In fact I think there are three sources of energy on earth: Solar Nuclear Stored friction (hot core) everything is a stored form of something else, and the three above are a stored form of the big bang. -nB
Why on earth would you tie taxes to wealth? Taxing income and consumption gets your cut of both the production and expendature of the wealth, so why tax it as well? By doing that you would remove the incentive to amass any sum of money beyond a pittance, the end result of which would be vastly increased government spending to compensate for the lack of savings by the people.
Also, what benifits specifically are tied to wealth? -nB
Yes it sucks, but if he had insisted on keeping his salary then even more employees would have been cut. I fully expect that he would not have done it if he couldn't have afforded it without impacting his lifestyle, doesn't change that what he did was a good thing. I was meerly pointing out to the GGP who said the norm was leaches that there are people at the other side of the spectrum as well and that somewhere in the middle (not leeching, but not taking positive actions) is likely the norm. -nB
I'm afraid you missed the point then. These people are leaches on the system. It has nothing to do with who's being taxed. As the GP said, the top %5 pay the majority of the tax dollars already, both in total $$ and % of income. That the type of people you mentioned exist is a sad fact of human nature and the kama system hopefully will get them, but for each one of them there is a John Chambers (CEO, cisco) who lowered his pay (to $1.00 IIRC) to help the company save money and to up morale for his employees, there is a Craig Barret, who durring the downturn took a 75% pay hit because that is what was fair, and there are others just like them. These guys (and those like them) pay 40% of the federal government bankroll and are GoodPeople(tm).
"You should seriously consider getting some meds to control those genocidal tendancies of yours:-)"
I think you mis-spelled speciescidal. . . though I suppose that is still genocidal at the heart of it.
-nB
The Xbox hits an excellent price/performance ratio when hacked. While the costs of the unit are higher than the retail price, I think that even if sold for a 10% markup above real cost (inclusive of marketing, manufacturing, shipping, etc.) it would be an excellent value as a media PC. If Google were to take this same basic set top box approach and simply polish the edges up a bit adding in a keyboard/trackball in place of the game controllers, and some basic applications in their OS rather than games, I think they would have a winner.
The proverbial Joe Sixpack will reject a non-windows PC for the same reason stated earlier: Dora/Blues Clues/whatever will fail to run [easily]. If you position this as an extension to the home PC, say for watching movies, viewing pictures, surfing the web, it will be a success. If you target either porn or piracy you will succeed. Sad to say it, but I think it's true. -nB
When I worked at a comm silicon company we were fabless. We always referred to TSMC and UMC as fab houses, not foundries. Similarly when we contracted with IBM for an ASIC design we used the Burlington FAB (as opposed to foundry).
Now maybe other geos or corporate cultures refer to this differently, but for both companies I've worked for it was foundry, fab && || fab house, mask house, sort, etc. One company had ~1200 employees the current one has many times that. Cheers, -nB
foundry!=fab. The foundry produces the siicon ingot and wafers but does not process them. Owning your own foundry lets you more tightly control the quality of the silicon going into your fabs. Going in together on foundry capacity is more of a testing the waters approach before diving into a fab (or 5) -nB
4. Both removing and restoring IE is risky and difficult. IE is complex with extensive hooks built into Windows, for efficiency and functionality. Thus unplugging it from your system may impact Internet connectivity, Windows functionality, and break functionality in Microsoft Office and non-MS products.
5. IE is more than a browser, it is the foundation for Internet functionality in Windows. If you compare the install base for IE 6 SP1 (43.5MB) to FF (4.5MB), it provides an indication IE is more than just a browser.
from quick search on google, didn't dig further, but I remember other discussions that IE dug fairly deep into Windows (Explorer, and kernal) its self.
Ah, but in the case of OE, you can count on the user clicking your link to here expecting and assuming it to be a link to where it says it is a link to, thus virtually guarenteeing that you will be able to use IE's vulnerabilities to load your exploits. -nB
so rather than linked should I say intertwined? My point was that IE hooks into the windows kernal at some fairly deep levels, as well as the kernal hooking into many of IE's routines. M$ is big on hiding their propriatary stuff and those hooks and calls, while commented out for the mac version and such would still be there, for the OSS community to ponder. I doubt M$ would want even that level of exposure. -nB
The 0 poster below states it's a different codebase, but I doubt that... Any way in the case of Windows, many of the explorer functions and such use the same libraries as IE uses. they have become so intertwined that it is nearly impossible to extricate IE froma a system and still have a functional OS. -nB
IE is too linked into the windows kernal. the source for those links would still be in the Mac source. This would yeild too much visability into the Windows kernal. Thus, M$ will not rls the source end of story. -nB
What we need is glass parking lots I tell ya. Lots of them. Especially in Dubai, afterall they need space for the cars carrying the people to fill those tall buildings.
While I was mostly joking, there are sections of GEO that are already quite crowded. All things considered it's the most prime realestate in the universe (as far as humans are concerned). Almost all comm sats, tv sats, GPS/related sats are in GEO orbit. -nB
"more and more satellites of higher accuracy until the whole thing is an esentially unjammable mess."
Or: more and more satellites of higher accuracy (that start to bump into each other clogging Geo orbit) until the whole thing is esentially a log jam.;-) -nB
If you are a database engineer who loves a challenge but supports civil liberties, would you take on this project?
Loves challenge == do it supports civil liberties != do it if you && them together then you find you should not take on this task. [sarcasim]why did you even need to ask such a stupidly simple question. any nitwit who's taken any math classes that cover logic could answer this in a flash. [/sarcasim] -nB
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"Calculating conservation of energy back to the big bang is an exercise in futility"
/., that's what we do. you must be new here :P
This is
-nB
In fact I think there are three sources of energy on earth:
Solar
Nuclear
Stored friction (hot core)
everything is a stored form of something else, and the three above are a stored form of the big bang.
-nB
Why on earth would you tie taxes to wealth?
Taxing income and consumption gets your cut of both the production and expendature of the wealth, so why tax it as well? By doing that you would remove the incentive to amass any sum of money beyond a pittance, the end result of which would be vastly increased government spending to compensate for the lack of savings by the people.
Also, what benifits specifically are tied to wealth?
-nB
Yes it sucks, but if he had insisted on keeping his salary then even more employees would have been cut. I fully expect that he would not have done it if he couldn't have afforded it without impacting his lifestyle, doesn't change that what he did was a good thing. I was meerly pointing out to the GGP who said the norm was leaches that there are people at the other side of the spectrum as well and that somewhere in the middle (not leeching, but not taking positive actions) is likely the norm.
-nB
link to $1.00 paycut. Turns out the chairman of the board did the same.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-256405.html
-nB
I'm afraid you missed the point then.
These people are leaches on the system. It has nothing to do with who's being taxed. As the GP said, the top %5 pay the majority of the tax dollars already, both in total $$ and % of income. That the type of people you mentioned exist is a sad fact of human nature and the kama system hopefully will get them, but for each one of them there is a John Chambers (CEO, cisco) who lowered his pay (to $1.00 IIRC) to help the company save money and to up morale for his employees, there is a Craig Barret, who durring the downturn took a 75% pay hit because that is what was fair, and there are others just like them. These guys (and those like them) pay 40% of the federal government bankroll and are GoodPeople(tm).
[/rant]
-nB
It's worse than that! He proceeded to place them in the public domain, thus preventing step 4: profit!
-nB
"You should seriously consider getting some meds to control those genocidal tendancies of yours :-)"
I think you mis-spelled speciescidal. . . though I suppose that is still genocidal at the heart of it.
-nB
The Xbox hits an excellent price/performance ratio when hacked. While the costs of the unit are higher than the retail price, I think that even if sold for a 10% markup above real cost (inclusive of marketing, manufacturing, shipping, etc.) it would be an excellent value as a media PC. If Google were to take this same basic set top box approach and simply polish the edges up a bit adding in a keyboard/trackball in place of the game controllers, and some basic applications in their OS rather than games, I think they would have a winner.
The proverbial Joe Sixpack will reject a non-windows PC for the same reason stated earlier: Dora/Blues Clues/whatever will fail to run [easily]. If you position this as an extension to the home PC, say for watching movies, viewing pictures, surfing the web, it will be a success. If you target either porn or piracy you will succeed. Sad to say it, but I think it's true.
-nB
Fairly sure, yes.
When I worked at a comm silicon company we were fabless. We always referred to TSMC and UMC as fab houses, not foundries. Similarly when we contracted with IBM for an ASIC design we used the Burlington FAB (as opposed to foundry).
Now maybe other geos or corporate cultures refer to this differently, but for both companies I've worked for it was foundry, fab && || fab house, mask house, sort, etc.
One company had ~1200 employees the current one has many times that.
Cheers,
-nB
foundry!=fab.
The foundry produces the siicon ingot and wafers but does not process them. Owning your own foundry lets you more tightly control the quality of the silicon going into your fabs.
Going in together on foundry capacity is more of a testing the waters approach before diving into a fab (or 5)
-nB
from quick search on google, didn't dig further, but I remember other discussions that IE dug fairly deep into Windows (Explorer, and kernal) its self.
-nB
Ah, but in the case of OE, you can count on the user clicking your link to here expecting and assuming it to be a link to where it says it is a link to, thus virtually guarenteeing that you will be able to use IE's vulnerabilities to load your exploits.
-nB
so rather than linked should I say intertwined? My point was that IE hooks into the windows kernal at some fairly deep levels, as well as the kernal hooking into many of IE's routines. M$ is big on hiding their propriatary stuff and those hooks and calls, while commented out for the mac version and such would still be there, for the OSS community to ponder. I doubt M$ would want even that level of exposure.
-nB
"Oh, and what does Exel and Outlook do? Does Outlook Express do it any faster?"
Load VB exploits, load HTML exploits, and I think the correct answer for the last one is "yes".
-nB
The 0 poster below states it's a different codebase, but I doubt that...
Any way in the case of Windows, many of the explorer functions and such use the same libraries as IE uses. they have become so intertwined that it is nearly impossible to extricate IE froma a system and still have a functional OS.
-nB
my bad then. . .
What are some of the reasons anyway?
-nB
IE is too linked into the windows kernal. the source for those links would still be in the Mac source. This would yeild too much visability into the Windows kernal. Thus, M$ will not rls the source end of story.
-nB
What we need is glass parking lots I tell ya.
Lots of them.
Especially in Dubai, afterall they need space for the cars carrying the people to fill those tall buildings.
(sorry, couldn't resist the bait).
-nB
IMHO that should have been #1.
-nB
:heh:
ditto. But damn I love that song.
-nB
While I was mostly joking, there are sections of GEO that are already quite crowded. All things considered it's the most prime realestate in the universe (as far as humans are concerned). Almost all comm sats, tv sats, GPS/related sats are in GEO orbit.
-nB
"more and more satellites of higher accuracy until the whole thing is an esentially unjammable mess."
;-)
Or:
more and more satellites of higher accuracy (that start to bump into each other clogging Geo orbit) until the whole thing is esentially a log jam.
-nB
As I read the summary all I could think was: This is gonna be good!
Anyone know where the shareholder meetings are held? I may buy 1 share, just to attend the meetings if they are nearby me (NorCal).
-nB
If you are a database engineer who loves a challenge but supports civil liberties, would you take on this project?
Loves challenge == do it
supports civil liberties != do it
if you && them together then you find you should not take on this task.
[sarcasim]why did you even need to ask such a stupidly simple question. any nitwit who's taken any math classes that cover logic could answer this in a flash. [/sarcasim]
-nB