Nobody said anything about anyone gay. Wait, you don't think a man acting effeminately and a man being homosexual are the same thing, do you? Talk about stereotypes...
Crybabying about low corporate taxes is fashionable, but doesn't really hold up to reason. It's just a way for certain types of people to rouse the rabble about how the "fat cats" (be they fat cat Washington politicians, fat cat lawyers, fat cat CEOs, fat cat top-hat wearing bankers with monocles, you name it) are pulling one over on Joe American. What's funny is we're soon approaching the point of no return where on average Joe American pays no net taxes, so it's hard to imagine the kind of contortions you'd have to go through to whine about corporate taxation then.
Anyway, corporations don't realize profits - people do. And corporations are not people, not even legally. It's certainly cool to blather about how "corporations are legally people!!" but it's simply wrong. They have some legal protections similar to those of a person, but it's not hard to tell the difference.
Corporate "profit" goes towards either creating jobs or as real profit to a person. You want the first, and you tax the second. The only gray area is when corporations helpfully buy someone something, e.g. they buy their CEO a car that only he ever uses and that he uses for private business. That should be taxed.
If you're using licensed spectrum, you must be licensed. So your "unlicensed" device must be licensed to use the licensed spectrum. It's not like the FCC's going to be like "Oh, well you are not licensed to use spectrum xx.x, but if nobody else is then what the hell, go ahead!". So really this is a licensed device that can optionally use unlicensed spectrum.
Yeah, I was wondering if they'd be able to do that too. The Silverlight programming model is top notch, its cross platform support isn't. If they can deliver Silverlight (or I suppose Flash if you swing that way) running in HTML5 it will be some hot shit, we'll get the best of both worlds. A good event-driven programming model that's powerful and easy to develop in as well as the software distribution excellence of HTTP/WWW.
Amen. I wonder why I come here sometimes, there are just so many stupid people posting nonsense they know nothing about. If you're writing for the web with.NET and you're not using Silverlight, you're using HTML. You're using SOAP. You're using ATOM, REST, WS-* standards, etc... In fact, there's a good chance you're using plain old MVC with jquery.
Frankly it's kind of sad, because the web _sucks_ as an application platform. It was a lowest common denominator way of managing application deployment because we had all these different platforms and it's hard to develop UIs across all of them. Then it grew like a cancer. Now it's a great software distribution mechanism and a shitty development/user-experience one. Writing applications to fit on top of HTTP and its idiosyncrasies is an insanely expensive proposition. Compare writing a web application to writing a native application in a modern GUI toolkit - it's night and day.
Cute, another angry nerd who doesn't know what he's talking about blathering on the internet. You guys should start a site up, a kind of mutual admiration society.
More of the same nonsense. MacOS is 5% of the market, and holding stable, sometimes a little up, sometimes a little down. It's a silly dead end, it's funny to me you think Microsoft is losing ground there.
Mobile - you may be right. Microsoft is way behind at this point, and it's unclear if they can catch up. It's silly, however, to think that someone with their money, and occasional will, is completely out of the picture.
Apache/PGP is running a lot of sites, just not very important ones. As usual, people on Slashdot tend to frequently display that they have no idea of what's going on in the corporate world and think whatever small company they tend to work for, or their local ISP, or some shitty little hosting company they use is indicative of the real world.
And yes, limiting yourself to one platform is silly. I prefer.NET as a platform because the tools are superior and there's nothing really close for someone developing enterprise automation. But I'd go slumming and do some Java or old school C++ if I needed to.
Yeah, I don't know where this myth of.NET being some cookie-cutter code generator. Possibly from the fact that MS was early and successful in bringing WYSIWYG GUI development tools to the masses. Still, it's just untrue and silly. Even WF (Workflow Foundation), which is supposed to be the "drag and drop programming language", is not trivial and is far beyond the ability of an entry level programmer to develop a non-trivial application in. In addition, it still all just boils down to code - either in XML or in plain old C#.
Some of the hardest core developers you will ever meet are.NET developers, and many of them big into open source. Go tell the NHibernate guys about how cookie cutter and silly their platform of choice is. Or go tell some of the enterprise developers who make $200k a year designing scalable corporation wide applications about how lame and unused.NET is.
If I have to hear one more system admin cum Perl coder at some shitty startup pontificate to the world on how much of a failure.NET is and how nobody uses it, I'm going to vomit into my mouth...just a little bit.
Pretending.NET isn't a valid platform for many types of applications is as silly as claiming it's the perfect platform for every application.
God save us. Why do people who know nothing about a given topic post on that topic and advertise their idiocy to the world? C# (and.NET) are heavily used in enterprise development, among other areas. Somewhere between scripting and "real" application programming languages? Huh? You're just completely full of shit.
Ahahaha. Wow. You don't get out much, do you? Your complete obliviousness to corporate America is cute, though. All those enterprise applications developed in (lol) PHP.. Right.
Yeah, and whenever some stupid asshole jumps to conclusions and blathers a bunch of paranoid delusional bullshit, have you ever noticed they refuse to accept any explanation other than the evil they initially attributed the incident to? Kind of the mindset of Troofers, Birfers, and anti-Evolutionists really. No matter what evidence you put forward, they will never accept anything other than the delusion that gives them their mental high.
And your post is another cynical data point in the bandwagon jumping paranoid delusional mindset of the "omg the bad corporations are out to get me!" crowd. This was identified as a bug and has been resolved. Where does all your blathering about morality end up, then? Yes - on the garbage heap.
You still have suckers buying high end sound cards, though, oddly enough, and I'm not sure you're right about almost every gamer. I bet a sizable chunk of them still think they need to buy add-in sound cards.
You're so entirely full of shit. Full HD monitor? What the hell kind of 2007 integrated chipset are you talking about? Basically every point you're making is nonsense. Integrated GPUs are an issue for gamers (medium to hard core), special cases like multiple monitors, and for GPGPU - all except for gamers rare.
BS. Few people need or use GPGPU, any modern integrated GPU will accelerate the desktop, and very few need anything beyond resolutions offered by a 30" monitor.
Sure it's serious. But how many people has nuclear power killed in its history? Maybe 10k (Chernobyl, non retarded death estimate + some fluff). Coal power kills possibly up to that number every year. There are much higher numbers floating around, but I don't buy them any more than I buy the 1M Chernobyl bullshit numbers. Coal power has been responsible, worldwide, for far more deaths than nuclear power. Where's the outrage? Where's the panic?
People are afraid of this because radiation seems like magic, and because in the worst case it can be a pretty shitty way to die. Plus it feeds into the fears about cancer. But if you look at it rationally, it's just not that big a deal. I know even one death is too many, but I'd be shocked if the death toll from the reactors in Japan reached even 100, much less 1000. How many people died in the Tsunami itself, 10k+? And people are fucking panicking over this? It's bullshit. Just like more people die from drunk drivers than terrorism yet terrorism has drastically changed many aspects of American life.
If something totally unlikely and crazy happens and this ends up killing 20k people, I'll come back on and admit I was wrong but I don't see it happening.
Hippie BS. Wind and solar should be part of the solution, but you'll never get over 40% across the entire US from renewable energy, and that's a _hell_ of a big effort to get there.
We need safe, modern nuclear power plants for the foreseeable future. I agree we should strive to get as much from wind/solar/hydro/biofuel/whatever as we can, but it's not going to be nearly enough.
The other thing about wind power is it's bullshit. Hippie bullshit. Not quite as bad as flower power, but it's up there. I'd be shocked and amazed if wind power was ever more than a 15% solution in the US, with its power needs.
Don't get me wrong, we should try to eek out a nice 8-10% from wind, maybe another 10-15% from solar, don't know how much hydroelectric - maybe another 10%?. But where do you hippies think the remaining 60-70% is going to come from? I vote nuclear, but safe, modern nuclear.
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Nobody said anything about anyone gay. Wait, you don't think a man acting effeminately and a man being homosexual are the same thing, do you? Talk about stereotypes...
Crybabying about low corporate taxes is fashionable, but doesn't really hold up to reason. It's just a way for certain types of people to rouse the rabble about how the "fat cats" (be they fat cat Washington politicians, fat cat lawyers, fat cat CEOs, fat cat top-hat wearing bankers with monocles, you name it) are pulling one over on Joe American. What's funny is we're soon approaching the point of no return where on average Joe American pays no net taxes, so it's hard to imagine the kind of contortions you'd have to go through to whine about corporate taxation then.
Anyway, corporations don't realize profits - people do. And corporations are not people, not even legally. It's certainly cool to blather about how "corporations are legally people!!" but it's simply wrong. They have some legal protections similar to those of a person, but it's not hard to tell the difference.
Corporate "profit" goes towards either creating jobs or as real profit to a person. You want the first, and you tax the second. The only gray area is when corporations helpfully buy someone something, e.g. they buy their CEO a car that only he ever uses and that he uses for private business. That should be taxed.
If you're using licensed spectrum, you must be licensed. So your "unlicensed" device must be licensed to use the licensed spectrum. It's not like the FCC's going to be like "Oh, well you are not licensed to use spectrum xx.x, but if nobody else is then what the hell, go ahead!". So really this is a licensed device that can optionally use unlicensed spectrum.
But it doesn't have a really slow processor. It's UC'd to 800MHz, you can easily OC it to 1.1 GHz.
Yeah, I was wondering if they'd be able to do that too. The Silverlight programming model is top notch, its cross platform support isn't. If they can deliver Silverlight (or I suppose Flash if you swing that way) running in HTML5 it will be some hot shit, we'll get the best of both worlds. A good event-driven programming model that's powerful and easy to develop in as well as the software distribution excellence of HTTP/WWW.
Amen. I wonder why I come here sometimes, there are just so many stupid people posting nonsense they know nothing about. If you're writing for the web with .NET and you're not using Silverlight, you're using HTML. You're using SOAP. You're using ATOM, REST, WS-* standards, etc... In fact, there's a good chance you're using plain old MVC with jquery.
Frankly it's kind of sad, because the web _sucks_ as an application platform. It was a lowest common denominator way of managing application deployment because we had all these different platforms and it's hard to develop UIs across all of them. Then it grew like a cancer. Now it's a great software distribution mechanism and a shitty development/user-experience one. Writing applications to fit on top of HTTP and its idiosyncrasies is an insanely expensive proposition. Compare writing a web application to writing a native application in a modern GUI toolkit - it's night and day.
Cute, another angry nerd who doesn't know what he's talking about blathering on the internet. You guys should start a site up, a kind of mutual admiration society.
Oh, wait... I see what I did there.
More of the same nonsense. MacOS is 5% of the market, and holding stable, sometimes a little up, sometimes a little down. It's a silly dead end, it's funny to me you think Microsoft is losing ground there.
Mobile - you may be right. Microsoft is way behind at this point, and it's unclear if they can catch up. It's silly, however, to think that someone with their money, and occasional will, is completely out of the picture.
Apache/PGP is running a lot of sites, just not very important ones. As usual, people on Slashdot tend to frequently display that they have no idea of what's going on in the corporate world and think whatever small company they tend to work for, or their local ISP, or some shitty little hosting company they use is indicative of the real world.
And yes, limiting yourself to one platform is silly. I prefer .NET as a platform because the tools are superior and there's nothing really close for someone developing enterprise automation. But I'd go slumming and do some Java or old school C++ if I needed to.
Yeah, I don't know where this myth of .NET being some cookie-cutter code generator. Possibly from the fact that MS was early and successful in bringing WYSIWYG GUI development tools to the masses. Still, it's just untrue and silly. Even WF (Workflow Foundation), which is supposed to be the "drag and drop programming language", is not trivial and is far beyond the ability of an entry level programmer to develop a non-trivial application in. In addition, it still all just boils down to code - either in XML or in plain old C#.
Some of the hardest core developers you will ever meet are .NET developers, and many of them big into open source. Go tell the NHibernate guys about how cookie cutter and silly their platform of choice is. Or go tell some of the enterprise developers who make $200k a year designing scalable corporation wide applications about how lame and unused .NET is.
If I have to hear one more system admin cum Perl coder at some shitty startup pontificate to the world on how much of a failure .NET is and how nobody uses it, I'm going to vomit into my mouth...just a little bit.
Pretending .NET isn't a valid platform for many types of applications is as silly as claiming it's the perfect platform for every application.
God save us. Why do people who know nothing about a given topic post on that topic and advertise their idiocy to the world? C# (and .NET) are heavily used in enterprise development, among other areas. Somewhere between scripting and "real" application programming languages? Huh? You're just completely full of shit.
Ahahaha. Wow. You don't get out much, do you? Your complete obliviousness to corporate America is cute, though. All those enterprise applications developed in (lol) PHP.. Right.
Yeah, and whenever some stupid asshole jumps to conclusions and blathers a bunch of paranoid delusional bullshit, have you ever noticed they refuse to accept any explanation other than the evil they initially attributed the incident to? Kind of the mindset of Troofers, Birfers, and anti-Evolutionists really. No matter what evidence you put forward, they will never accept anything other than the delusion that gives them their mental high.
And your post is another cynical data point in the bandwagon jumping paranoid delusional mindset of the "omg the bad corporations are out to get me!" crowd. This was identified as a bug and has been resolved. Where does all your blathering about morality end up, then? Yes - on the garbage heap.
Yeah, it wasn't a bug. They were out to get people, for.. however short a period of time it was broken. You totally busted those corporatist assholes!
Do you ever get tired of yourself, I mean really?
You still have suckers buying high end sound cards, though, oddly enough, and I'm not sure you're right about almost every gamer. I bet a sizable chunk of them still think they need to buy add-in sound cards.
You're so entirely full of shit. Full HD monitor? What the hell kind of 2007 integrated chipset are you talking about? Basically every point you're making is nonsense. Integrated GPUs are an issue for gamers (medium to hard core), special cases like multiple monitors, and for GPGPU - all except for gamers rare.
BS. Few people need or use GPGPU, any modern integrated GPU will accelerate the desktop, and very few need anything beyond resolutions offered by a 30" monitor.
Sure it's serious. But how many people has nuclear power killed in its history? Maybe 10k (Chernobyl, non retarded death estimate + some fluff). Coal power kills possibly up to that number every year. There are much higher numbers floating around, but I don't buy them any more than I buy the 1M Chernobyl bullshit numbers. Coal power has been responsible, worldwide, for far more deaths than nuclear power. Where's the outrage? Where's the panic?
People are afraid of this because radiation seems like magic, and because in the worst case it can be a pretty shitty way to die. Plus it feeds into the fears about cancer. But if you look at it rationally, it's just not that big a deal. I know even one death is too many, but I'd be shocked if the death toll from the reactors in Japan reached even 100, much less 1000. How many people died in the Tsunami itself, 10k+? And people are fucking panicking over this? It's bullshit. Just like more people die from drunk drivers than terrorism yet terrorism has drastically changed many aspects of American life.
If something totally unlikely and crazy happens and this ends up killing 20k people, I'll come back on and admit I was wrong but I don't see it happening.
but used the terms 'Nigerian' and 'criminal' interchangeably throughout the film.
I'm not sure I see the racism. You do know Nigerian is a nationality, right?
What's spooky? It's nonsense, if they want more money out of you they'll just increase their existing rates.
Ahh, "tablet specific". Yeah, because I can _totally_ only use those, amirite? I like your artificial constraint.
You must be new to the Apple Mentality...
Yeah, they're totally going to dominate us with their ancient 65nm, slow chips in a slow ass supercomputer that hasn't even been built yet.
Hippie BS. Wind and solar should be part of the solution, but you'll never get over 40% across the entire US from renewable energy, and that's a _hell_ of a big effort to get there.
We need safe, modern nuclear power plants for the foreseeable future. I agree we should strive to get as much from wind/solar/hydro/biofuel/whatever as we can, but it's not going to be nearly enough.
The other thing about wind power is it's bullshit. Hippie bullshit. Not quite as bad as flower power, but it's up there. I'd be shocked and amazed if wind power was ever more than a 15% solution in the US, with its power needs.
Don't get me wrong, we should try to eek out a nice 8-10% from wind, maybe another 10-15% from solar, don't know how much hydroelectric - maybe another 10%?. But where do you hippies think the remaining 60-70% is going to come from? I vote nuclear, but safe, modern nuclear.