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  1. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    Your XP disc is useful to someone, just not you. How is it different to a book, which is written once and copied many times, and which is generally obsolete to you once you've read it?

    I can legally resell a book. I cannot legally resell my license to Windows.

    I agree with you about the re-sale of purchased goods, why should a product such as an operating system not be treated like any other commodity?

    That was my point... The "actual property" aspect of it was a minor point. As far as training, you can reteach that to someone. Morse code, the steam engine... these can all be legally passed on to someone without having to pay the "inventor" a fee.

  2. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    I don't own a Mac.

  3. Re:I have to say... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    It's not coming straight for us so there's no drilling required... however, there is an armada of alien ships hiding behind it so we'll need Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum to head to their nearest airbase.

  4. Re:No love for financial institutions. on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    Well, if you include each sale of stock in the sales tax, you could get away with a lower overall sales tax. (It's the tax the rich scheme so many people seem to be clamoring for...) Obviously, it would have to be variable (per year?) to adjust for changes in people's buying habits (if stock trades slowed down... it would have to go up) Of course, that means having a budget, planning and sticking to it.

  5. Re:Will never pass on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    I just bought a house and while the mortgage process was way too long (took about 70 days[!] when all said and done) it wasn't necessarily impossible. Though, I felt as though the bank was buying the house for themselves. (Rightly so though, since if I default it's their house to sell. I'd do the same thing.)

  6. Re:No love for financial institutions. on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    Classify a trade as a sale (if it isn't already, it should be...) Institute a sales tax on all sales and you have an ability to tax HFT.

  7. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    He produced very few products, copied them billions of times, charged exorbitant fees for them, and lead policy and law that dictated that you cannot resell that product legally.

    It's not like he made actual physical products that could be used for many years, re-used by many, and passed on to your kids. He created artificial disposable products in order to obtain the most money. In a way, he's no different than stock traders, except when a trader buys a stock they can at least have a chance of reselling that item later. Stocks have tangible value, my copy of Windows XP isn't worth the CD it's printed on. He sold what amounts to garbage.

  8. Re:More importantly on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    Sure they do. The first search, second link is their Google+ profile where the second link above has the Google+ profile as the third link.

    By searching Google for "pepsi facebook", you still have to click on the links in Google, just like you have to click on the link for the Google+ profile in the links above.

  9. Re:More importantly on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    google "pepsi facebook" is good enough for me without needing to remember useless corporate shit.

    Link #2: https://www.google.com/#q=pepsi+google ("pepsi google")
    Link #3: https://www.google.com/#q=google+pepsi ("google pepsi")

    Those searches aren't all that difficult either.

  10. Re:The United States of China on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 1

    Energy is not the expense. Labor is. If factories were allowed to replace labor with robotics without a union throwing a fit... we might be able to compete.

  11. Re:The United States of China on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you want to have a government agency regulating something that doesn't exist... I guess that logic makes sense.

    That's like advocating that we instantiate slave trade regulations to keep those activities in check instead of just stopping slave trade.

  12. Re:It was that way in the U.S. in the late 80's on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, it will take a long time and when it does come nobody will want it anymore.

  13. Re:Difficulty or Popularity or Medium Popularity? on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 1

    To add:

    -Do we ask questions because the language implementation does things differently than we are used to doing in another language or that would defy common convention. Since it's needed for your job, you need to find out what way that is.

  14. Re:Towers of Hanoi? on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    I think the difference is that there's only one tower, and I assume you can maintain the order of the pancakes in the flipping stack as long as the top pancake doesn't land on a smaller one.

  15. Re:Has anyone attempted to figure out... on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    I can handsort a stack of one cards just as fast as a computer.

    I don't know why, but I read this as if it said computers had hands...

  16. Re:How about showing us what we asked for.... on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 1

    Quotes do not always prevent Google from auto-correcting: https://www.google.com/#q=%22quoties+like+this%22

  17. Re:Oh Larry, Way to Blow on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To get to the cache link, you have to open the annoying preview.

  18. Re:What? on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and good luck finding the Google search provider on the Microsoft site. You have to actually search for Google because it's not presented on the first page (or you have to scroll right for a bit to find one of them) then you have to pick one of these:
    http://www.iegallery.com/en/addons/detail.aspx?id=813
    http://www.iegallery.com/en/addons/detail.aspx?id=13555
    Which one is valid? I assume it's the first one since it takes forever to load that page at times... and the lower id would make sense.

    I also wonder if the "Bing Suggestions" button on IE registers an active hit.

  19. Re:Bust on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1

    It potentially has a lower cost to either Windows Phone or iPhone development because you can even dev it on a free OS (Linux). All you'd need is hardware, no cost in licensing involved.

  20. Re:Bust on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the only reason they see a reason for x86 tablets is the library of Windows apps. I'd go out on a limb and say Windows ARM Tablets will fail horribly and only hurt the Windows image for the casual user when they go to install the same app they have on their desktop on their new/inexpensive Windows ARM tablet. MS would be better off focusing on two systems (Windows Desktop and Windows Phone/Tablet) instead of trying to shoehorn Windows Desktop on a tablet.

  21. Re:Files, directories, and packages, oh my! on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    IMHO (as an open source supporter) applications should come in packages that you simply "install" to an app directory. The system should then create sub-directories for it to gain access to the libraries, user files (specified by user), and settings. The application should only have access to that directory and only directory links provided within that directory.

    For instance:
    I have a 64-bit app called goodthing. I install it on my machine by using my package manager. The package manager notes that it's an amd64 application and creates a directory link to the 64-bit libraries folder on the system in the application install directory called /apps/goodthing/system/lib where the application will gain access to all available libraries on the system. It will also create a directory called /apps/goodthing/system/usersettings/ pointing to ~/.settings/goodthing/ to store configurations for the user running it and /apps/goodthing/system/userfiles pointing to ~/files/goodthing/ to store files created by the application. This could be extended to encompass more functionality up to and including links to hardware files (dev for instance) that would be in /apps/goodthing/system/dev if granted/needed. Applications installed under this system would only need to ensure that they do not create a system sub-directory since that would be reserved for each system and could be deleted upon install.

  22. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    So, your question is: Why don't you have compression on your Macbook?

    I thought we were talking about Linux file compression, and you mentioned a solution (partition compression) but compare it to a Macbook and your lack of ability to compress?

  23. Re:Bold, But ... on The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet · · Score: 1

    And let me guess... it used a pen?

    I have a Tablet PC that is pen based and I hated it. Touch is the only way to do a tablet.

  24. Re:Cool, how durable is it? on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    One of my friends is a monitor toucher. I called him out on it one day and he claimed he didn't do it. I stopped him in the act and pointed it out. He apparently never realized he did it. I got so sick of cleaning the screen of my laptop I keep by the couch.

  25. Re:Lock-down time... on Sony Buys Ericsson Out For $1.47 Billion · · Score: 1

    If you are in Chrome/Chromium, in the F12 console use:

    document.getElementById('captchdiv').innerText.replace(/\s/gi, '')

    Firefox/Firebug (also Chrome) you can to loop each item:

    var o = ''; var r = document.querySelectorAll('#captchdiv b'); for(var i in r) { o += (r.hasOwnProperty(i) && r[i].innerHTML)?r[i].innerHTML:''; }; alert(o);