Practically speaking, PAE (the NAT of memory addressing) is sufficient for the vast majority of users (and the specialized applications requiring single huge memory spaces are moving to specialized compute nodes). The one desktop use case where an application would require >4GB of memory was a browser with a ton of tabs, but browsers have started moving each tab into its own process and reaping a security gain to boot. I'd much rather the adoption been the other way around, with IPv6 becoming commonplace and x64 languishing. Processes on my computer should be using the OS's IPC architecture anyway: nodes on the Internet have bigger benefits from being full hosts.
What this example really shows is that sales tax, for all of the theoretical perfection it has, is probably the tax structure with the highest frictional cost. Between the bureaucracy required to figure out who pays what, to the individuals that need to file the reams of paperwork to document what was paid when, to the time wasted by consumers attempting to estimate tax on a purchase, just pick any other way to raise revenue, it'll be better.
Besides which, despite attempts to exempt categories of goods from sales tax, it also winds up being a pretty regressive structure; rich people may spend a lot of money, but the portion of their annual income spent on taxable goods is small compared to someone in the middle class.
The minimum cost of a pack of cigarettes in Chicago was recently set at$10.50. A pack a day smoker (heavily biased towards low incomes) apparently has $70/wk to blow on psychoactive substances,but we don't see the cigarette tax going down "to prevent crime".
Skype may be connecting to the telephone network, but I don't see anywhere that they're building out infrastructure through right-of-ways. If they are liable for regulation in that way, then Slingbox should be regulated as a cable provider. They do exactly what Skype does, just unidirectionally: make a cable television endpoint, interconnected to a physical network that exists in regulated right-of-ways available via the Internet.
I've always seen the legitimizing factor in telecom regulation as being that they consume a finite public resource, either in the form of right-of-ways for wiring or spectrum for wireless operations. In exchange for exclusive access to the resources and, correspondingly, a monopoly (or oligopoly) on the service, limits are placed on rates and otherwise economically inviable services are mandated (such as rural access). In the case of Skype, while they certainly threaten telephone monopolies which rely on dedicated wiring in a right of way, I don't see any limited public resource whose consumption needs regulation. An unlimited number of providers could offer Internet telephony service and not overload telephone poles or drown each other in radio noise (assuming that there is finite demand, actual load (customers) on should be the same no matter how many buckets they're in).
There are two limits in your statement that no one in the administration is willing to place on these strikes:
If an American soldier decides to us military firepower on civilians, should a drone be used to stop him?
If an American is giving information, or aiding the enemy, and if it's ion hostile soil, and if the military can't get a team to the person to capture them, and we can't work out something for the local military/police to take action, then we can use a drone.
The statement that Mr. Paul wants from the administration is that the people we drone need to be a) shooting at people and b) not in the US.
The first restriction is the big one, because the whole basis is that there's no time to act and lives are in the balance. If you allow the executive to point and say "terrorist!" at anyone and without any process kill them, potentially for actions that won't lead to loss of life or property for some time, then our judicial system has effectively broken down.
Eric Holder has specifically stated his belief that the second restriction does not exist, and advised the president to this effect. In reality, the real problem isn't for an agent of the government to kill someone without a trial (there are parameters in which police may use lethal force at their own discretion). The problem is that at the present time the only agencies operating weapon-equipped drones are military entities (which were prohibited from operating domestically by the Posse Comitatus Act until last year's NDAA permitted an exception provided you call your target a terrorist first) or intelligence agency (specifically the CIA, which is not supposed to operate domestically and has very little transparency to allow a determination of facts after the crisis requiring extra-judicial action has passed).
This isn't the first administration to attempt to overrule the legislature (forcing these filibusters of nominees as the final remaining leverage over the executive) and judiciary. The Bush whitehouse invented the whole concept of "if I say terrorist, I can do whatever I want", and even started the ball rolling on the specific issue of domestic military operations (under the guise of public safety after disasters, of both natural and terroristic persuasions. It would be really nice if this administration could fulfill the promises of 2008 and be the one that stopped.
In their Kickstarter video, they show several models built up from the table's surface. This material also appears to harden much faster than a hot glue gun, and have a faster feed rate, given that vertical features formed just about as fast as ones on the table. One thing they do seem to need to work out is how to end a line; the operator in the video spins a tight circle and pulls away like a hot glass worker. It only sort of works here, since there's no flame to burnish the burr away with.
You're still downloading the game and resources, it's just disguised as the startup being painfully laggy, with the added fun of having to download it all again if you want to play on another machine or your browser decides to clean house.
I can see it adding a little bit of security by obscurity by requiring an attacker who has acquired an expired cert to set the clock back just the right amount before using it, rather than just resetting to the middle ages. Of course, if you can set the clock on someone's machine you probably have little need to convince it to accept a bad cert...
Corporations aren't inherently evil;) but from the practical side, usually the tuition payback is spread out over a few years, or is done like a signing bonus where you pay it back if you leave within a certain period of time.
The crux of these loopholes seems to be that by and large, corporate taxes are levied on net profit, not gross revenue. A company will make $10B in the US, then license something from a Bahamanian subsidiary for $10B, resulting in a profit for the US component of $0. If they had to pay on the total revenue, losing money to themselves would only increase exposure (since the US and Bahamanian divisions would both pay tax on the same $10B).
In the example of a US-based construction firm that made some money through a Canadian subsidiary, Canada would get the tax on that part of the work and the US on their domestic revenues.
The problem with this taxation model is that it would be a heavy weight on young companies; businesses generally run losses for the first several years of operation, even without paying taxes.
Obviously this is my layman's view of the way corporate income tax works; I assume that there is a certain complexity to the way that revenue and profit are calculated for tax purposes, and that there are frictional costs associated with various maneuvers.
Citation? I suspect that those numbers are very susceptible to how you do the counting. Does one guy spending his life savings on an idea count as private equity? What is the metric for success?
On consumer, desktop equipment, yes. Consumer mobile equipment is starting to see ludicrous DPI even in middle of the road devices, and commercial medical displays have offered very high DPI for some time.
The OP's point is actually a misunderstanding of how the division works. The Keysian notion that spending in excess of tax revenue will cause goods and services to magically emerge from the ether in perfect proportion to demand doesn't enter into it (in reality, the effect of inflation is just a wealth tax on savings that is difficult both for a government to accurately set and for savers to predict, both largely due to the political idiocy present in any non-theoretical government).
We've had PAE since 1995, which allowed you to load 64GB of physical memory onto an x86, 32-bit machine. Sure your per-process limit is still (slightly less than) 4GB, but it'll still let you multitask several large applications (and I think some browsers have actually started breaking tabs out into separate address spaces, since apparently now web documents require as much memory to render as 3D games).
Unfortunately, the automatically generated, easy to remove support structures were a key feature that form 1 advertised for the machine (probably second only to the high resolution of the prints). The tool becomes much less versatile without them.
This is a concept study, sponsored in part by GM. The batteries they have are the ones for a Volt, so those are the ones that were used. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that they don't have a warehouse full of these setups ready to sell at Home Depot, but that they had some batteries that were used during development of the Volt and have a lot more miles on them then the average consumer-owned car.
This does show what a technical challenge electric car batteries are: these were charged and discharged beyond the point where they could deliver useful, sustained power to a car, but are still more than capable of handling the lower current, long duration needs of a house. If the nuclear industry could figure out a cool application of their discarded (but still quite energetic) fuel, maybe we could get off of coal...
I was going to rebut with how large a download Chrome is, but they use some sort of non-standard install manager rather than a downloadable package. You also wind up downloading all of the application code and data to view the page anyway (even if the Javascript code for this is more compact than an executable (doubtful), the dataset is the big piece and that's coming down either way). Plus, the native app probably isn't going to suck down nearly as much CPU.
For a private citizen, taxes are just a cost of business (living) as well. Just as I need to buy or grow food to survive, I must pay taxes to avoid being shot or jailed. It is more efficient today than in previous centuries, as rather than guessing how many thugs I'll have to pay for my life,I know in advance how much I need to remit to a central clearinghouse.
While the impact of the storm seems large, it is a fairly small proportion of the country (the most densely populated part, granted) which is affected. And I would ask, is there any part that is more impaired than the normal state of the late 18th-century citizens who voted the first time?
The "From" field of an SMTP transaction isn't authenticated, it's just something that the sender supplies. It works the same way, and has the same reliability as the return address area of a snail mail envelope. Yes, the mail carrier (or SMTP server) could check it against the mailbox it is collected from, but practically that doesn't happen (and in fact for email, as it may have been relayed through intermediate servers, there's situations where the @ clause of the from field wouldn't match the RDNS of the connection). You can send mail that appears to be from your boss, a.mil address, even "marvin@olympus.mars" if you want.
The way I read this was that what they were allowing was to obtain an absentee ballot by email (fill out a web form and they email you a generated PDF); the mechanism for returning the ballot wasn't clear (I assumed that you'd snail mail it back like a normal absentee ballot, but I could be wrong).
A "full HD" display at 16:9 is 1920x1080 pixels. Keeping the horizontal pixel count, 1920, the same, a 16:10 display would be 1920x1200. The additional 180 vertical pixels is a ~10% increase in vertical space.
You do point out, correctly, that it is also a 10% increase in the area of display that must be produced (Even assuming that increasing the size of a blank has a low marginal cost, the flaws per unit area are constant and reduce yield). For economies of scale, I don't think that there's that much loss though, as a purpose-built television in the 20-26" range likely would target a 720-line resolution due to the increased viewing distance. The finer pixel pitch is only really useful in a computer display.
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Practically speaking, PAE (the NAT of memory addressing) is sufficient for the vast majority of users (and the specialized applications requiring single huge memory spaces are moving to specialized compute nodes). The one desktop use case where an application would require >4GB of memory was a browser with a ton of tabs, but browsers have started moving each tab into its own process and reaping a security gain to boot. I'd much rather the adoption been the other way around, with IPv6 becoming commonplace and x64 languishing. Processes on my computer should be using the OS's IPC architecture anyway: nodes on the Internet have bigger benefits from being full hosts.
What this example really shows is that sales tax, for all of the theoretical perfection it has, is probably the tax structure with the highest frictional cost. Between the bureaucracy required to figure out who pays what, to the individuals that need to file the reams of paperwork to document what was paid when, to the time wasted by consumers attempting to estimate tax on a purchase, just pick any other way to raise revenue, it'll be better.
Besides which, despite attempts to exempt categories of goods from sales tax, it also winds up being a pretty regressive structure; rich people may spend a lot of money, but the portion of their annual income spent on taxable goods is small compared to someone in the middle class.
This seems like a really latent reimplementation of inetd.
The minimum cost of a pack of cigarettes in Chicago was recently set at$10.50. A pack a day smoker (heavily biased towards low incomes) apparently has $70/wk to blow on psychoactive substances,but we don't see the cigarette tax going down "to prevent crime".
Skype may be connecting to the telephone network, but I don't see anywhere that they're building out infrastructure through right-of-ways. If they are liable for regulation in that way, then Slingbox should be regulated as a cable provider. They do exactly what Skype does, just unidirectionally: make a cable television endpoint, interconnected to a physical network that exists in regulated right-of-ways available via the Internet.
I've always seen the legitimizing factor in telecom regulation as being that they consume a finite public resource, either in the form of right-of-ways for wiring or spectrum for wireless operations. In exchange for exclusive access to the resources and, correspondingly, a monopoly (or oligopoly) on the service, limits are placed on rates and otherwise economically inviable services are mandated (such as rural access). In the case of Skype, while they certainly threaten telephone monopolies which rely on dedicated wiring in a right of way, I don't see any limited public resource whose consumption needs regulation. An unlimited number of providers could offer Internet telephony service and not overload telephone poles or drown each other in radio noise (assuming that there is finite demand, actual load (customers) on should be the same no matter how many buckets they're in).
There are two limits in your statement that no one in the administration is willing to place on these strikes:
If an American soldier decides to us military firepower on civilians, should a drone be used to stop him?
If an American is giving information, or aiding the enemy, and if it's ion hostile soil, and if the military can't get a team to the person to capture them, and we can't work out something for the local military/police to take action, then we can use a drone.
The statement that Mr. Paul wants from the administration is that the people we drone need to be a) shooting at people and b) not in the US.
The first restriction is the big one, because the whole basis is that there's no time to act and lives are in the balance. If you allow the executive to point and say "terrorist!" at anyone and without any process kill them, potentially for actions that won't lead to loss of life or property for some time, then our judicial system has effectively broken down.
Eric Holder has specifically stated his belief that the second restriction does not exist, and advised the president to this effect. In reality, the real problem isn't for an agent of the government to kill someone without a trial (there are parameters in which police may use lethal force at their own discretion). The problem is that at the present time the only agencies operating weapon-equipped drones are military entities (which were prohibited from operating domestically by the Posse Comitatus Act until last year's NDAA permitted an exception provided you call your target a terrorist first) or intelligence agency (specifically the CIA, which is not supposed to operate domestically and has very little transparency to allow a determination of facts after the crisis requiring extra-judicial action has passed).
This isn't the first administration to attempt to overrule the legislature (forcing these filibusters of nominees as the final remaining leverage over the executive) and judiciary. The Bush whitehouse invented the whole concept of "if I say terrorist, I can do whatever I want", and even started the ball rolling on the specific issue of domestic military operations (under the guise of public safety after disasters, of both natural and terroristic persuasions. It would be really nice if this administration could fulfill the promises of 2008 and be the one that stopped.
It is unlikely that he will be able to get a T-Mobile signal in an area where addresses are apportioned by RIPE.
In their Kickstarter video, they show several models built up from the table's surface. This material also appears to harden much faster than a hot glue gun, and have a faster feed rate, given that vertical features formed just about as fast as ones on the table. One thing they do seem to need to work out is how to end a line; the operator in the video spins a tight circle and pulls away like a hot glass worker. It only sort of works here, since there's no flame to burnish the burr away with.
You're still downloading the game and resources, it's just disguised as the startup being painfully laggy, with the added fun of having to download it all again if you want to play on another machine or your browser decides to clean house.
I can see it adding a little bit of security by obscurity by requiring an attacker who has acquired an expired cert to set the clock back just the right amount before using it, rather than just resetting to the middle ages. Of course, if you can set the clock on someone's machine you probably have little need to convince it to accept a bad cert ...
Corporations aren't inherently evil ;) but from the practical side, usually the tuition payback is spread out over a few years, or is done like a signing bonus where you pay it back if you leave within a certain period of time.
The crux of these loopholes seems to be that by and large, corporate taxes are levied on net profit, not gross revenue. A company will make $10B in the US, then license something from a Bahamanian subsidiary for $10B, resulting in a profit for the US component of $0. If they had to pay on the total revenue, losing money to themselves would only increase exposure (since the US and Bahamanian divisions would both pay tax on the same $10B).
In the example of a US-based construction firm that made some money through a Canadian subsidiary, Canada would get the tax on that part of the work and the US on their domestic revenues.
The problem with this taxation model is that it would be a heavy weight on young companies; businesses generally run losses for the first several years of operation, even without paying taxes.
Obviously this is my layman's view of the way corporate income tax works; I assume that there is a certain complexity to the way that revenue and profit are calculated for tax purposes, and that there are frictional costs associated with various maneuvers.
Citation? I suspect that those numbers are very susceptible to how you do the counting. Does one guy spending his life savings on an idea count as private equity? What is the metric for success?
On consumer, desktop equipment, yes. Consumer mobile equipment is starting to see ludicrous DPI even in middle of the road devices, and commercial medical displays have offered very high DPI for some time.
The OP's point is actually a misunderstanding of how the division works. The Keysian notion that spending in excess of tax revenue will cause goods and services to magically emerge from the ether in perfect proportion to demand doesn't enter into it (in reality, the effect of inflation is just a wealth tax on savings that is difficult both for a government to accurately set and for savers to predict, both largely due to the political idiocy present in any non-theoretical government).
We've had PAE since 1995, which allowed you to load 64GB of physical memory onto an x86, 32-bit machine. Sure your per-process limit is still (slightly less than) 4GB, but it'll still let you multitask several large applications (and I think some browsers have actually started breaking tabs out into separate address spaces, since apparently now web documents require as much memory to render as 3D games).
Unfortunately, the automatically generated, easy to remove support structures were a key feature that form 1 advertised for the machine (probably second only to the high resolution of the prints). The tool becomes much less versatile without them.
This is a concept study, sponsored in part by GM. The batteries they have are the ones for a Volt, so those are the ones that were used. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that they don't have a warehouse full of these setups ready to sell at Home Depot, but that they had some batteries that were used during development of the Volt and have a lot more miles on them then the average consumer-owned car.
This does show what a technical challenge electric car batteries are: these were charged and discharged beyond the point where they could deliver useful, sustained power to a car, but are still more than capable of handling the lower current, long duration needs of a house. If the nuclear industry could figure out a cool application of their discarded (but still quite energetic) fuel, maybe we could get off of coal ...
I was going to rebut with how large a download Chrome is, but they use some sort of non-standard install manager rather than a downloadable package. You also wind up downloading all of the application code and data to view the page anyway (even if the Javascript code for this is more compact than an executable (doubtful), the dataset is the big piece and that's coming down either way). Plus, the native app probably isn't going to suck down nearly as much CPU.
For a private citizen, taxes are just a cost of business (living) as well. Just as I need to buy or grow food to survive, I must pay taxes to avoid being shot or jailed. It is more efficient today than in previous centuries, as rather than guessing how many thugs I'll have to pay for my life,I know in advance how much I need to remit to a central clearinghouse.
While the impact of the storm seems large, it is a fairly small proportion of the country (the most densely populated part, granted) which is affected. And I would ask, is there any part that is more impaired than the normal state of the late 18th-century citizens who voted the first time?
The "From" field of an SMTP transaction isn't authenticated, it's just something that the sender supplies. It works the same way, and has the same reliability as the return address area of a snail mail envelope. Yes, the mail carrier (or SMTP server) could check it against the mailbox it is collected from, but practically that doesn't happen (and in fact for email, as it may have been relayed through intermediate servers, there's situations where the @ clause of the from field wouldn't match the RDNS of the connection). You can send mail that appears to be from your boss, a .mil address, even "marvin@olympus.mars" if you want.
The way I read this was that what they were allowing was to obtain an absentee ballot by email (fill out a web form and they email you a generated PDF); the mechanism for returning the ballot wasn't clear (I assumed that you'd snail mail it back like a normal absentee ballot, but I could be wrong).
A circular house that transfers load to a central pillar has been done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
It's pretty awesome, but you pretty much have to go custom for all of your furniture, counters, bathroom appliances, etc.
A "full HD" display at 16:9 is 1920x1080 pixels. Keeping the horizontal pixel count, 1920, the same, a 16:10 display would be 1920x1200. The additional 180 vertical pixels is a ~10% increase in vertical space.
You do point out, correctly, that it is also a 10% increase in the area of display that must be produced (Even assuming that increasing the size of a blank has a low marginal cost, the flaws per unit area are constant and reduce yield). For economies of scale, I don't think that there's that much loss though, as a purpose-built television in the 20-26" range likely would target a 720-line resolution due to the increased viewing distance. The finer pixel pitch is only really useful in a computer display.