A use case for higher and higher resolutions is mobile/HMD VR. Retina quality for a display 1.5 inches from your eye is something like 32K per eye. Mobile and VR will drive screen technology once TVs have exceeded a certain (rapidly approaching) threshold.
Now, here's some facts: we've been doing this "progressive taxation" thing for quite a while now, at least a few generations or so. Yet the gap between the rich and the poor in the USA has only increased. In fact, what's happening is that the middle class is shrinking, the upper class is staying relatively stable, and the poor are growing.
I absolutely agree with your last statement. But you are misidentifying the cause. We've been doing the progressive taxation thing well since the New Deal, and it worked fairly well until Reagan started drastically lowering taxes. The top marginal tax rate has fallen from 90% to ~36%, it averaged 70% from 1930s-1970s. The widening inequality between uber-rich and poor and the shrinking of the middle class is a direct product of Reaganomics, and was a completely predictable outcome.
As far as I am concerned the two worst financial decisions made by the US government in my lifetime were lowering the top marginal tax rate drastically beginning in the 80s and weakening/shredding the Glass-Steagall act in the 90s. The former started a 20 year trend of rapidly growing income inequality and the latter lead us to the Great Recession within 10 years.
Put the game up for free and run the servers yourself for free if it bothers you so much. That is your freedom, that you have ensured by releasing the code under GPL, and that SM have maintained. These guys are doing nothing wrong, and you would be doing nothing wrong if you competed with them. See RedHat vs CentOS.
1) Rich people need cash and cash equivalent/liquid accounts, too. Besides, there are other federal protections on capital assets, e.g. SIPC.
2) you are quite right, I should have said police & fire are primarily non-federally funded. Property tax does not always form the bulk of many county/city budgets, by the way. Sales tax, occupancy tax (in tourist areas), etc. are at least as important. Sales tax is another example of a highly regressive tax.
3) Oops, I named a tax benefit that disproportionately benefits the rich, and you acknowledged. Naturally, like any wingnut, you moved the bar. Now I need more... How many this time?
4) Ah, so some people have moral failings when making individual decisions, because they seek to maximize their own personal gain at the expense of others. That seems to be the situation you are decrying. How should we address this? By just complaining about it? Or through progressive laws? I guess you fall in the we should just complain about it camp...
5) How many minimum wage jobs don't require literacy? Seriously, you are delusional if you think public education doesn't provide a more capable work force. You didn't ask me to argue that our current public education is the most _efficient_ way to educate the masses, I am not sure it is. I just know that this country would not experience the productivity it does without education that is currently funded by taxes, and productivity benefits the wealthy IN PROPORTION to their capital deployed.
More adults being driven to minimum wage jobs has more to do with the diminishing middle-class, which in turn is the result of regressive tax policies.
1) FDIC insurance on the first $100,000 of their money held at a particular bank. In my experience, few poor people have $100,000 bank accounts.
2) Police & Fire department protection for their McMansions. Once again, not a benefit the non-homeowning poor receive. (yes this is primarily state tax funded, but state taxes are also progressive, and there are federal funds for police & fire in many cases).
3) Military protection for their land/property/business interests. How much would it cost the typical Texas oil baron to hire a private paramilitary force to protect his oil fields from Mexico, if the federal government did not maintain a military.
4) Healthcare benefits of last resort (medicare & medicaid) to all the low-paid peons in your rich person's employ, so your rich person can pay a minimal wage and yet still have employees that aren't so disease-ridden they are non-productive.
5) Public education that educates those same low-paid peons in your rich persons employ.
Do you see the pattern? The amount of benefit you derive from the government provided services scales with the value of your assets. This is not rocket science. In the libertarian wet-dream world, your rich person is still going to be shelling out of pocket for many of the same services, and won't get "wholesale" rates on any of them either (military contractors are expensive, and want pesky things like death benefits for their survivors).
Whether you order from an out-of-state catalog or an out-of-state internet retailer, you owe local sales tax on the purchase, at least in each of the three states I've lived in.
However, the out-of-state business is not obligated to automatically collect it - that's the interstate commerce part. You are supposed to self-declare it. How many people do you suppose keep detailed enough records to calculate this on their state income tax form? Or bother to declare any of it?
Mythtv does not pay royalties to the MPEG LA (licensing authority). This body handles licensing hundreds of the patents that cover MPEG technology, up to and including MPEG-4.
The Series 3 DVR that will come out later this year is "integrated with digital cable". It will use up to 2 CableCARDs to decrypt digital cable from your cable company. So it will be similar in functionality to your current DIRECTV DVR with TiVo, but will be even better because it comes directly from TiVo so you won't be limited in software features by what DIRECTV will allow. http://www.tivolovers.com/252572.html
Just about every interesting CGI script on the web these days talks to "huge, monolothic" database server - think PHP. So much for the "UNIX small command-line tool" approach.
Small command-line tools are appropriate for hacking together text processing filters, but I can't see them being useful for building a multimedia pipeline. If you care about synchronization, then you need in-process and/or shared memory communication, not a unix pipe.
Yep, I think Bush is a lousy debater as well. Just because I disagree with david@LOCArecords does not mean I like Bush, or American nationalism for that matter. To me Bush calls to mind the phrase "the revenge of the C students".
I can't believe you are comparing rocketry videos with using chemical weapons on your own people. When I was in school, you could tell a debate was degenerating when someone made an analogy to Hitler. Today, it is Saddam.
Congratulations on resorting to the last refuge of a desperate debater. Only took you 50 minutes from your first post.
Hmm. In the traditional political and economic system I am familiar with, the conservatives are in FAVOR of market forces, e.g. H1B and employment-at-will. The liberals are against cheap labor, and for protectionism, unions, and guaranteed jobs.
So if you are using bleeding-heart liberal as a derogatory epithet for someone who favors H1B's, I think you are misguided.
Perhaps you are confused by the fact that liberals are general in favor of more LEGAL immigration, which would make it easier for those "darn foreigners" to become LEGAL citizens of the US and hence not require H1B's.
One reason our economy is generally so strong relative to other countries is that companies have the flexibility to hire and layoff as economic times change. Even in this time of distress, our economy is still doing better than most.
Samsung cellphones are of excellent quality. I used to be a Nokia customer, but got sick of poor TDMA coverage, so now I have the CDMA Samsung Uproar. The upcoming PalmOS wireless handheld Samsung SPH-I300 also looks intriguing.
Absolutely standard. And 2 weeks seems like a pitifully small amount. Certainly it would have been higher if they truly felt they had significant legal exposure. If you were in a position to argue "age discrimination", or any kind of harassment, severance++.
There will have to be an exchange rate, because the taxman will have his due. Some exchange rate will have to be declared, and it will be your responsibility to submit taxes to the relevant state and federal authorities.
No different from the fact that you are supposed to submit tax from out-of-state mail order purchases directly to your state, and no different from the taxes levied on barter economies like the many community-issued currencies like IthacaHours: http://www.ithacahours.org
Note if you barter goods you are also responsible for the relevant taxes, for instancing if you "swap" cars.
Fundamentally, TiVo is providing a service. The fact that the first iterations of their product involved a box they put together and designed is so that they can keep the cost to the consumer low by subsidizing the initial hardware purchase, and enforce copyright restrictions, among other reasons. Long term they are not in the business of selling inexpensive mpeg encoders.
ATI probably has the closest to a drop-in, TiVo on a PC offering, the Radeon All-in-wonder.
It includes an interactive program guide, record on demand, and can pause live tv.
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_rade on/index.html
A company called gemstar has been vigorously enforcing their patents on electronic program guides, which is why it is doubtful you will see a completely freeware version of an interactive program guide service anytime soon.
In the first- and second-year CS courses I TAed
(waaaaay back in the Dark Ages when Pascal was standard), the reasons we specified the environment included:
1) Availability of lab resources. Often times the computer lab is only going to have one type of machine with a limited selection of development environments for the various classes. Today this is less of an issue, because most students will have their own computers (further increasing their desire to use a custom platform).
2) Compatibility. Besides basic issues with the compiler and standard libraries, we often provided completely or partially implemented code in the course of assignments, and could only afford to make sure that it worked on the specified platform. Imagine if you were a student trying to get an assignment working and discovered there was a bug in the code provided with the assignment when compiled in your environment. Clearly we had to define this
behavior as "at your own risk".
3) Proprietary native interfaces. In the very introductory class, we were using Pascal on Macs, and provided native widget libraries so the students could create more visually interesting programs than println('hello world'). Today of course there are cross-platform alternatives.
4) Mechanical concerns. As others have pointed out, testing submitted programs generally involves both compiling (to make sure there are no warnings) and executing them to evaluate that the output is correct. In classes of up to 200 students, no way can you be prepared to do that on 4 systems.
5) Support. TAs could not necessarily be expected to help with compiler or dev environment issues for more than one platform.
Today students have the luxury of a well standardized C++, that allows you to write compliant code that will compile under g++,
msvc++, or one of the edison design group
based compilers, not to mention Java. Nonetheless, in the context of a particular course I would still expect to see a pretty standardized configuration designated as the target platform for assignments.
That being said, advanced students could and
can still always follow whatever development process they wanted "at their own risk". Just don't expect your TA to bail you out if you run in to trouble!
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A good compiler developer would run you about $125,000/yr + the usual overhead (say another 75K). X 2 would be $400,000/year. There is a reason AMD does not maintain an in-house compiler team.
Please provide a reference to the PSX2 running linux. AFAIK, Sony has a playstation2 development workstation (cost ~ $20,000) that runs linux, but that is for game developers, not end-users. I have seen no information to the effect that end-users will be able to "insert a linux CD" and boot linux, but would love to see it.
In a similar vein, are you sure GCC is being ported TO the PSX2, or is just being modified to cross-compile for the Emotion Engine. Please provide a reference.
Epic already has UT running in "barely working" mode. See http://unreal.epicgames.com/.
AFAIK, the Graphics Synthesizer has 4MB for framebuffer/texture memory, which will ultimately limit the potential output resolution.
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A use case for higher and higher resolutions is mobile/HMD VR. Retina quality for a display 1.5 inches from your eye is something like 32K per eye. Mobile and VR will drive screen technology once TVs have exceeded a certain (rapidly approaching) threshold.
Now, here's some facts: we've been doing this "progressive taxation" thing for quite a while now, at least a few generations or so. Yet the gap between the rich and the poor in the USA has only increased. In fact, what's happening is that the middle class is shrinking, the upper class is staying relatively stable, and the poor are growing.
I absolutely agree with your last statement. But you are misidentifying the cause. We've been doing the progressive taxation thing well since the New Deal, and it worked fairly well until Reagan started drastically lowering taxes. The top marginal tax rate has fallen from 90% to ~36%, it averaged 70% from 1930s-1970s. The widening inequality between uber-rich and poor and the shrinking of the middle class is a direct product of Reaganomics, and was a completely predictable outcome.
As far as I am concerned the two worst financial decisions made by the US government in my lifetime were lowering the top marginal tax rate drastically beginning in the 80s and weakening/shredding the Glass-Steagall act in the 90s. The former started a 20 year trend of rapidly growing income inequality and the latter lead us to the Great Recession within 10 years.
Put the game up for free and run the servers yourself for free if it bothers you so much. That is your freedom, that you have ensured by releasing the code under GPL, and that SM have maintained. These guys are doing nothing wrong, and you would be doing nothing wrong if you competed with them. See RedHat vs CentOS.
1) Rich people need cash and cash equivalent/liquid accounts, too. Besides, there are other federal protections on capital assets, e.g. SIPC.
2) you are quite right, I should have said police & fire are primarily non-federally funded. Property tax does not always form the bulk of many county/city budgets, by the way. Sales tax, occupancy tax (in tourist areas), etc. are at least as important. Sales tax is another example of a highly regressive tax.
3) Oops, I named a tax benefit that disproportionately benefits the rich, and you acknowledged. Naturally, like any wingnut, you moved the bar. Now I need more... How many this time?
4) Ah, so some people have moral failings when making individual decisions, because they seek to maximize their own personal gain at the expense of others. That seems to be the situation you are decrying. How should we address this? By just complaining about it? Or through progressive laws? I guess you fall in the we should just complain about it camp...
5) How many minimum wage jobs don't require literacy? Seriously, you are delusional if you think public education doesn't provide a more capable work force. You didn't ask me to argue that our current public education is the most _efficient_ way to educate the masses, I am not sure it is. I just know that this country would not experience the productivity it does without education that is currently funded by taxes, and productivity benefits the wealthy IN PROPORTION to their capital deployed.
More adults being driven to minimum wage jobs has more to do with the diminishing middle-class, which in turn is the result of regressive tax policies.
Tax benefits for the rich
1) FDIC insurance on the first $100,000 of their money held at a particular bank. In my experience, few poor people have $100,000 bank accounts.
2) Police & Fire department protection for their McMansions. Once again, not a benefit the non-homeowning poor receive. (yes this is primarily state tax funded, but state taxes are also progressive, and there are federal funds for police & fire in many cases).
3) Military protection for their land/property/business interests. How much would it cost the typical Texas oil baron to hire a private paramilitary force to protect his oil fields from Mexico, if the federal government did not maintain a military.
4) Healthcare benefits of last resort (medicare & medicaid) to all the low-paid peons in your rich person's employ, so your rich person can pay a minimal wage and yet still have employees that aren't so disease-ridden they are non-productive.
5) Public education that educates those same low-paid peons in your rich persons employ.
Do you see the pattern? The amount of benefit you derive from the government provided services scales with the value of your assets. This is not rocket science. In the libertarian wet-dream world, your rich person is still going to be shelling out of pocket for many of the same services, and won't get "wholesale" rates on any of them either (military contractors are expensive, and want pesky things like death benefits for their survivors).
If you didn't form a group and go through an instance you missed about 90% of the appeal of WoW.
Granted, if you start a character on a random server where you don't know anyone it is harder to get started.
Ask one of the people who told you the game was great what server they play on and join it. Ask if they will show you the ropes.
Whether you order from an out-of-state catalog or an out-of-state internet retailer, you owe local sales tax on the purchase, at least in each of the three states I've lived in.
However, the out-of-state business is not obligated to automatically collect it - that's the interstate commerce part. You are supposed to self-declare it. How many people do you suppose keep detailed enough records to calculate this on their state income tax form? Or bother to declare any of it?
This is not FUD, I'm sorry to say.
Mythtv does not pay royalties to the MPEG LA (licensing authority). This body handles licensing hundreds of the patents that cover MPEG technology, up to and including MPEG-4.
Go to this page and peruse the licensee list: http://www.mpegla.com/m2/m2-licensees.cfm
Find mythtv on the list or acknowledge myth violates the hundreds of patents listed here: http://www.mpegla.com/m2/m2-patentlist.cfm
The patent litigated here was not the patent TiVo acquired, but one of their own.
So your post is completely inaccurate. On the plus side, you only capitalized one word.
The Series 3 DVR that will come out later this year is "integrated with digital cable". It will use up to 2 CableCARDs to decrypt digital cable from your cable company. So it will be similar in functionality to your current DIRECTV DVR with TiVo, but will be even better because it comes directly from TiVo so you won't be limited in software features by what DIRECTV will allow. http://www.tivolovers.com/252572.html
Ahah! You went to Cornell.
Just about every interesting CGI script on the web these days talks to "huge, monolothic" database server - think PHP. So much for the "UNIX small command-line tool" approach.
Small command-line tools are appropriate for hacking together text processing filters, but I can't see them being useful for building a multimedia pipeline. If you care about synchronization, then you need in-process and/or shared memory communication, not a unix pipe.
Yep, I think Bush is a lousy debater as well. Just because I disagree with david@LOCArecords does not mean I like Bush, or American nationalism for that matter. To me Bush calls to mind the phrase "the revenge of the C students".
I can't believe you are comparing rocketry videos with using chemical weapons on your own people. When I was in school, you could tell a debate was degenerating when someone made an analogy to Hitler. Today, it is Saddam.
Congratulations on resorting to the last refuge of a desperate debater. Only took you 50 minutes from your first post.
Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give away your money to charity than to sell electronica, like at locarecords.com?
Perhaps we should stop buying music. Especially electronica. All those expensive synthesizers.
How can anybody buy or sell entertainment when the children are starving?
You did get an eyeball going to your site - was that the purpose of this troll?
Hmm. In the traditional political and economic system I am familiar with, the conservatives are in FAVOR of market forces, e.g. H1B and employment-at-will. The liberals are against cheap labor, and for protectionism, unions, and guaranteed jobs.
So if you are using bleeding-heart liberal as a derogatory epithet for someone who favors H1B's, I think you are misguided.
Perhaps you are confused by the fact that liberals are general in favor of more LEGAL immigration, which would make it easier for those "darn foreigners" to become LEGAL citizens of the US and hence not require H1B's.
One reason our economy is generally so strong relative to other countries is that companies have the flexibility to hire and layoff as economic times change. Even in this time of distress, our economy is still doing better than most.
Samsung cellphones are of excellent quality. I used to be a Nokia customer, but got sick of poor TDMA coverage, so now I have the CDMA Samsung Uproar. The upcoming PalmOS wireless handheld Samsung SPH-I300 also looks intriguing.
Absolutely standard. And 2 weeks seems like a pitifully small amount. Certainly it would have been higher if they truly felt they had significant legal exposure. If you were in a position to argue "age discrimination", or any kind of harassment, severance++.
There will have to be an exchange rate, because the taxman will have his due. Some exchange rate will have to be declared, and it will be your responsibility to submit taxes to the relevant state and federal authorities.
No different from the fact that you are supposed to submit tax from out-of-state mail order purchases directly to your state, and no different from the taxes levied on barter economies like the many community-issued currencies like IthacaHours: http://www.ithacahours.org
Note if you barter goods you are also responsible for the relevant taxes, for instancing if you "swap" cars.
Microsoft has documented the process they use to automatically allocate an ipv4 address, and suggested it as an internet-draft (not quite rfc):
d hc-ipv4-autoconfig-05.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-
They also include a reference to the draft at the UPNP (universal plug and play) site
http://www.upnp.org
The only web browser that does this except for the most popular web browser on Earth, IE.
Fundamentally, TiVo is providing a service. The fact that the first iterations of their product involved a box they put together and designed is so that they can keep the cost to the consumer low by subsidizing the initial hardware purchase, and enforce copyright restrictions, among other reasons. Long term they are not in the business of selling inexpensive mpeg encoders.
e on/index.html
ATI probably has the closest to a drop-in, TiVo on a PC offering, the Radeon All-in-wonder.
It includes an interactive program guide, record on demand, and can pause live tv.
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_rad
A company called gemstar has been vigorously enforcing their patents on electronic program guides, which is why it is doubtful you will see a completely freeware version of an interactive program guide service anytime soon.
In the first- and second-year CS courses I TAed
(waaaaay back in the Dark Ages when Pascal was standard), the reasons we specified the environment included:
1) Availability of lab resources. Often times the computer lab is only going to have one type of machine with a limited selection of development environments for the various classes. Today this is less of an issue, because most students will have their own computers (further increasing their desire to use a custom platform).
2) Compatibility. Besides basic issues with the compiler and standard libraries, we often provided completely or partially implemented code in the course of assignments, and could only afford to make sure that it worked on the specified platform. Imagine if you were a student trying to get an assignment working and discovered there was a bug in the code provided with the assignment when compiled in your environment. Clearly we had to define this
behavior as "at your own risk".
3) Proprietary native interfaces. In the very introductory class, we were using Pascal on Macs, and provided native widget libraries so the students could create more visually interesting programs than println('hello world'). Today of course there are cross-platform alternatives.
4) Mechanical concerns. As others have pointed out, testing submitted programs generally involves both compiling (to make sure there are no warnings) and executing them to evaluate that the output is correct. In classes of up to 200 students, no way can you be prepared to do that on 4 systems.
5) Support. TAs could not necessarily be expected to help with compiler or dev environment issues for more than one platform.
Today students have the luxury of a well standardized C++, that allows you to write compliant code that will compile under g++,
msvc++, or one of the edison design group
based compilers, not to mention Java. Nonetheless, in the context of a particular course I would still expect to see a pretty standardized configuration designated as the target platform for assignments.
That being said, advanced students could and
can still always follow whatever development process they wanted "at their own risk". Just don't expect your TA to bail you out if you run in to trouble!
A good compiler developer would run you about $125,000/yr + the usual overhead (say another 75K). X 2 would be $400,000/year. There is a reason AMD does not maintain an in-house compiler team.
Request clarification of clarification.
Please provide a reference to the PSX2 running
linux. AFAIK, Sony has a playstation2 development
workstation (cost ~ $20,000) that runs linux,
but that is for game developers, not end-users.
I have seen no information to the effect that
end-users will be able to "insert a linux CD" and
boot linux, but would love to see it.
In a similar vein, are you sure GCC is being
ported TO the PSX2, or is just being modified
to cross-compile for the Emotion Engine.
Please provide a reference.
Epic already has UT running in "barely working"
mode. See http://unreal.epicgames.com/.
AFAIK, the Graphics Synthesizer has 4MB for framebuffer/texture memory, which will ultimately limit the potential output resolution.