One reason is a flat tax, just as sales tax, has a more significant impact on the poor. If the tax rate is 10% and you make $100 a weak, the difference between 100 and 90 is pretty significant. If you make 10,000 a weak, the different between 9000 and 10,000 is far less significant. So, a flat tax is "fair" but only from a certain set of principles.
The wage adjusts accordingly to account for the tax. People become unwilling to work for what was previously $5, which is now $3.75. Ergo, businesses raise pay until they have the workers they need.
Until Bush's tax cuts expire later this year and Obama doesn't renew them and then NOBODY invests in the stock market because the risk just isn't worth it when 35% of your investment gains are taken away.
Capital Gains tax wouldn't even be possible were it not for a liberal interpretation of the "windfall profits" clause, which was written when your neighbor's seed blows into your land, grows, and you are able to harvest it.
So you get taxed on your paycheck, taxed on any money you make in this climate in investments, and then taxed when you spend it.
Most of their time seems to be spent building new releases...little goes into _actual_ development.
When is the last time the OSS community did anything original relating to the GUI? Desktop Compositing? We didn't touch that till Microsoft thought of it. Now everybody wants OpenOffice to have a "Ribbon" too, just like MS Office. There's very little forward thinking; too much replication.
Chromium OS is the development version of Chrome OS which, when released during 2nd half of 2010, is also going to be completely open source.
That's great and all but I'm afraid I'm going to have to say having entered the real world and been working a real job, I was deluding myself into thinking OSS was the way to go.
There needs to be a deadline, set features, and programmers getting paid full to time to write code that they don't want to write, for important things to get done in the OS. I hope Google will provide this? Example would be that mouse-over-button bug that was in bugzilla for 6 years before somebody got the nerve to go unpack the problem and rework the bits of the code that needed to be reworked so that a window with a button in it that was drawn under where the mouse currently was would actually automatically hilight the button and let you click it. Before this guy got the balls go and fix it, it sat there. And bugged the hell out of me for 3 years while I deluded myself into thinking the OSS development model was superior. --Which it is. In a perfect world, where people don't only want to write new, exciting code, and are willing to write legible documentation, as well as code. Until then, Linux's Firefox/Fasterfox still runs dog slow on my quad core 3.5Ghz processor, and so does Gnome, because whatever is down there in the Linux kernel is so darn bloated that even Windows Vista is faster...snappier.
You can mod me troll if you like, I'm just reporting what I've seen. I used to love Linux, and it will always have a special place in my heart, [and I'm not coder] but it's just not fast, no matter what hardware I throw at it.
Here's to hoping having a massive netbook installbase will motivate the OSS crowd to not just tell us to default to XFCE and Fluxbox when we want a faster GUI.
People have said Firefox is multithreaded, and I'm no coder, but I know when a piece of software is using all available resources. Firefox never goes above 25% CPU usage when I open up a new window (which in turn loads about 15 tabs). Maybe the Gecko rendering engine can't render two pages at once. All I know is that the Firefox becomes unusable/unresponsive on my quad core for about 5 seconds while everything loads. Chrome hits much higher CPU usage-- but it doesn't have [true] adblock.
In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii.
Translation: We still have MOUNTAINS of shovel ware to sell!
Why so terribly negative? Yeesh. Next Zelda game with REAL sword tracking motion will be GREAT. Not shovelware. Shovelware is what EA makes. Nintendo does not make shovelware.
How do you stop being a mathematician? (you don't seem to have stopped).
By being forced to graduate from university and getting caught up in politics and law. It must be at least 3 months since I did any proper maths (and the stuff above doesn't count - any suitably well-taught 8 year-old should be able to derive the answer; and it is all on Wikipedia anyway). But still, I guess one never quite recovers from spending 5+ years almost entirely devoted to the subject...
Wish people would stop fussing that college actually makes them learn things outside their field of study. If you get through college and don't understand why they made you take those classes you missed the point of college and need to go back because you still have a LOT more to learn about the world.
Yet, oddly enough, this page places the intentional murder rate in England at 2.03 per 100,000 vs. 5.4 in the U.S. Better, yes, but hardly a factor of 17 better. What accounts for the difference, do you suppose? It seems to me that you've either selected cities (Atlanta and London) that are not representative, or there's some other sort of slight-of-hand going on.
Look... I'm not gun nut, in fact don't even own one even though I'm a Southerner and my family always has. But I don't think blaming murder on guns is helpful. I think it's got a lot more to do with an ineffective social safety net, ineffective policing, and (in the case of places like Atlanta) the foolhardy "war on drugs" that uses drug money to turn inner cities into war zone.
If they couldn't make money selling drugs they would make it robbing you. They don't suddenly go away if you legalize drugs. Humanity is broken.
The purpose of a prison sentence is rehabilitation, not revenge.
You could not be more wrong. The purpose is to deter people from committing those acts in the future against innocent people. The crime is done. The important thing is to make sure others don't think they can still live a peaceful life playing basketball, lifting weights, and watching cable TV if they decide to murder someone they don't like.
Rehabilitation is a joke, criminals laugh at you idealist types. The only thing that will make them stop is force. New York finally gave in to reason and actually gave their police force authority to shoot and that's the only thing that saved the city.
London had 300 knife incidents on the Underground in a week.
Given I've used the Tube nearly every day for the best part of 15 years at all hours of the day and have never seen a single incident, knife-related or not, you are going to have to back that claim up.
I'm not saying London is crime free, far from it, but I've lived here for 16 years and can count the number of things I've seen or even heard of affecting my friends on my fingers.
I must have been feeling generous. I forgot that the headline that summer that I saw was 300 youths that had been caught with knives. The total? Four times that.
I mean seriously, what country is so woos-ified that they don't even allow you to carry knives on your person? We do guns and don't have any trouble with it.
Programming is all about isolating the smallest part of a problem and simplifying it out. Doing proofs is effectively the basis for programming.
Understanding trig and calc is handy for specific projects, but for every single program we write we have to be able to see the problem, to isolate components of the problem, and to simplify them.
-Rick
Only if you have a good proofs teacher. We covered proofs but never had the toolset to prove anything. In programming (I loved Java for this-- wonderful documentation was available online), I have all the tools laid about before me and I can pick and choose the one I need for the job.
I constantly run into people screwing stuff up because they get lost in the logic of stuff like "if this is part of that group but not contained in this set".
This is simple stuff and can be learned on wikipedia. Any brain worth its fluids can figure these out for themselves on wikipedia....
While the psych recommendation sounds insightful, having just taken a survey of it I'm puzzled as to which concepts in particular would apply to UI design.
Personally, I always liked learning the 'harder' thing as that might expose my brain to concepts or ways of thinking that I wasn't already familiar with.
I would like to do the same, but I would always be concerned I'm not completing tasks fast enough, getting done what I could, etc. Any thoughts? I will be entering the workforce soon. I suppose one could simply explain it as becoming more well rounded.
But at the end of the day, we'll have an HD format that we have no reason to move from. Just like the CD was to the cassette player. So at least we can buy with confidence that they won't try to supplant the format any time soon (ever).
Don't worry this is what they're planning... This is also what MetroPCS is planning, they want to deploy LTE ASAP and run everything over the data connection because, for calls at least, it drops their costs by something absurd like 90%. Who knows if it'll have unlimited data, I don't care, it'll probably be 10 or something GB, which will be enough (I frankly don't care if you want to torrent on your phone connection-- I don't want to subsidize that, not now at least;).
The google voice transcription ability varies widely depending on the quality of the audio. When my friend is using the handsfree and letting it fall freely onto her chest, it sounds muffled to me and the text transcription is terrible. Similarly, if her voice cuts out for a second (which T-Mobile does a lot-- even in the middle of a suburban midsized city), it gets confused as well.
However, my friends, who sound clearer to me on the phone, get much better txt transcriptions.
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And a linear application of taxes has a non-linear effect on the populace, because the worth of a dollar to a person rises non-linearly.
Quote of the month.
One reason is a flat tax, just as sales tax, has a more significant impact on the poor. If the tax rate is 10% and you make $100 a weak, the difference between 100 and 90 is pretty significant. If you make 10,000 a weak, the different between 9000 and 10,000 is far less significant. So, a flat tax is "fair" but only from a certain set of principles.
The wage adjusts accordingly to account for the tax. People become unwilling to work for what was previously $5, which is now $3.75. Ergo, businesses raise pay until they have the workers they need.
Until Bush's tax cuts expire later this year and Obama doesn't renew them and then NOBODY invests in the stock market because the risk just isn't worth it when 35% of your investment gains are taken away.
Capital Gains tax wouldn't even be possible were it not for a liberal interpretation of the "windfall profits" clause, which was written when your neighbor's seed blows into your land, grows, and you are able to harvest it.
So you get taxed on your paycheck, taxed on any money you make in this climate in investments, and then taxed when you spend it.
There really aren't any of those irritating bugs in Windows though; nor does using the desktop feel like molasses.
Never happened to me. *And* I still from time to time run Linux on an actual Pentium II laptop (with X11 too).
Maybe you should upgrade your 286 ?
Yes, I plan to update my quad core 286 right away.
Most of their time seems to be spent building new releases...little goes into _actual_ development.
When is the last time the OSS community did anything original relating to the GUI? Desktop Compositing? We didn't touch that till Microsoft thought of it. Now everybody wants OpenOffice to have a "Ribbon" too, just like MS Office.
There's very little forward thinking; too much replication.
There really aren't any of those irritating bugs in Windows though; nor does using the desktop feel like molasses.
It's KDE too, though. Something just...isn't right...with the whole thing.
Chromium OS is the development version of Chrome OS which, when released during 2nd half of 2010, is also going to be completely open source.
That's great and all but I'm afraid I'm going to have to say having entered the real world and been working a real job, I was deluding myself into thinking OSS was the way to go.
There needs to be a deadline, set features, and programmers getting paid full to time to write code that they don't want to write, for important things to get done in the OS. I hope Google will provide this?
Example would be that mouse-over-button bug that was in bugzilla for 6 years before somebody got the nerve to go unpack the problem and rework the bits of the code that needed to be reworked so that a window with a button in it that was drawn under where the mouse currently was would actually automatically hilight the button and let you click it. Before this guy got the balls go and fix it, it sat there. And bugged the hell out of me for 3 years while I deluded myself into thinking the OSS development model was superior.
--Which it is. In a perfect world, where people don't only want to write new, exciting code, and are willing to write legible documentation, as well as code.
Until then, Linux's Firefox/Fasterfox still runs dog slow on my quad core 3.5Ghz processor, and so does Gnome, because whatever is down there in the Linux kernel is so darn bloated that even Windows Vista is faster...snappier.
You can mod me troll if you like, I'm just reporting what I've seen. I used to love Linux, and it will always have a special place in my heart, [and I'm not coder] but it's just not fast, no matter what hardware I throw at it.
Here's to hoping having a massive netbook installbase will motivate the OSS crowd to not just tell us to default to XFCE and Fluxbox when we want a faster GUI.
People have said Firefox is multithreaded, and I'm no coder, but I know when a piece of software is using all available resources.
Firefox never goes above 25% CPU usage when I open up a new window (which in turn loads about 15 tabs). Maybe the Gecko rendering engine can't render two pages at once. All I know is that the Firefox becomes unusable/unresponsive on my quad core for about 5 seconds while everything loads. Chrome hits much higher CPU usage-- but it doesn't have [true] adblock.
In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii.
Translation: We still have MOUNTAINS of shovel ware to sell!
Why so terribly negative? Yeesh. Next Zelda game with REAL sword tracking motion will be GREAT. Not shovelware.
Shovelware is what EA makes.
Nintendo does not make shovelware.
And, as usual, WORKS FOR ME.
And most people, that is.
How do you stop being a mathematician? (you don't seem to have stopped).
By being forced to graduate from university and getting caught up in politics and law. It must be at least 3 months since I did any proper maths (and the stuff above doesn't count - any suitably well-taught 8 year-old should be able to derive the answer; and it is all on Wikipedia anyway). But still, I guess one never quite recovers from spending 5+ years almost entirely devoted to the subject...
Wish people would stop fussing that college actually makes them learn things outside their field of study.
If you get through college and don't understand why they made you take those classes you missed the point of college and need to go back because you still have a LOT more to learn about the world.
Yet, oddly enough, this page places the intentional murder rate in England at 2.03 per 100,000 vs. 5.4 in the U.S. Better, yes, but hardly a factor of 17 better. What accounts for the difference, do you suppose? It seems to me that you've either selected cities (Atlanta and London) that are not representative, or there's some other sort of slight-of-hand going on.
Look... I'm not gun nut, in fact don't even own one even though I'm a Southerner and my family always has. But I don't think blaming murder on guns is helpful. I think it's got a lot more to do with an ineffective social safety net, ineffective policing, and (in the case of places like Atlanta) the foolhardy "war on drugs" that uses drug money to turn inner cities into war zone.
If they couldn't make money selling drugs they would make it robbing you. They don't suddenly go away if you legalize drugs.
Humanity is broken.
The purpose of a prison sentence is rehabilitation, not revenge.
You could not be more wrong. The purpose is to deter people from committing those acts in the future against innocent people. The crime is done. The important thing is to make sure others don't think they can still live a peaceful life playing basketball, lifting weights, and watching cable TV if they decide to murder someone they don't like.
Rehabilitation is a joke, criminals laugh at you idealist types. The only thing that will make them stop is force. New York finally gave in to reason and actually gave their police force authority to shoot and that's the only thing that saved the city.
You're right though, it wasn't within a week; I must have misread that headline.
London had 300 knife incidents on the Underground in a week.
Given I've used the Tube nearly every day for the best part of 15 years at all hours of the day and have never seen a single incident, knife-related or not, you are going to have to back that claim up.
I'm not saying London is crime free, far from it, but I've lived here for 16 years and can count the number of things I've seen or even heard of affecting my friends on my fingers.
Since googling appears to be so difficult for you...
I must have been feeling generous. I forgot that the headline that summer that I saw was 300 youths that had been caught with knives. The total? Four times that.
I mean seriously, what country is so woos-ified that they don't even allow you to carry knives on your person? We do guns and don't have any trouble with it.
London had 300 knife incidents on the Underground in a week.
If you have a concealed carry permit, you are allowed to carry a gun on MARTA in Atlanta.
We have had no gun issues and no knife issues.
Proofs, proofs, then more proofs.
Programming is all about isolating the smallest part of a problem and simplifying it out. Doing proofs is effectively the basis for programming.
Understanding trig and calc is handy for specific projects, but for every single program we write we have to be able to see the problem, to isolate components of the problem, and to simplify them.
-Rick
Only if you have a good proofs teacher.
We covered proofs but never had the toolset to prove anything. In programming (I loved Java for this-- wonderful documentation was available online), I have all the tools laid about before me and I can pick and choose the one I need for the job.
Venn Diagrams. Intersection. Union. AND/OR/NAND/NOR
I constantly run into people screwing stuff up because they get lost in the logic of stuff like "if this is part of that group but not contained in this set".
This is simple stuff and can be learned on wikipedia. Any brain worth its fluids can figure these out for themselves on wikipedia....
The discount window is for overnight loans...the Fed does not let you borrow money from them consistently simply to buy Tbonds...
While the psych recommendation sounds insightful, having just taken a survey of it I'm puzzled as to which concepts in particular would apply to UI design.
Personally, I always liked learning the 'harder' thing as that might expose my brain to concepts or ways of thinking that I wasn't already familiar with.
I would like to do the same, but I would always be concerned I'm not completing tasks fast enough, getting done what I could, etc.
Any thoughts? I will be entering the workforce soon. I suppose one could simply explain it as becoming more well rounded.
It's Sony. They'll do both.
But at the end of the day, we'll have an HD format that we have no reason to move from.
Just like the CD was to the cassette player. So at least we can buy with confidence that they won't try to supplant the format any time soon (ever).
Don't worry this is what they're planning... ;).
This is also what MetroPCS is planning, they want to deploy LTE ASAP and run everything over the data connection because, for calls at least, it drops their costs by something absurd like 90%. Who knows if it'll have unlimited data, I don't care, it'll probably be 10 or something GB, which will be enough (I frankly don't care if you want to torrent on your phone connection-- I don't want to subsidize that, not now at least
The google voice transcription ability varies widely depending on the quality of the audio. When my friend is using the handsfree and letting it fall freely onto her chest, it sounds muffled to me and the text transcription is terrible. Similarly, if her voice cuts out for a second (which T-Mobile does a lot-- even in the middle of a suburban midsized city), it gets confused as well.
However, my friends, who sound clearer to me on the phone, get much better txt transcriptions.