stuff is discovered, it's just that physical inventions probably have many more parts and ideas than most algorithms, and so could be considered an 'implementation'). Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if there's something like the Fourier transform, but much more complicated and 'inventive'.
That's the thing yes. I've heard before how algorithms are just too modular (and build off other work) to be worth meriting a patent.
Surely someone here on Slashdot can give a counterexample?
At the least though, it seems prudent to at least protect their implementation by not making it open source (not in all cases of course, as some base libraries and functionality should be open, and that helps humanity, such as the PNG spec), but that's a separate issue I guess.
Not to say the patent system isn't unfair/broken, but it's often been said that we shouldn't patent algorithms, and they should be OS etc. But how about if it's someone's livelihood, and years of research went into the algorithm, like I bet this did? Should programmers be given less due just because they're not working with real materials or making physical inventions?
Death by a thousand cuts indeed. I just saw this video detailing many of Unity's defects, and he's pretty objective in not just pin-pointing what the problems are, but also how they should be solved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJAjK6g8eE
I know next to nothing about economics, but surely a simpler way of putting it is: The people they owe the debt to will be less likely to trade with the US in the future if the US appears unreliable and the creditor won't get their money / money back.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that no one outside of your bizarre fever dream knows that.
Bingo. Yes I (lucid) dream about this most nights and await the day when monitor manufacturers wake up to my reality. For now, I've resorted to buying tailor-made mirrors to cover the TV and 2 monitors we have in this house. Friends remark at how wonderfully new and high-tech they look all the time, and I'm inclined to agree. That's what it's all about.
But I would do anything to have them pre-installed like this to begin with.
Why do we need protection screens at all? Can't they make the actual screens hardy enough to survive relatively rough usage?
We all know that the perfect monitor screen resembles (or should resemble) a highly polished mirror, and that the viewing of films, games, software or the web is a secondary effect that some people find occasionally useful.
So with that in mind, how is this technology a step forwards again?
Yes, a Basic Income will help fix that. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
The steady, but thundering march of automation will more than pay for the people who don't work (which in the end will be almost everyone).
Oh here we go again. The "broken windows" fallacy has fooled someone again.
Somewhat related; very recently on Reddit, there was an article about a much safer kind of saw called 'SawStop' (the promotional video is quite amusing). It stops spinning in 1/1000th of a second if you touch it, and saves many fingers/hands a year.
It turns out that the economic cost of table-saw injuries is around $2 billion. Meanwhile, the entire table-saw market is only $175 million (interesting read), or 10x less. In other words, if the big makers (Bosch, Black & Decker and co) used this tech, we'd save tons of money, pain and Unnecessary Surgery (which yes, is featured in Itchy and Scratchy's horror theme park).
Oh dear, but now we've put all those surgeons out of work repairing countless fingers that the previous inferior saws cut off!! Such a shame!
And hence why people have got to start equating higher unemployment as often being a good thing, instead of a bad.
If we had the energy, personally, I'd like the sky lit up at night as if it were day (and heated as such too). However, it'd be great to have some periods off during the year when there was no light at all for you astronomers.
Great answer - thanks.
Quick question for those with giant codebases such as this. How the heck do you test, and debug the software with those kind of lag times? Do you split everything up into smaller pieces or something? If so, then surely there are cases where you need to test something that requires EVERYTHING to be compiled. I can imagine such shot in the dark scenarios to be the stuff of pure nightmares.
I think you misinterpreted that. They didn't mean there was 'no chance' when they said that. They implied that whatever chance there was, that it wasn't going to change by users adding more comments where they were not meant to. It's a bug tracking forum, not a feature suggesting place. (See Google's latest post in the link where they say hi to us Slashdotters).