Exactly. I use Netflix streaming a lot -- the price is right and I usually have no trouble finding something I want to watch when I want to watch it. I think the fact that its bandwidth usage exceeds P2P transfers is something the industry should notice. Many people are perfectly happy obtaining their content legally -- they just need an outlet that provides it at a reasonable cost without BS ads. If the industry doesn't provide, people will get it other ways (i.e., piracy), but if it is made easily available at affordable rates without advertising and its associated delays/annoyances, people will devour it. The proof is Netflix.
I mostly agree. My disagreement is the weight you put on ads. Ads are an annoyance, but I think most of the value is quality shows to pick from on the viewer's schedule for a price that is reasonable.
Hmm.. nope, that reads as exactly what I think it means. What do you think it means?
As linked in the wiki article, it refers to disasters like floods or bombing; where the building that housed your data center no longer exists and you're employees are probably living in shelters.
"Besides, the country isn't broke, just horrible at distributing wealth."
Our country takes in $2.5T in revenues each year, spends about $4.3T, and has so far racked-up just over $14.3T in debt.
If we scale those numbers down to the personal level (slide the decimal point a few places to the left), that would be like a person that earns $25K/yr spending $43K/yr, and is carrying $143K in unsecured debt.
I'd call that person broke, why is it different when a country is in the same straits?
Because you can ask why a country isn't collecting more than $2.5T to make up the difference, but you can't ask a high school drop out why they aren't making more than $25K a year because, well, they can't (generalization alert). The point that AC was trying to make was that part of why we're only collecting $2.5T is that we hand out over-sized tax cuts to rich individuals (tax cuts that weren't necessary to drive the dot-com boom) as well as to many business not in need of such support or incentives (such as Big Oil).
You should also keep in mind that those numbers (revenue, expenditures, and debt) were much better 11 years ago. What changed between then and now (and don't just say '9/11'; as horrible as that day was, it didn't burn $8T)? What were the issues that drove people to vote and what were the issues people ignored?
Nothing too formal. Basically I assess where they are, then work with them individually. I personally review their code before they check in (at least at first) and enforce some process (such as design documents and unit tests).
And new people start with a 6 month contract so if things are not what we expected, there is the option to not extend the contract...
There's another term for a junior programmer with a 6 month contract: a co-op.
My company has a co-op program. We assign a mentor to them and take their CompSci skills and turn them into software engineers. The primary difficulty I've run into is not "they don't have work experience." I've had pretty good success turning students into software engineers by working with them. The problems start when we get someone who slipped through and they can't program, period.
>>>The heavier vehicles create more wear due to their greater mass and they pay more into the tax fund because they consume more fuel to move that mass around.
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Unless they are electric powered (like hybrids). Then the heavier vehicle might actually burn less gasoline, and pay less tax, than a lighter vehicle.
I think if you go and see what a Tahoe-hybrid's (yes they exist) fuel economy is, you'll find that it's still worse than a full-size sedan with a v8.
This tax structure also doesn't factor in the consumption of performance cars, but anyone who is shouting how unfair this is isn't thinking how expensive and dangerous a government agency that tracks vehicle movements is.
If these dogs get such expensive training, why did he bite a board and break all his teeth on it? My dog has only a couple hundred dollars worth of training and even he's smart enough not to do that!
Context as to why is missing. Perhaps he lunging at an escapee who put a 2x4 in the dogs path to protect himself?
Good statistics, but I wonder a bit about the demographics of the 6 per 100k people in China. For example, do these 6 tend to be out of the work force? Are they in lower quality jobs? What's the suicide rate for employed Chinese (or even Chinese employed in a factory; or electronics factory)? Chinese electronics factory workers might be statistically less likely to commit suicide due to quality of life (i.e. better pay) and other considerations. This would reinforce that the 18 suicide attempts are statistically high.
(just playing devil's advocate; your post was well thought out)
You can't appeal a small claims case and you are always responsible for collecting your own judgement.
This probably depends on jurisdiction, but I know of a small claims case that was appealed locally. The plaintiff wasn't happy that they lost and appealed against two college students who had moved across the country. Kind of an ass move.
Sorry? What exactly did Saddam and Iraq have to do with the 'War on Terror'? I mean, other than pissing off the fundamentalist Muslims even more than before.
It was started under the false premise that it was relevant to the War on Terror and the extremists responded. Our soldiers fought terrorists associated with the same terrorists who attacked us.
Apparently you have never worked with data. It's an incredibly creative process, especially when all answers are technically correct but only certain ones are more helpful, useful, or easily interpretable.
It's also about being able to work with a massively large data set in a reasonably efficient fashion. Technologies and code that work well for hundreds or thousands break down when you surpass 100 million. I speak from experience.
The laffer curve state that if you decrease rates for some portions of the curve you can decrease evasion even more to increase total revenue. It's a simple microeconomic curve of risk or evasion vs. benefit of evasion.
Your claim is likely true, but it is only true in the long term, and not the short.
The primary difficulty with the Laffer curve is knowing which side of the peak you're on. The primary abuse of the Laffer curve is to justify large, targeted (e.g. for the rich) tax cuts when it requires small refinement in across-the-board tax levels.
...is that SQL sucks as a language. It's not terribly expressive, the ordering of arguments is inconsistent, and whoever designed the way JOIN works should be in jail.
Frankly, I'd like to see SQL die and get replaced with something more modern. We don't program in Cobol anymore, so why the hell are we still using SQL?
You should not seek to replace something just because it is 'old' and not 'modern'. I've seen quite a bit of the modern SQL-alternatives. They have their niches but I have yet to see one that is ready to topple a well-designed relational database in performance and scalability.
There's still a market for enthusiasts that build their own machines from parts. You get exactly what you want that way. That's how I get new machines. Granted, I rarely upgrade a CPU without building a new box; I do tend to upgrade video card/memory at least once before I send an old gaming box to a family member.
This describes me pretty well. I want to pick specific components and features (which Intel processor, which graphics and SATA support, etc).
I have no interest in buying an off-the-shelf box with a motherboard and components picked amongst the lowest bidders paired with the most expensive Intel CPU available. I get a either a bare-bones system or motherboard combo from mwave (paying $10 for them to assemble and test), and I can upgrade to a screamer of a machine for $500 + graphics card (last time that was $300 for a near-top-of-the-line).
Fuck at this point taking the warriors way out and killing himself would be a boon to TEPCO and Japan.....
That was more or less my first thought when it became evident that some corners had been cut - "in other times, a few seppuku would've been in order, either by own initiative or sentenced by the higher-ups".
Of course, this will have an equally declining effect on the price of oil and Big Texas profits. Whom I'm sure will not go quiet into the night.
I'm not so sure. Shifting the tax from gas to distance traveled will lower the importance of fuel efficiency since gas will be 18 cents cheaper. Distance traveled might decrease some, but now a suburban and a Prius are taxed equally. Yes the Prius is still cheaper to drive, but there is one less incentive to own one.
The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally.
*Vehicles already have odometers, and don't all states require periodic emissions inspections? If they really wanted to tax based on actual miles traveled, they can just copy down the mileage then.
I find this reason ironic because for half a decade they were handing out incentives for hybrid owners. But that's just how government works I guess.
And you don't think that some crappy mp3s of Michael Jackson are worth every penny that?!?
The scariest (or most interesting) part of this is that it's not so much that the lawyers said so, but the law itself says that is the amount. So if anyone is wrong here, it's the law. The plaintiff is indeed simply asking for the damage amounts based on what is described in the law at the proper calcuation method..
I believe that law was written back when copy-write offenders were guys with tables on the street selling bootleg VHS tapes; back when "piracy" was for profit.
If nuclear power plants are used to power cities, why can't they power their own cooling? Seems like keeping the darn thing running would be safer than watching it sit there unpowered and on the verge of blowing up. (Don't get me wrong; I'm sure there's a good reason. I'm just curious.)
The reactors were configured to shutdown when a major earthquake hit as a precautionary action, which they did. The reactors would then use power from the grid to continue cooling. Just in case the grid had issues, there were on-site generators (which I've heard were not sitting above ground, but I'm not 100% sure on that one). The tsunami knocked out the power lines to/from the grid and either the generators or the electronics between the generators and the reactor.
Their planning wasn't horrible as they 1) went into a safe mode and 2) had on-site backups. They failed to anticipate the scenario where a tsunami swept over the sea wall (where you want to build things to be waterproof, protected, and able to just ride things out).
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And I'm excited to not have to look at it when I don't need to. It seems we are at an impasse.
And that's why it's configurable.
Exactly. I use Netflix streaming a lot -- the price is right and I usually have no trouble finding something I want to watch when I want to watch it. I think the fact that its bandwidth usage exceeds P2P transfers is something the industry should notice. Many people are perfectly happy obtaining their content legally -- they just need an outlet that provides it at a reasonable cost without BS ads. If the industry doesn't provide, people will get it other ways (i.e., piracy), but if it is made easily available at affordable rates without advertising and its associated delays/annoyances, people will devour it. The proof is Netflix.
I mostly agree. My disagreement is the weight you put on ads. Ads are an annoyance, but I think most of the value is quality shows to pick from on the viewer's schedule for a price that is reasonable.
Hmm.. nope, that reads as exactly what I think it means. What do you think it means?
As linked in the wiki article, it refers to disasters like floods or bombing; where the building that housed your data center no longer exists and you're employees are probably living in shelters.
Your head must be stuck in sand if you think this is about money.
Our country takes in $2.5T in revenues each year, spends about $4.3T, and has so far racked-up just over $14.3T in debt.
If we scale those numbers down to the personal level (slide the decimal point a few places to the left), that would be like a person that earns $25K/yr spending $43K/yr, and is carrying $143K in unsecured debt.
I'd call that person broke, why is it different when a country is in the same straits?
Because you can ask why a country isn't collecting more than $2.5T to make up the difference, but you can't ask a high school drop out why they aren't making more than $25K a year because, well, they can't (generalization alert). The point that AC was trying to make was that part of why we're only collecting $2.5T is that we hand out over-sized tax cuts to rich individuals (tax cuts that weren't necessary to drive the dot-com boom) as well as to many business not in need of such support or incentives (such as Big Oil).
You should also keep in mind that those numbers (revenue, expenditures, and debt) were much better 11 years ago. What changed between then and now (and don't just say '9/11'; as horrible as that day was, it didn't burn $8T)? What were the issues that drove people to vote and what were the issues people ignored?
and apparently having no disaster recovery plan.
I do not think it means what you think it means. Go here for more information.
Nothing too formal. Basically I assess where they are, then work with them individually. I personally review their code before they check in (at least at first) and enforce some process (such as design documents and unit tests).
And new people start with a 6 month contract so if things are not what we expected, there is the option to not extend the contract...
There's another term for a junior programmer with a 6 month contract: a co-op.
My company has a co-op program. We assign a mentor to them and take their CompSci skills and turn them into software engineers. The primary difficulty I've run into is not "they don't have work experience." I've had pretty good success turning students into software engineers by working with them. The problems start when we get someone who slipped through and they can't program, period.
>>>The heavier vehicles create more wear due to their greater mass and they pay more into the tax fund because they consume more fuel to move that mass around. >>>
Unless they are electric powered (like hybrids). Then the heavier vehicle might actually burn less gasoline, and pay less tax, than a lighter vehicle.
I think if you go and see what a Tahoe-hybrid's (yes they exist) fuel economy is, you'll find that it's still worse than a full-size sedan with a v8.
This tax structure also doesn't factor in the consumption of performance cars, but anyone who is shouting how unfair this is isn't thinking how expensive and dangerous a government agency that tracks vehicle movements is.
If these dogs get such expensive training, why did he bite a board and break all his teeth on it? My dog has only a couple hundred dollars worth of training and even he's smart enough not to do that!
Context as to why is missing. Perhaps he lunging at an escapee who put a 2x4 in the dogs path to protect himself?
Good statistics, but I wonder a bit about the demographics of the 6 per 100k people in China. For example, do these 6 tend to be out of the work force? Are they in lower quality jobs? What's the suicide rate for employed Chinese (or even Chinese employed in a factory; or electronics factory)? Chinese electronics factory workers might be statistically less likely to commit suicide due to quality of life (i.e. better pay) and other considerations. This would reinforce that the 18 suicide attempts are statistically high.
(just playing devil's advocate; your post was well thought out)
You can't appeal a small claims case and you are always responsible for collecting your own judgement.
This probably depends on jurisdiction, but I know of a small claims case that was appealed locally. The plaintiff wasn't happy that they lost and appealed against two college students who had moved across the country. Kind of an ass move.
Sorry? What exactly did Saddam and Iraq have to do with the 'War on Terror'? I mean, other than pissing off the fundamentalist Muslims even more than before.
It was started under the false premise that it was relevant to the War on Terror and the extremists responded. Our soldiers fought terrorists associated with the same terrorists who attacked us.
The question is, _whose_ two balls has it grabbed? Programming a robot to grab balls two at a time... what could possibly go wrong?
I'll bet there is a German geek somewhere who's a bit less of a man than he was before this project started.
That's about twice as many as I would expect! Good going.
I wonder how many of that half who didn't pay were trying to buy alcohol but had no one to authorize their purchase.
Apparently you have never worked with data. It's an incredibly creative process, especially when all answers are technically correct but only certain ones are more helpful, useful, or easily interpretable.
It's also about being able to work with a massively large data set in a reasonably efficient fashion. Technologies and code that work well for hundreds or thousands break down when you surpass 100 million. I speak from experience.
The laffer curve state that if you decrease rates for some portions of the curve you can decrease evasion even more to increase total revenue. It's a simple microeconomic curve of risk or evasion vs. benefit of evasion. Your claim is likely true, but it is only true in the long term, and not the short.
The primary difficulty with the Laffer curve is knowing which side of the peak you're on. The primary abuse of the Laffer curve is to justify large, targeted (e.g. for the rich) tax cuts when it requires small refinement in across-the-board tax levels.
...is that SQL sucks as a language. It's not terribly expressive, the ordering of arguments is inconsistent, and whoever designed the way JOIN works should be in jail.
Frankly, I'd like to see SQL die and get replaced with something more modern. We don't program in Cobol anymore, so why the hell are we still using SQL?
You should not seek to replace something just because it is 'old' and not 'modern'. I've seen quite a bit of the modern SQL-alternatives. They have their niches but I have yet to see one that is ready to topple a well-designed relational database in performance and scalability.
There's still a market for enthusiasts that build their own machines from parts. You get exactly what you want that way. That's how I get new machines. Granted, I rarely upgrade a CPU without building a new box; I do tend to upgrade video card/memory at least once before I send an old gaming box to a family member.
This describes me pretty well. I want to pick specific components and features (which Intel processor, which graphics and SATA support, etc).
I have no interest in buying an off-the-shelf box with a motherboard and components picked amongst the lowest bidders paired with the most expensive Intel CPU available. I get a either a bare-bones system or motherboard combo from mwave (paying $10 for them to assemble and test), and I can upgrade to a screamer of a machine for $500 + graphics card (last time that was $300 for a near-top-of-the-line).
Hey, I think I saw that one. That's the one where the ugly garbage cleaning robot and the elegant, nimble robot fall in love.
And there was not a word of English (except the occasional one spoken by fat people)?
Fuck at this point taking the warriors way out and killing himself would be a boon to TEPCO and Japan.....
That was more or less my first thought when it became evident that some corners had been cut - "in other times, a few seppuku would've been in order, either by own initiative or sentenced by the higher-ups".
You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.
Of course, this will have an equally declining effect on the price of oil and Big Texas profits. Whom I'm sure will not go quiet into the night.
I'm not so sure. Shifting the tax from gas to distance traveled will lower the importance of fuel efficiency since gas will be 18 cents cheaper. Distance traveled might decrease some, but now a suburban and a Prius are taxed equally. Yes the Prius is still cheaper to drive, but there is one less incentive to own one.
The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally.
*Vehicles already have odometers, and don't all states require periodic emissions inspections? If they really wanted to tax based on actual miles traveled, they can just copy down the mileage then.
I find this reason ironic because for half a decade they were handing out incentives for hybrid owners. But that's just how government works I guess.
And you don't think that some crappy mp3s of Michael Jackson are worth every penny that?!?
The scariest (or most interesting) part of this is that it's not so much that the lawyers said so, but the law itself says that is the amount. So if anyone is wrong here, it's the law. The plaintiff is indeed simply asking for the damage amounts based on what is described in the law at the proper calcuation method. .
I believe that law was written back when copy-write offenders were guys with tables on the street selling bootleg VHS tapes; back when "piracy" was for profit.
If nuclear power plants are used to power cities, why can't they power their own cooling? Seems like keeping the darn thing running would be safer than watching it sit there unpowered and on the verge of blowing up. (Don't get me wrong; I'm sure there's a good reason. I'm just curious.)
The reactors were configured to shutdown when a major earthquake hit as a precautionary action, which they did. The reactors would then use power from the grid to continue cooling. Just in case the grid had issues, there were on-site generators (which I've heard were not sitting above ground, but I'm not 100% sure on that one). The tsunami knocked out the power lines to/from the grid and either the generators or the electronics between the generators and the reactor.
Their planning wasn't horrible as they 1) went into a safe mode and 2) had on-site backups. They failed to anticipate the scenario where a tsunami swept over the sea wall (where you want to build things to be waterproof, protected, and able to just ride things out).