Social Security had a surplus "During 2009, total benefits of $686 billion were paid out versus income (taxes and interest) of $807 billion, a $121 billion annual surplus"
There is more than enough income to the federal government to pay all of social security and medicare (They have their own dedicated tax of your 7% contribution plus your employers 7% contribution). Everyones SS and Medicare will get paid, unless Obama specifically decides not to pay them, to prove his OWN point.
Debts will get paid, the US will and cannot default because there is more than enough income to pay for our interest to our creditors.
It is how it works, this is how legislation gets passed.
Wait, you fucking think the US health system represents a free market model? Are you out of your fucking mind? Besides nuclear it is the most regulated industry in the United States. What a fucking insane statement, free market my ass.
The fees to get a product 501k approved are $4000 if you are a large business or $2000 if you are a small (and small to them is $100,000,000/yr) and a yearly $2000 fee.
now, easy for gaxosmithkline to afford but not for a two person indie shop. The large companies haven't innovated at all in the mobile market, almost all top apps in the Appe Medical App Store are from small shops
bravo FDA for destroying the innovators in the market reducing health care costs.
That doesn't really know what he is talking about and run with the story. Just because he withdrew his App from the US market on the Apple App Store doesn't mean he still can't be sued. US & UK have multiple agreements in place to protect IP between them. The mere fact he had already sold software with infringing IP on the store opens him up to suits. (And no, I do not agree with the Lodsys suits, it is BS)
If he was making decent money, the percentage of what Lodsys wanted was nothing compared to what he would be losing by pulling out. So, he obviously is making squat.
Do you have any idea what slave labor is? Sitting in an air conditioned office with free cokes while you sort papers does not quite compare to being tied in chains and forced to work in a diamond mine.
You are blowing serious amounts of money on college, thousands to pay for worthless non-core classes to fill your year - yet you gripe over doing work that is beneficial to your career, gratis?
Take whatever you can get related to your intended career for your summer internships, they will be insanely beneficial when you get into the real world. You getting an A+ in your algorithms class doesn't matter to me at all as someone doing hiring. You having experience, knowing how the real world works is what matters.
Internships, paid or unpaid should be stressed more by school programs, their value is much more than anyone comprehends.
Apple as a company cares a lot more about their brand image than most. If suddenly Apple had 90% of it's customers who uploaded pirated music being sued because of a service Apple provided - it would be bad. I'd assume that yearly fee you pay goes to the RIAA, because Apple being a hardware company cares little about software when it is driving their hardware sales.
I think the iTunes Match is brilliant, from the RIAA perspective. Think it, you pay $25 (Which probably goes to them) and now, Apple will replace all of your music with (I would assume) DRM'd versions of the music and delete your existing DRM free music. So now, as a music producer, this is AMAZING. Why? Well, you aren't losing money on this because the users already have the songs - BUT, now you are replacing "Free" music that is sharable with DRM'd music that can no longer be pirated. This "theoretically" could be great for them just because it would reduce the shareable MP3 content.
Uh wrong on many fronts. apple takes 30% and Android is probably even worse off, since google makes absolutely no claims to defend people due to the "free" nature of Android.
Apple pretty much has to step in at this point. I suspect they will file an injunction of some sort for this suit. The implications will be bad if Lodsys can continue to rape companies.
A bunch if Bureaucrats realized their budgets would shrink an astonishing amount if they go to the "cloud" - so they opt for "consolidation" which will never happen because everyone in charge of their little fiefdoms won't give up power (and money)
IF and only IF the caps actually CHANGED. As it sits now, AT&T's "Tiered" plans haven't changed in four god damned years. The 250MB bottom tier should be at least 1GB now for transfer.
The real criminal act is they aren't updating what you get, they simply keep the limits static. If they want to adopt this shit business model then they need to keep up with upping the bandwidth limits.
I went into CS "way back" in 2000, hadn't ever touched a compiler, never written a line of code, but knew I'd enjoy it. First programming class was C, I worked my ass off to learn and figure it out. Before the 1st semester was over, I had picked up a book on OOP (Java) and taught myself OOP and Java over winter break. Came back for CS2 already prepared and ready to go.
You either have the aptitude to learn it or you can go off and get your "Business Information Technology" degree. Do the work or leave, which is what it boils down to.
So, Apple allows you to install any software you want, by giving it the root password... So a user action. Yet, Apple rolls out the App Store on OS X to avoid this issue, and/. lambastes them because they are making the OS less "free" - so which do you want - the ability to totally fuck your computer up - or a guardian angel?
Now you can easily self publish any book you want. What margins do a writer make right now?
From what I gather it is at MOST 15% of the NET profits, so a $25.00 book may only make you as a writer $2 at most after all the "Costs" of selling are added up.
So, if you sell the book yourself through Apple, you get to keep 70% of your profit, doing some simple math that turns out to be $17.50.
Now who is the evil company, publishers who give you $2 on your $25 book or Apple who gives you $17.50?
Hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of legitimate business uses for the iPad. Just because you have a myopic view of them does not negate their use on the enterprise.
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So they plan to make their shit service even worse?
$2.16 trillion is taken in each year.
Social Security had a surplus "During 2009, total benefits of $686 billion were paid out versus income (taxes and interest) of $807 billion, a $121 billion annual surplus"
Can't find medicare quickly, but will look.
Debt payments are around $189 billion
Wiki aggregates it nicely with all the standard references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
There *IS* more than enough money to pay these things.
They didn't give a fuck then, why would they give a fuck now?
Same happened when Obama rammed through his "Health Care Reforms" and - they didn't give a fuck then.
So now this is important because it is something Obama cares about?
There is more than enough income to the federal government to pay all of social security and medicare (They have their own dedicated tax of your 7% contribution plus your employers 7% contribution). Everyones SS and Medicare will get paid, unless Obama specifically decides not to pay them, to prove his OWN point.
Debts will get paid, the US will and cannot default because there is more than enough income to pay for our interest to our creditors.
It is how it works, this is how legislation gets passed.
This is how democracy works, FYI. It isn't extortion, it is how that pesky legislative process works. Troubling, I know.
Wait, you fucking think the US health system represents a free market model? Are you out of your fucking mind? Besides nuclear it is the most regulated industry in the United States. What a fucking insane statement, free market my ass.
The fees to get a product 501k approved are $4000 if you are a large business or $2000 if you are a small (and small to them is $100,000,000/yr) and a yearly $2000 fee.
now, easy for gaxosmithkline to afford but not for a two person indie shop. The large companies haven't innovated at all in the mobile market, almost all top apps in the Appe Medical App Store are from small shops
bravo FDA for destroying the innovators in the market reducing health care costs.
This will not end well for you (hopefully)
That doesn't really know what he is talking about and run with the story. Just because he withdrew his App from the US market on the Apple App Store doesn't mean he still can't be sued. US & UK have multiple agreements in place to protect IP between them. The mere fact he had already sold software with infringing IP on the store opens him up to suits. (And no, I do not agree with the Lodsys suits, it is BS)
If he was making decent money, the percentage of what Lodsys wanted was nothing compared to what he would be losing by pulling out. So, he obviously is making squat.
Great non-story.
Do you have any idea what slave labor is? Sitting in an air conditioned office with free cokes while you sort papers does not quite compare to being tied in chains and forced to work in a diamond mine.
The fact you even compare the two is sickening.
You are blowing serious amounts of money on college, thousands to pay for worthless non-core classes to fill your year - yet you gripe over doing work that is beneficial to your career, gratis?
Take whatever you can get related to your intended career for your summer internships, they will be insanely beneficial when you get into the real world. You getting an A+ in your algorithms class doesn't matter to me at all as someone doing hiring. You having experience, knowing how the real world works is what matters.
Internships, paid or unpaid should be stressed more by school programs, their value is much more than anyone comprehends.
Why does anyone seem to care?
Apple as a company cares a lot more about their brand image than most. If suddenly Apple had 90% of it's customers who uploaded pirated music being sued because of a service Apple provided - it would be bad. I'd assume that yearly fee you pay goes to the RIAA, because Apple being a hardware company cares little about software when it is driving their hardware sales.
And people care about some moron congressman tweeting his penis and dumb Sarah Palin. Glad to know the media is focusing on what is important.
Ugh, the point isn't that you trade with silver, the point is that silver is a medium you can use to obtain other currencies.
Google and Microsoft, where are you?
I think the iTunes Match is brilliant, from the RIAA perspective. Think it, you pay $25 (Which probably goes to them) and now, Apple will replace all of your music with (I would assume) DRM'd versions of the music and delete your existing DRM free music. So now, as a music producer, this is AMAZING. Why? Well, you aren't losing money on this because the users already have the songs - BUT, now you are replacing "Free" music that is sharable with DRM'd music that can no longer be pirated. This "theoretically" could be great for them just because it would reduce the shareable MP3 content.
Uh wrong on many fronts. apple takes 30% and Android is probably even worse off, since google makes absolutely no claims to defend people due to the "free" nature of Android.
Apple pretty much has to step in at this point. I suspect they will file an injunction of some sort for this suit. The implications will be bad if Lodsys can continue to rape companies.
A bunch if Bureaucrats realized their budgets would shrink an astonishing amount if they go to the "cloud" - so they opt for "consolidation" which will never happen because everyone in charge of their little fiefdoms won't give up power (and money)
IF and only IF the caps actually CHANGED. As it sits now, AT&T's "Tiered" plans haven't changed in four god damned years. The 250MB bottom tier should be at least 1GB now for transfer.
The real criminal act is they aren't updating what you get, they simply keep the limits static. If they want to adopt this shit business model then they need to keep up with upping the bandwidth limits.
Fuck AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
I went into CS "way back" in 2000, hadn't ever touched a compiler, never written a line of code, but knew I'd enjoy it. First programming class was C, I worked my ass off to learn and figure it out. Before the 1st semester was over, I had picked up a book on OOP (Java) and taught myself OOP and Java over winter break. Came back for CS2 already prepared and ready to go.
You either have the aptitude to learn it or you can go off and get your "Business Information Technology" degree. Do the work or leave, which is what it boils down to.
So, Apple allows you to install any software you want, by giving it the root password... So a user action. Yet, Apple rolls out the App Store on OS X to avoid this issue, and /. lambastes them because they are making the OS less "free" - so which do you want - the ability to totally fuck your computer up - or a guardian angel?
Get a high level position in Congress, White House, any agency and get guaranteed a super high paying lobbyist job. How terrible public service is!
Now you can easily self publish any book you want. What margins do a writer make right now?
From what I gather it is at MOST 15% of the NET profits, so a $25.00 book may only make you as a writer $2 at most after all the "Costs" of selling are added up.
So, if you sell the book yourself through Apple, you get to keep 70% of your profit, doing some simple math that turns out to be $17.50.
Now who is the evil company, publishers who give you $2 on your $25 book or Apple who gives you $17.50?
Hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of legitimate business uses for the iPad. Just because you have a myopic view of them does not negate their use on the enterprise.