What's even more weird, when I called on the call box on the side of the highway because Google navigator had totally screwed up and was giving me half-hour old data, I had to tell the person I was talking to where I was. He told me to tell him the numbers listed on the box (at night with no street lights, naturally). How could they not even know what box I was calling from? So, they know exactly where you are if you call from a cell phone, but not from a call box? Seems like they should just put cell phones in the call boxes then!
Smart move! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Blue Screen of Death", doesn't it? Doesn't the Windows license specifically say it shouldn't be used for nuclear plants?
But couldn't a big part of the problem be that car companies were allowed to do their own fuel economy tests in the first place? Wouldn't it have been smarted to require use of a third-party testing organization, you know, the same way EVERYTHING ELSE is regulated? For example, RF interference, we don't just do the test ourselves, we have to take the equipment out to a certified testing lab. (They do take our word for it that the equipment we give them is essentially the same thing we will ship to customers.)
It is wrong if you're getting paid for a job you are quite obviously unqualified for because you are qualified to to a different kind of job on the decision maker. Yes, the remark was sexist, but sleeping with someone for a job does a LOT more damage to women in the workplace than a joke among friends does.
I loved the mechanical keyboard in my G1. What people don't realize is that typing on a touch screen requires watching the screen, whereas you can touch type without looking on a mechanical keyboard.
It's called "mature technology". I bought a Galaxy S7, and now, it's not innovative. It just combines the best features of the S5 and the S6. The fingerprint scanner is several orders of magnitude better than my old S5. My only complaint is they left out the infrared blaster, so I can't use it as a remote control for my TV. There are other technologies they could add, but smartphones are too expensive already for something people are going to replace every two years.
When I worked at Intel, one of our junior programmers joked about trying to hire a cute blond programmer when he was interviewing recruits, which a female contractor immediately started whining about being sexist. Of course, she was the one who was (literally) sleeping with her boss from the contracting firm, who also worked with us.
Carl Sagan smoked a lot of dope. I don't know about Tyson. I've been saying for years that the universe as we know it behaves more like a simulation than what we would expect from a "real" universe, ever since someone told me that space and time are inherently quantized. In a real universe, all positions in space and time should be equally possible. The problem is, if it's a good enough simulation, does it make any difference? Unless we can discover flaws in the simulation that we can exploit, it doesn't real make any difference.
There's an app for that... it's called Fandango. Movie listed supported by the hope that somebody will actually buy tickets through them. My daughter's friend bought an e-ticket, she just needed to show it at the door on her cell phone... guess what, there's no cell phone reception at the ticket taker station in the theater!
You just need to understand how theaters work: there is guaranteed to be 20 minutes of previews before every movie, meaning that if the theater says the movie begins at 6pm, you should walk into the theater and find a seat slightly before 6:20; you will never miss any of the actual movie. When they start inserting advertisements in the middle of the movie like television does, then I'll get upset.
Does it have any detectable connection to the real world? You understand the only real skill advertising producers need is the skill to convince businesses to pay them to make advertising; whether or not it makes the actual consumers more likely to buy is irrelevant.
Apple doesn't make the rules, but they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to use the rules to maximum net profits. If you don't think Apple is paying enough, change the rules to make all companies pay more, e.g. by eliminating R&D expense deductions.
What Woz is trying to say is that taxes should be more progressive; a lot of rich people agree with him on this. Probably the first step would be to go to flatter and lower tax rates, but eliminate ANY deductions (even for mortgage interest). For personal income, any income up to the poverty line should be tax free, you only get taxed on the amount your income exceeds the poverty level by. Both conservatives and liberals are right about some things, but conservatives seem to have a better grasp of basic economics, hence flat tax proposals come from the conservative side. "Fair" is a pretty arbitrary standard; what is fair or not tends to get decided by those in a position to finance elections.
How about we raise the minimum wage to $100/hour and make everybody in the country rich too, while we're at it? Revenue to provide services needs to come from somewhere. Our current system appears to be built on the assumption that tax revenue should all come from personal income and value added (sales) tax, since actually taxing multinational corporations just makes them declare all their profits in another country with a lower tax rate. Who should be taxed and at what rate is a debate we need to have, but solutions should be based on evidence, not ideology or (as in the case of many candidates) bribery.
The problem with forcing multinationals to pay more taxes on the profits they make in the US is they will simply sell all their products to a division in the country with the lowest tax rates at cost, do all the mark-up there, then sell them back at cost to the US division. No profits on the books in the US means they still pay zero in US taxes. With digital media, it's even easier, since bits can be shipped anywhere in the world instantaneously. Before you raise the tax rates, you need to fix the tax laws.
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I call that a "porn web site thumbnail".
Only for the diesel power plants...
What's even more weird, when I called on the call box on the side of the highway because Google navigator had totally screwed up and was giving me half-hour old data, I had to tell the person I was talking to where I was. He told me to tell him the numbers listed on the box (at night with no street lights, naturally). How could they not even know what box I was calling from? So, they know exactly where you are if you call from a cell phone, but not from a call box? Seems like they should just put cell phones in the call boxes then!
Smart move! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Blue Screen of Death", doesn't it? Doesn't the Windows license specifically say it shouldn't be used for nuclear plants?
But couldn't a big part of the problem be that car companies were allowed to do their own fuel economy tests in the first place? Wouldn't it have been smarted to require use of a third-party testing organization, you know, the same way EVERYTHING ELSE is regulated? For example, RF interference, we don't just do the test ourselves, we have to take the equipment out to a certified testing lab. (They do take our word for it that the equipment we give them is essentially the same thing we will ship to customers.)
I am forced to use Firefox at HP, as in don't have software install privilege on my Linux box. Trust me, if I could install Chrome, I would!
How about if BOTH the people still using Thunderbird split the maintenance chores between the two of them?
It is wrong if you're getting paid for a job you are quite obviously unqualified for because you are qualified to to a different kind of job on the decision maker. Yes, the remark was sexist, but sleeping with someone for a job does a LOT more damage to women in the workplace than a joke among friends does.
I loved the mechanical keyboard in my G1. What people don't realize is that typing on a touch screen requires watching the screen, whereas you can touch type without looking on a mechanical keyboard.
It's called "mature technology". I bought a Galaxy S7, and now, it's not innovative. It just combines the best features of the S5 and the S6. The fingerprint scanner is several orders of magnitude better than my old S5. My only complaint is they left out the infrared blaster, so I can't use it as a remote control for my TV. There are other technologies they could add, but smartphones are too expensive already for something people are going to replace every two years.
When I worked at Intel, one of our junior programmers joked about trying to hire a cute blond programmer when he was interviewing recruits, which a female contractor immediately started whining about being sexist. Of course, she was the one who was (literally) sleeping with her boss from the contracting firm, who also worked with us.
And a half-dozen confused sword-carrying nerds.
They didn't delete any comments, that was just a flaw in the simulation!
Carl Sagan smoked a lot of dope. I don't know about Tyson. I've been saying for years that the universe as we know it behaves more like a simulation than what we would expect from a "real" universe, ever since someone told me that space and time are inherently quantized. In a real universe, all positions in space and time should be equally possible. The problem is, if it's a good enough simulation, does it make any difference? Unless we can discover flaws in the simulation that we can exploit, it doesn't real make any difference.
That should make the movies cheaper to produce too; I figure at least 20% of the $100 million budget for most new films is earmarked for drugs...
There's an app for that... it's called Fandango. Movie listed supported by the hope that somebody will actually buy tickets through them. My daughter's friend bought an e-ticket, she just needed to show it at the door on her cell phone... guess what, there's no cell phone reception at the ticket taker station in the theater!
You just need to understand how theaters work: there is guaranteed to be 20 minutes of previews before every movie, meaning that if the theater says the movie begins at 6pm, you should walk into the theater and find a seat slightly before 6:20; you will never miss any of the actual movie. When they start inserting advertisements in the middle of the movie like television does, then I'll get upset.
Does it have any detectable connection to the real world? You understand the only real skill advertising producers need is the skill to convince businesses to pay them to make advertising; whether or not it makes the actual consumers more likely to buy is irrelevant.
Apple doesn't make the rules, but they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to use the rules to maximum net profits. If you don't think Apple is paying enough, change the rules to make all companies pay more, e.g. by eliminating R&D expense deductions.
Is it contagious?
What Woz is trying to say is that taxes should be more progressive; a lot of rich people agree with him on this. Probably the first step would be to go to flatter and lower tax rates, but eliminate ANY deductions (even for mortgage interest). For personal income, any income up to the poverty line should be tax free, you only get taxed on the amount your income exceeds the poverty level by. Both conservatives and liberals are right about some things, but conservatives seem to have a better grasp of basic economics, hence flat tax proposals come from the conservative side. "Fair" is a pretty arbitrary standard; what is fair or not tends to get decided by those in a position to finance elections.
How about we raise the minimum wage to $100/hour and make everybody in the country rich too, while we're at it? Revenue to provide services needs to come from somewhere. Our current system appears to be built on the assumption that tax revenue should all come from personal income and value added (sales) tax, since actually taxing multinational corporations just makes them declare all their profits in another country with a lower tax rate. Who should be taxed and at what rate is a debate we need to have, but solutions should be based on evidence, not ideology or (as in the case of many candidates) bribery.
The problem with forcing multinationals to pay more taxes on the profits they make in the US is they will simply sell all their products to a division in the country with the lowest tax rates at cost, do all the mark-up there, then sell them back at cost to the US division. No profits on the books in the US means they still pay zero in US taxes. With digital media, it's even easier, since bits can be shipped anywhere in the world instantaneously. Before you raise the tax rates, you need to fix the tax laws.
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