Not true. A PERSON has to pay 13% to Medicare. The IRS sweetened the deal by altering salary rules so that the PERSON only has to pay 6.5%, and the corporation/employer pays the other 6.5%, but the PERSON never knows, so never knows how much they could have been paid, but weren't. I pay differently if I'm W2 or 1099. Just the grand plan to ensure the unwashed masses pay at least some of their taxes. Witholding is the other.
That makes sense. It's like allowing people to play paintball in a mall. Innocent bystanders can and will get hurt.
Nerf? I could see a case, someone getting knocked down a flight of stairs, broken arms, hands, sprains. It's like letting people play football in the hallways. Why not, right?
I remember hearing this when I was in high-school (early 90's). I think it's an urban legend because and excuse that it's a shitty mess to clean up is pretty lame, but because a kid got shot, it's pretty scary.
Yeah, I know. I have one. Pioneer Inno. When I don't have reception problems (line of sight, you know what that is, right?) my XMradio is superior to FM in audio quality. Maybe not HD radio, but I don't have one of those to compare to.
If you're listening to XM radio on a decent home theater setup with XM-direct, then yes, it's as good or better than regular FM (my ears can't tell). But if you listen to it over an FM rebroadcast in car, then yeah, it's worse. Duh.
Walmart could help out it's smaller vendors (like my father) but buying a giant license of EDI software and giving it to it's clients. When a smalltime vendor has to spend $2-10K a year to keep talking to Wal*Mart, it eats into profits. I'm not saying it's not a good thing, but it hurts the mom and pops who sometimes create jobs for other people. They have a HUGE web infrastructure for managing the EDI relationship, but they force you to use EDI software rather than straight web-interface work. It might be more work for the vendor, but possibly more automatable (think webservices).
I long for the day I can kick Gentran to the curb. It's nice, but it's not necessary for a small mom-and-pop (unless you WANT to sell to WalMart).
Are you kidding? With all the truck drivers looking for backhauls or jobs just to keep making their truck payments or make up deadhead fuel costs, those CDs wouldn't sit for minute longer than it'd take to call a freight broker.
Strikes only work if you constitute hard to replace talent. If you have a simple job, you can get your ass replaced right quick.
No sir, this is profiteering, because that's how it's always worked, and how they want it to always work in the future. When I bought my first CD it cost me $13.00. They cost me $13-$24 now. I can buy a 1000 pack of CDRs for $100. WTF? It's certainly NOT media cost.
Why, WHY has no one invented a battery-backed PSU? Why? A simple interface to the system to put it into sleep mode or hibernate when the power goes out and trickle power to keep the memory alive? Why!? I once had the ears of a Veep at APC, who liked the idea... I guess I just can't see the business case.:-/ maybe now we have one? Keeping RAM alive!
I bought a new Compaq C712NR with Vista on it this winter, and although I liked where Microsoft was going with the interface, it was a dog, even with all the crapware removed/disabled with 1GB. So I upgraded to 2GB, and noticed absolutely no change whatsoever. Apps took the same amount of time to load, Vista took 90 seconds to boot to usable condition on powerup.
So I downgraded to XP. And have a functional desktop in 30 seconds from poweron. I run VMware server with three VMs, Openoffice and Firefox 3. And free RAM to spare.
Vista was NOT a major improvement over XP, but perhaps the next generation of 4G laptops and computers will prove me wrong.
There's never been (except perhaps odd systems) atomic file IO because it's never been needed/not optimized for the "general use case." If RAM == DISK became the norm, I'd imagine you'd find that you could easily introduce multi-unit atomicity into FileIO as memory.
People have done it with OODB's for years (objectstore, etc), and that's without native OS and compiler support for it.
Barely. The big busts started around New Years, 2000. It was going full-swing by end of year. The worst didn't really hit until 2001 and 9/11 pushed the whole house of cards over completely.
In ways, as much as I despise some of the Microsoft does and the idiotic decisions I think they make on my behalf, VB automation is one of the best tools they've give me, well-tested (in most cases) components that I can piece together to build applications and tools with.
It's component architecture at it's best, in the languages I need to use, but alas, without the portability I need... It's 95% of the way there; there's hope.Net closes the gap, but I'm not all that familiar with it yet.
Last season ended with Tigh, Chief, Football-dude and one other person (Dee?) in a room all looking at each other (after hearing ghost music for two episodes) all suspecting their Cylons, and tigh saying something to the effect of "Oh Hell No" .
For a permanent member of the UN Security council to be convicted of acts of terrorism and not show up in even a rudimentary google search shocks me...
The SX issue could have been entirely due to yeild. Making 486DX-33 parts on a die, only maybe 10% of them will run at that speed. In some, the fp unit will be broken, but can still run at 33mhz, so you brand it a 486SX-33. In some, it won't even run at 33mhz, so you sell as 486SX-25 or 486SX-16. They still do it today, but you'll never see another general purpose CPU ever sold without a working fp-unit. Too many businesses running excel and too many gamers who depend on them.
I've read 1984... several times in fact. One of the largest themes of the novel was living in a surveillance society, not private, but government mandated. Each TV was both a publisher and a recorder of what was before it. The other big theme was people betraying those who expressed concepts against INGSOC.
This is pretty damn contemporary with 1984, think.
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Not true. A PERSON has to pay 13% to Medicare. The IRS sweetened the deal by altering salary rules so that the PERSON only has to pay 6.5%, and the corporation/employer pays the other 6.5%, but the PERSON never knows, so never knows how much they could have been paid, but weren't. I pay differently if I'm W2 or 1099. Just the grand plan to ensure the unwashed masses pay at least some of their taxes. Witholding is the other.
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Pretty smart if you ask me.
I'd give everyone worth over a billion dollars lifetime tax amnesty, just out of spite!
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And they built those Mega empires on nothing? No infrastructure, no interstates, no railroads, no canals?
Many of which were paid for by government sponsorship, either federal, local or state.
All of whom would have nothing if not for ALL of those bloodsuckers.
Grumble Grumble... steve balmer... grumble grumble...
That makes sense. It's like allowing people to play paintball in a mall. Innocent bystanders can and will get hurt.
Nerf? I could see a case, someone getting knocked down a flight of stairs, broken arms, hands, sprains. It's like letting people play football in the hallways. Why not, right?
I remember hearing this when I was in high-school (early 90's). I think it's an urban legend because and excuse that it's a shitty mess to clean up is pretty lame, but because a kid got shot, it's pretty scary.
Cause of death was asphyxiation from the victim laughing too hard, he swallowed his tongue.
And no less than three times in the span of a century, look how well THAT'S turned out.
Yeah, I know. I have one. Pioneer Inno. When I don't have reception problems (line of sight, you know what that is, right?) my XMradio is superior to FM in audio quality. Maybe not HD radio, but I don't have one of those to compare to.
If you're listening to XM radio on a decent home theater setup with XM-direct, then yes, it's as good or better than regular FM (my ears can't tell). But if you listen to it over an FM rebroadcast in car, then yeah, it's worse. Duh.
Walmart could help out it's smaller vendors (like my father) but buying a giant license of EDI software and giving it to it's clients. When a smalltime vendor has to spend $2-10K a year to keep talking to Wal*Mart, it eats into profits. I'm not saying it's not a good thing, but it hurts the mom and pops who sometimes create jobs for other people. They have a HUGE web infrastructure for managing the EDI relationship, but they force you to use EDI software rather than straight web-interface work. It might be more work for the vendor, but possibly more automatable (think webservices).
I long for the day I can kick Gentran to the curb. It's nice, but it's not necessary for a small mom-and-pop (unless you WANT to sell to WalMart).
Are you kidding? With all the truck drivers looking for backhauls or jobs just to keep making their truck payments or make up deadhead fuel costs, those CDs wouldn't sit for minute longer than it'd take to call a freight broker.
Strikes only work if you constitute hard to replace talent. If you have a simple job, you can get your ass replaced right quick.
No sir, this is profiteering, because that's how it's always worked, and how they want it to always work in the future. When I bought my first CD it cost me $13.00. They cost me $13-$24 now. I can buy a 1000 pack of CDRs for $100. WTF? It's certainly NOT media cost.
Which is why I *HATE* Steam...
:(
And I'm going to hate the EA downloader when it turns pimptacular next year.
Huh? SGI has been beaten down, but it is far from dead.
Why, WHY has no one invented a battery-backed PSU? Why? A simple interface to the system to put it into sleep mode or hibernate when the power goes out and trickle power to keep the memory alive? Why!? I once had the ears of a Veep at APC, who liked the idea... I guess I just can't see the business case. :-/ maybe now we have one? Keeping RAM alive!
I bought a new Compaq C712NR with Vista on it this winter, and although I liked where Microsoft was going with the interface, it was a dog, even with all the crapware removed/disabled with 1GB. So I upgraded to 2GB, and noticed absolutely no change whatsoever. Apps took the same amount of time to load, Vista took 90 seconds to boot to usable condition on powerup.
So I downgraded to XP. And have a functional desktop in 30 seconds from poweron. I run VMware server with three VMs, Openoffice and Firefox 3. And free RAM to spare.
Vista was NOT a major improvement over XP, but perhaps the next generation of 4G laptops and computers will prove me wrong.
Oh, like the WindowsXP bug that won't let you hibernate if you have 2GB of RAM in your laptop?
Thankfully there's a hotfix for that...
There's never been (except perhaps odd systems) atomic file IO because it's never been needed/not optimized for the "general use case." If RAM == DISK became the norm, I'd imagine you'd find that you could easily introduce multi-unit atomicity into FileIO as memory.
People have done it with OODB's for years (objectstore, etc), and that's without native OS and compiler support for it.
Barely. The big busts started around New Years, 2000. It was going full-swing by end of year. The worst didn't really hit until 2001 and 9/11 pushed the whole house of cards over completely.
In ways, as much as I despise some of the Microsoft does and the idiotic decisions I think they make on my behalf, VB automation is one of the best tools they've give me, well-tested (in most cases) components that I can piece together to build applications and tools with.
.Net closes the gap, but I'm not all that familiar with it yet.
It's component architecture at it's best, in the languages I need to use, but alas, without the portability I need... It's 95% of the way there; there's hope
Last season ended with Tigh, Chief, Football-dude and one other person (Dee?) in a room all looking at each other (after hearing ghost music for two episodes) all suspecting their Cylons, and tigh saying something to the effect of "Oh Hell No" .
My vague memory...
Ahem.
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For a permanent member of the UN Security council to be convicted of acts of terrorism and not show up in even a rudimentary google search shocks me...
But I'm willing to be educated and proven wrong.
The SX issue could have been entirely due to yeild. Making 486DX-33 parts on a die, only maybe 10% of them will run at that speed. In some, the fp unit will be broken, but can still run at 33mhz, so you brand it a 486SX-33. In some, it won't even run at 33mhz, so you sell as 486SX-25 or 486SX-16. They still do it today, but you'll never see another general purpose CPU ever sold without a working fp-unit. Too many businesses running excel and too many gamers who depend on them.
I've read 1984... several times in fact. One of the largest themes of the novel was living in a surveillance society, not private, but government mandated. Each TV was both a publisher and a recorder of what was before it. The other big theme was people betraying those who expressed concepts against INGSOC.
This is pretty damn contemporary with 1984, think.
I've always believed that if a criminal served their time, not just on parole, they should get their rights back.
Perhaps it straightens out sentence length, murderers will never get out, people have chance to learn from their mistakes...
We clear records for minors, why not adults...
Repeat offenders, well, California has that answer for that.
I wish I had a mod-point for you. You make an excellent counter argument to the anti-DNA-records keeping.