aircraft safety & maintenance regulations. all of Germany. all of Norway.
I was not arguing for more regulation of business, I was arguing for fixing the tax code that is currently constructed for the specific purpose of allowing companies to hide their income in offshore tax havens.
simplify the tax code, eliminate the loopholes and subsidies, a fictional 35% tax rate is meaningless when the laws are structured to ensure that no business with a competent accountant ever pays a cent of income tax and in fact harvests billions in subsidies from the taxpayer.
when a company like microsoft or apple "sell" their IP to an Irish "subsidiary" and then license the IP back under terms such that what would normally be called profit has to be "paid" to the subsidiary as licencing fees (which then get washed through the Caymans in a maneuver referred to as "the double irish") and then fraudulently declare no profits on their US operations, that is fraud plain and simple, but fraud that has been specifically written into the tax code due to these companies purchasing congress in exchange for re-election contributions and speaking fees.
prior art: IBM PC Jr sidecars, Be, PC104 (and derivatives and precusrors), all the old apple peripherals that were designed to be stacked on/under Mac SE
and they wonder why people feel no guilt about pirating music. the BMI/RIAA/MPAA/most record labels are corporate middleman thugs who care nothing about the content they are "licensing" but only about how many $$ they can extract out of the pipeline.
how many of those $24k went to the 4 ARTISTS who's work was "infringed"? probably about 0.7 microcents.
how much "damage" was actually done to those artists by the infringement? they probably actually made money as likely somebody at that restaurant that night heard the songs, was reminded of a happier time in their life and went on iTunes and bought a Rolling Stones or Elton John CD.
in theory, if you can land the rocket back on dry land, you can refurbish it and reuse it for enough less than the cost of the extra fuel/landing gear/etc to make it a net cost reduction over several launches.
yes, you are losing some mass fraction of orbital payload, but if the cost savings are sufficient to justify the extra initial expense, then it is a win.
90+% of programmers claiming to be working in C++ are really writing straight up C code with the occasional object. because they occasionally use an object and want to be lazy and declare their local variables at any random moment, they end up having to use the C++ compiler and so claim to be writing C++.
what they are really doing is writing bad C.
so, saying C++ is twice as popular as C is incredibly misleading.
I have long been a PC user, not because I like Windows, but because it was cheap, and Windows was functional enough for my needs (really prefer the fine grained control I get with Linux, but Linux and Laptops have never really played nice.
but I recently bought a new laptop for my wife, which sadly came with Win8. The laptop itself is a wonderful, solidly build Lenovo ultrabook.
Windows 8 makes it damn near unusable. the touchscreen oriented tile interface, the singletasking everything full screen all the time Metro interface all of it is garbage. might be good for a phone or tablet, but positively counterproductive on a laptop or desktop. I had to spend a fair amount of money and time finding and installing third party software to at least partially restore Win7 levels of usefulness
if the next release of windows doesn't restore Win 7 levels of usability, we will bite the bullet and spend the money for Macs.
Coverity is the commercial offshoot of the old Stanford Checker that found something like 2500 critical bugs in the linux kernel back when it (the checker) was just a grad school project. the bugs got fixed very quickly and linux was better for it.
that said, Coverity's definition of serious or critical is not necessarily what most developers could call critical (haven't read the bug list, but from personal experience.....)
in any case, this is a win. these bugs are now known, and google/community will fix them within days if they haven't already been fixed (I hope Coverity had the decency to inform google prior to their press release)
Focus mainly on short stories that the kids can read in a couple hours. chose a few (3 max for a full year, 1 max for semester) medium length novels to dive deep in.
stay away from Tolkien, except maybe some excerpts.
great short stories are plentiful in Asimov's "complete short stories" vols 1 and 2. in particular, "the Ugly Little Boy"
Clark's "nine billion names of god" is a tasty little bite that will make them think.
"The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells is remarkable in terms both of what it got right and what it got wrong.
cover a wide variety of genres (cyberpunk, space opera, hard, soft, fantasy/sci-fi blend)
but remember to focus on what makes great sci fi great. great sci fi is great literature wrapped in a (usually) futuristic/alternate universe. all the things that make
I'm looking for a cheap simple NAS. performance not particularly important, RAID unimportant.
what I would really like is something very much like my Linksys print server, which is a 3" x3" x.75 box that connects to my router and has a USB port on the back, but geared towards storage.
cheap matters. simple matters. multiple drives would be nice (connecting a usb hub to a single port is fine with me) performance? it's only serving a max of 3 computers on a wireless-g network, no video, mainly just a photo repository and critical docs backup.
I'm not interested in building something from scratch, I might be willing to re-purpose an existing device (a-la tomato on wrt54g) if it were easy enough.
I'm an engineer, just about everyone I know is an engineer of one form or another.
in my experience, engineers, if anything, tend to be anti-religious, socially liberal types who constantly look for rational, provable solutions to the world's problems.
not blow up abortion clinics, embassies, airplanes, shopping malls etc all while claiming the evil they do is god's will.
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and restore it to its natural habitat, roaming the halls of power eating everything in a suit or golf shirt.
"They say alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having.
Try catching gonorrhea sometime.
Good point....but remember this is Slashdot, nobody here indulges in the activity that transmits Gonorrhea. :-)
I have to use a doorknob from time to time. I swear that's how I caught it.
it's all about how you used the doorknob.
wrap that wrascal....
since Windows 1? that is an equivalent metric to how many of all versions of the iPhone.
and I would bet a lot more than 1 billion Windows licenses have been sold.
step 1: say something idiotic about how (internet villain of the week) is stealing from you when really they are driving fans and money to your door.
aircraft safety & maintenance regulations. all of Germany. all of Norway.
I was not arguing for more regulation of business, I was arguing for fixing the tax code that is currently constructed for the specific purpose of allowing companies to hide their income in offshore tax havens.
simplify the tax code, eliminate the loopholes and subsidies, a fictional 35% tax rate is meaningless when the laws are structured to ensure that no business with a competent accountant ever pays a cent of income tax and in fact harvests billions in subsidies from the taxpayer.
when a company like microsoft or apple "sell" their IP to an Irish "subsidiary" and then license the IP back under terms such that what would normally be called profit has to be "paid" to the subsidiary as licencing fees (which then get washed through the Caymans in a maneuver referred to as "the double irish") and then fraudulently declare no profits on their US operations, that is fraud plain and simple, but fraud that has been specifically written into the tax code due to these companies purchasing congress in exchange for re-election contributions and speaking fees.
"unless tax laws are changed to prevent the expatriation of cash to tax havens avoid paying taxes"
prior art: IBM PC Jr sidecars, Be, PC104 (and derivatives and precusrors), all the old apple peripherals that were designed to be stacked on/under Mac SE
and they wonder why people feel no guilt about pirating music. the BMI/RIAA/MPAA/most record labels are corporate middleman thugs who care nothing about the content they are "licensing" but only about how many $$ they can extract out of the pipeline.
how many of those $24k went to the 4 ARTISTS who's work was "infringed"? probably about 0.7 microcents.
how much "damage" was actually done to those artists by the infringement? they probably actually made money as likely somebody at that restaurant that night heard the songs, was reminded of a happier time in their life and went on iTunes and bought a Rolling Stones or Elton John CD.
in theory, if you can land the rocket back on dry land, you can refurbish it and reuse it for enough less than the cost of the extra fuel/landing gear/etc to make it a net cost reduction over several launches.
yes, you are losing some mass fraction of orbital payload, but if the cost savings are sufficient to justify the extra initial expense, then it is a win.
90+% of programmers claiming to be working in C++ are really writing straight up C code with the occasional object. because they occasionally use an object and want to be lazy and declare their local variables at any random moment, they end up having to use the C++ compiler and so claim to be writing C++.
what they are really doing is writing bad C.
so, saying C++ is twice as popular as C is incredibly misleading.
I have long been a PC user, not because I like Windows, but because it was cheap, and Windows was functional enough for my needs (really prefer the fine grained control I get with Linux, but Linux and Laptops have never really played nice.
but I recently bought a new laptop for my wife, which sadly came with Win8. The laptop itself is a wonderful, solidly build Lenovo ultrabook.
Windows 8 makes it damn near unusable. the touchscreen oriented tile interface, the singletasking everything full screen all the time Metro interface all of it is garbage. might be good for a phone or tablet, but positively counterproductive on a laptop or desktop. I had to spend a fair amount of money and time finding and installing third party software to at least partially restore Win7 levels of usefulness
if the next release of windows doesn't restore Win 7 levels of usability, we will bite the bullet and spend the money for Macs.
I fear the man who wants 1.
actually, nearly a straight ripoff of Animal farm
we use it at .
Coverity is the commercial offshoot of the old Stanford Checker that found something like 2500 critical bugs in the linux kernel back when it (the checker) was just a grad school project. the bugs got fixed very quickly and linux was better for it.
that said, Coverity's definition of serious or critical is not necessarily what most developers could call critical (haven't read the bug list, but from personal experience.....)
in any case, this is a win. these bugs are now known, and google/community will fix them within days if they haven't already been fixed (I hope Coverity had the decency to inform google prior to their press release)
why is it suddenly so hard to find a laptop with a good screen?
it is nearly impossible to find a laptop with anything other than 1366x768.
my 4 year old 14" dell has a 1440x900 screen and at the time a fairly high end cpu/memory combo (core duo/1gb). I paid $650 for it.
today I can't get a laptop with an equivalent screen for under 850. nearly all laptops don't even offer high res screen options anymore.
just because you can market a 1366x768 screen as HD does not make it good enough. especially if we are talking 17" laptops.
they will name him george.
is this a semester course or a full year?
Focus mainly on short stories that the kids can read in a couple hours. chose a few (3 max for a full year, 1 max for semester) medium length novels to dive deep in.
stay away from Tolkien, except maybe some excerpts.
great short stories are plentiful in Asimov's "complete short stories" vols 1 and 2. in particular, "the Ugly Little Boy"
Clark's "nine billion names of god" is a tasty little bite that will make them think.
"The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells is remarkable in terms both of what it got right and what it got wrong.
cover a wide variety of genres (cyberpunk, space opera, hard, soft, fantasy/sci-fi blend)
but remember to focus on what makes great sci fi great. great sci fi is great literature wrapped in a (usually) futuristic/alternate universe. all the things that make
get a job. work 5 years. figure out what you want to do in life.
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
for the first time in 8 years I am happy with something the republicans have done in congress.
any idiot who hasn't yet gotten off their a$$ to get their TWO FREE converter boxes is too st00pid to be allowed to watch the idiot box.
I'm looking for a cheap simple NAS. performance not particularly important, RAID unimportant.
what I would really like is something very much like my Linksys print server, which is a 3" x3" x .75 box that connects to my router and has a USB port on the back, but geared towards storage.
cheap matters.
simple matters.
multiple drives would be nice (connecting a usb hub to a single port is fine with me)
performance? it's only serving a max of 3 computers on a wireless-g network, no video, mainly just a photo repository and critical docs backup.
I'm not interested in building something from scratch, I might be willing to re-purpose an existing device (a-la tomato on wrt54g) if it were easy enough.
any ideas?
I'm an engineer, just about everyone I know is an engineer of one form or another.
in my experience, engineers, if anything, tend to be anti-religious, socially liberal types who constantly look for rational, provable solutions to the world's problems.
not blow up abortion clinics, embassies, airplanes, shopping malls etc all while claiming the evil they do is god's will.
what the hell the purpose of second life is, and why the hell I should care?
it's just another MMORPG but without any of the redeeming features of evercrack or WOW (i.e. dressing like a mideval elf and killing trolls)
maybe I'm just dumb, but really, what is the purpose?
expelling them? I mean come on. the solution to this particular crime is very simple.
Expel them and revoke all the credits they earned at the school in question.
Their inability to get admitted to another school or get a job will be punishment enough.
Dan Rather has zero credibility, except among the sheeple.
"nothing not to like" ?!?!?! BULS&*@!
musicmatch was a big hairy craptacular piece of garbage.