Evidently you don't understand the proposal. There is NO TAX on people earning less than $200K ($400K if married).
This is going to affect the lower level 200k+ people significantly more than the upper income levels (1m+) as they will suddenly lose a 1/20 portion of their income (and need it more than those who lose nearly 1/10)... how many of us would agree to a 5% reduction in salary at the drop of a hat (yes, I know part of this is deductible on the federal income tax)? How many businesses are going to be willing or able to increase the junior partners' (or equivalent) salaries that 5%?
Ahh, I see where you're going; you think that once you cross the magic $200K line you get socked with a $10K tax bill, or more. No, you don't understand taxes. Have you ever filed taxes? The 5% rate is on income OVER $200K. Someone earning $201K owes exactly $50. Fifty bucks. No, the lower level junior partners aren't going to affected at all. The number only gets large once you are single, pulling in $400K, at which point you owe $10K, which is a whopping 2.5% tax, overall. And for married people, the numbers are even more stratospheric.
I wish my taxes, state and federal, were anything like this good.
Look at the early years of the telephone system. Multiple phone companies, each with their own lines and subscribers. A business needed to have a phone with each major phone company in order to receive calls from its customers. The sky was black with competing redundant phone lines (slight hyperbole, but there are pictures of ludicrous pole congestion).
We've tried full deregulation, and it's messy.
Shut the fuck up and go back to your Randian basement.
One of the things that bothers me is that if you set tab to use spaces, it becomes some weird special-case key, treated differently than every other key on the keyboard. If I type the key labeled "A", I get an "A" character in my document. If I type the key labeled "Space", I get a space character in my document. If I type the key labeled "Tab", I get a "Tab" character in my document. Why make things hard?
Really? What do you get when you push the key labeled Delete? Or the one labeled Shift? Or the one labeled -> (cursor right)? I think you've got lots of keys that don't insert what they're labelled as.
Not because it isn't all on one line, that would be worse.
But because of the leading commas (noted by the other commenter as an abomination) and because the indentation varies by the length of the type name. An appropriate way to deal with potentially long lists is to end the line with the open delimiter (curly brace in this example), and then indent each item by a standard amount; finish with the closing delimiter on a line of its own indented to match the outer line.
I'm not going to fight with Slashdot's lame input field/text parsing, so here is an example with leading underscores: data User = User { __login_id:: LoginId, __login_password:: Password, __first_name:: Maybe FirstName, __last_name:: Maybe LastName, __email_address:: Maybe EmailAddre, __user_permissions:: [ Permission ] } deriving (Data, Eq, Ord, Show, Typeable)
Sending DTMF over a cell phone doesn't actually send the DTMF. You hear it locally, but it really works like VOIP: special packets are sent with the digits pressed (and lengths of time) rather than encoding the sound. The cell system turns it back into audio once it hits the regular phone network.
Most voice codecs do a lousy job on non-voice signals, like DTMF tones, so the phone skips the encoding on button presses so that DTMF controlled devices still work from a cell phone.
Try holding a DTMF encoder up to the earpiece of a cell phone (bypassing the local dialling buttons) and see how the tones sound on the other end; they usually sound pretty distorted, such that a DTMF recognizer won't.
While that's bad, it's not unique to government. Every department in every corporation is run exactly the same way. Fear of government is irrational; you won't get better service from the private sector.
Our budgets are tightly compartmentalized, so we can be faced with a surplus in the hardware budget; better spend it now, whether it's necessary or not, or we'll never get it again. Meanwhile, just try to travel. Travel budget is empty, although the justification for the travel is much better than the justification for more hardware. Money should be money, right? Nope, travel money is entirely different from hardware money.
So your anti-government quibbling ("And people want more things run this way? I shudder at the thought.") is in fact exactly how things are run today.
I think he means that non-static member functions can't devolve to plain old function pointers, so you use them as callbacks. This is because they implicitly need an object on which to function, and most non-C++-specific callback APIs don't have a mechanism to pass the object. Also the types are C++-specific, so the API becomes C++-specific.
That said, I think others have worked out how to build shims that integrate member function callbacks into C-style APIs, at a small extra cost (the shim needs to get called, then turn around and call the member function using an object the shim collected earlier).
That's my take on that specific complaint, at least.
Yeah, I'm sure IBM's purchase of Sun had a HUGE amount to do with this. Those IBM bastards, canceling competing projects left and right. I'm sure this was their secret plan all along. Killing SPARC because it's such a good competitor to Power and xSeries.
Oh wait, IBM DIDN'T purchase Sun. Oracle purchased Sun. The summary hinted as much.
You're really out of date. At least have a fact to add to your conspiracy theory. One fact is a big help.
Just recently I mishappened to see an episode of some American sitcom, where one of the characters said something along the lines of, "Every girl needs to visit Europe at least once in their life, so I bought a ticket to Paris." I moaned.
Are you claiming that Paris is NOT in Europe? Because visiting Paris is one way to visit Europe. Not the only way. But not a bad way.
And "I thought Europe was a country!" is usually played for a laugh at the stupidity of the comment.
This is a general problem. The first access, though "insecure", may be so obviously right that you let it go by. With sudo, it remembers that you allowed the actions recently, and keeps going [1]. UAC evidently picks up the next unauthorized action and prompts again. This would be good, in that you get to see all the bad things the program does, but of course it's annoying and trains people to just click through.
A better way would be to let the program do all its unauthorized actions, present them all to the user in a single pop-up, and then undo them if the user decides that this program looks suspicious. You'd need either a very good sandbox, or a versioning file system, as well as lots of hooks in the operating system.
A record should be kept of what actions the program takes, so if it starts doing something unauthorized that the user has NOT previously approved then it can be flagged again. Otherwise you would get a single nag pop-up, you could make a decision once, and never have to be bothered again.
Malware would get around this as well, but it would be harder.
[1] I'm thinking of a script with multiple sudo's in it, here. Of course sudo gives the whole program it runs su authority, and really you're saying that you trust this entire program, and any other programs run with sudo within a certain time window, completely. That's a hole as well.
When I was 5 or so, before I was in first grade, a neighbor girl of the same age took me into the woods so we could see each other naked. This also involved kissing. With tongues.
All this was suggested by the neighbor girl (I think her name was "Jane"), and we both enjoyed it (although I was scared of getting caught), and it was slightly sexual in nature (but not actually sexual).
Little girls and little boys have been doing this sort of thing forever. If you don't have a similar memory from your childhood, you've lead a ridiculously sheltered existence.
No, I think his point was good. If you're spending all your time on "templates and STL, learning to use and love RAII over explicit cleanup and exceptions over error codes" you're spending all your time on syntax. The goal is to get something done. If what you're getting done isn't hard enough that it takes 85% of your time, you aren't doing anything interesting. Therefore you can spend all your time debating the best use of templates.
I love templates, the STL, RAII (I find exceptions overrated, at least as used in many libraries). They make writing the code that does the work simpler, when they're designed correctly. Nonetheless, the job at hand is the actual work, and that's the part that takes up most of the code, and that part is pretty much the same in any language. The nifty features let you get as much of the language out of your way as possible, freeing you to do the actual work.
Java sucks. It's starting to suck less. The libraries suck the worst. Over complicated, under documented, and missing just as you get to the part you need. But overall, it sucks.
My son was using the mouse quite nicely at 2. Now at three he plays games on the Linux PC; mostly he recognizes the icons in the Games menu, but he recognizes the words, too. He's not actually reading yet, but he does know his letters, can type his own name, and recognizes some words in unfamiliar contexts.
Children are smarter than most people think.
My one year old comes over to the computer when no one is using it and moves the mouse and "types". He isn't using it to do anything (he's just mimicking his parents), and he hasn't made the connection yet between the mouse and the cursor on screen, but the physical dexterity is there.
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Evidently you don't understand the proposal. There is NO TAX on people earning less than $200K ($400K if married).
This is going to affect the lower level 200k+ people significantly more than the upper income levels (1m+) as they will suddenly lose a 1/20 portion of their income (and need it more than those who lose nearly 1/10)... how many of us would agree to a 5% reduction in salary at the drop of a hat (yes, I know part of this is deductible on the federal income tax)? How many businesses are going to be willing or able to increase the junior partners' (or equivalent) salaries that 5%?
Ahh, I see where you're going; you think that once you cross the magic $200K line you get socked with a $10K tax bill, or more. No, you don't understand taxes. Have you ever filed taxes? The 5% rate is on income OVER $200K. Someone earning $201K owes exactly $50. Fifty bucks. No, the lower level junior partners aren't going to affected at all. The number only gets large once you are single, pulling in $400K, at which point you owe $10K, which is a whopping 2.5% tax, overall. And for married people, the numbers are even more stratospheric.
I wish my taxes, state and federal, were anything like this good.
No, it's NOT cool!!! That's the PROBLEM!!
And your signature applies to you!
Hi-ohh, Silver!!
Bullshit.
Look at the early years of the telephone system. Multiple phone companies, each with their own lines and subscribers. A business needed to have a phone with each major phone company in order to receive calls from its customers. The sky was black with competing redundant phone lines (slight hyperbole, but there are pictures of ludicrous pole congestion).
We've tried full deregulation, and it's messy.
Shut the fuck up and go back to your Randian basement.
I don't know...
He did. Read what he wrote again. He said that it can go negative, "but it doesn't mean what you think it means".
One of the things that bothers me is that if you set tab to use spaces, it becomes some weird special-case key, treated differently than every other key on the keyboard. If I type the key labeled "A", I get an "A" character in my document. If I type the key labeled "Space", I get a space character in my document. If I type the key labeled "Tab", I get a "Tab" character in my document. Why make things hard?
Really? What do you get when you push the key labeled Delete? Or the one labeled Shift? Or the one labeled -> (cursor right)? I think you've got lots of keys that don't insert what they're labelled as.
Putz.
I agree with the other commenter. It is awful.
Not because it isn't all on one line, that would be worse.
But because of the leading commas (noted by the other commenter as an abomination) and because the indentation varies by the length of the type name. An appropriate way to deal with potentially long lists is to end the line with the open delimiter (curly brace in this example), and then indent each item by a standard amount; finish with the closing delimiter on a line of its own indented to match the outer line.
I'm not going to fight with Slashdot's lame input field/text parsing, so here is an example with leading underscores: :: LoginId, :: Password, :: Maybe FirstName, :: Maybe LastName, :: Maybe EmailAddre, :: [ Permission ]
data User = User {
__login_id
__login_password
__first_name
__last_name
__email_address
__user_permissions
} deriving (Data, Eq, Ord, Show, Typeable)
Sending DTMF over a cell phone doesn't actually send the DTMF. You hear it locally, but it really works like VOIP: special packets are sent with the digits pressed (and lengths of time) rather than encoding the sound. The cell system turns it back into audio once it hits the regular phone network.
Most voice codecs do a lousy job on non-voice signals, like DTMF tones, so the phone skips the encoding on button presses so that DTMF controlled devices still work from a cell phone.
Try holding a DTMF encoder up to the earpiece of a cell phone (bypassing the local dialling buttons) and see how the tones sound on the other end; they usually sound pretty distorted, such that a DTMF recognizer won't.
And what do you know about counting?
While that's bad, it's not unique to government. Every department in every corporation is run exactly the same way. Fear of government is irrational; you won't get better service from the private sector.
Our budgets are tightly compartmentalized, so we can be faced with a surplus in the hardware budget; better spend it now, whether it's necessary or not, or we'll never get it again. Meanwhile, just try to travel. Travel budget is empty, although the justification for the travel is much better than the justification for more hardware. Money should be money, right? Nope, travel money is entirely different from hardware money.
So your anti-government quibbling ("And people want more things run this way? I shudder at the thought.") is in fact exactly how things are run today.
I think he means that non-static member functions can't devolve to plain old function pointers, so you use them as callbacks. This is because they implicitly need an object on which to function, and most non-C++-specific callback APIs don't have a mechanism to pass the object. Also the types are C++-specific, so the API becomes C++-specific.
That said, I think others have worked out how to build shims that integrate member function callbacks into C-style APIs, at a small extra cost (the shim needs to get called, then turn around and call the member function using an object the shim collected earlier).
That's my take on that specific complaint, at least.
Romanians put ketchup on pizza.
I shit you not.
It's a different sort of ketchup; a little sweeter, a lot less tangy. Still comes in a bottle labelled Ketchup, though.
On pizza.
Yeah, I'm sure IBM's purchase of Sun had a HUGE amount to do with this. Those IBM bastards, canceling competing projects left and right. I'm sure this was their secret plan all along. Killing SPARC because it's such a good competitor to Power and xSeries.
Oh wait, IBM DIDN'T purchase Sun. Oracle purchased Sun. The summary hinted as much.
You're really out of date. At least have a fact to add to your conspiracy theory. One fact is a big help.
Idiot.
Just recently I mishappened to see an episode of some American sitcom, where one of the characters said something along the lines of, "Every girl needs to visit Europe at least once in their life, so I bought a ticket to Paris." I moaned.
Are you claiming that Paris is NOT in Europe? Because visiting Paris is one way to visit Europe. Not the only way. But not a bad way.
And "I thought Europe was a country!" is usually played for a laugh at the stupidity of the comment.
His sig is DESIGNED to piss off grammar nazis. Well bitten.
This is a general problem. The first access, though "insecure", may be so obviously right that you let it go by. With sudo, it remembers that you allowed the actions recently, and keeps going [1]. UAC evidently picks up the next unauthorized action and prompts again. This would be good, in that you get to see all the bad things the program does, but of course it's annoying and trains people to just click through.
A better way would be to let the program do all its unauthorized actions, present them all to the user in a single pop-up, and then undo them if the user decides that this program looks suspicious. You'd need either a very good sandbox, or a versioning file system, as well as lots of hooks in the operating system.
A record should be kept of what actions the program takes, so if it starts doing something unauthorized that the user has NOT previously approved then it can be flagged again. Otherwise you would get a single nag pop-up, you could make a decision once, and never have to be bothered again.
Malware would get around this as well, but it would be harder.
[1] I'm thinking of a script with multiple sudo's in it, here. Of course sudo gives the whole program it runs su authority, and really you're saying that you trust this entire program, and any other programs run with sudo within a certain time window, completely. That's a hole as well.
You're an idiot.
When I was 5 or so, before I was in first grade, a neighbor girl of the same age took me into the woods so we could see each other naked. This also involved kissing. With tongues.
All this was suggested by the neighbor girl (I think her name was "Jane"), and we both enjoyed it (although I was scared of getting caught), and it was slightly sexual in nature (but not actually sexual).
Little girls and little boys have been doing this sort of thing forever. If you don't have a similar memory from your childhood, you've lead a ridiculously sheltered existence.
This was all back in 1968 or 1969 or so.
Code monkeys can't spell slashdot. The lack of punctuation throws them.
No, I think his point was good. If you're spending all your time on "templates and STL, learning to use and love RAII over explicit cleanup and exceptions over error codes" you're spending all your time on syntax. The goal is to get something done. If what you're getting done isn't hard enough that it takes 85% of your time, you aren't doing anything interesting. Therefore you can spend all your time debating the best use of templates.
I love templates, the STL, RAII (I find exceptions overrated, at least as used in many libraries). They make writing the code that does the work simpler, when they're designed correctly. Nonetheless, the job at hand is the actual work, and that's the part that takes up most of the code, and that part is pretty much the same in any language. The nifty features let you get as much of the language out of your way as possible, freeing you to do the actual work.
Java sucks. It's starting to suck less. The libraries suck the worst. Over complicated, under documented, and missing just as you get to the part you need. But overall, it sucks.
My son was using the mouse quite nicely at 2. Now at three he plays games on the Linux PC; mostly he recognizes the icons in the Games menu, but he recognizes the words, too. He's not actually reading yet, but he does know his letters, can type his own name, and recognizes some words in unfamiliar contexts.
Children are smarter than most people think.
My one year old comes over to the computer when no one is using it and moves the mouse and "types". He isn't using it to do anything (he's just mimicking his parents), and he hasn't made the connection yet between the mouse and the cursor on screen, but the physical dexterity is there.
Ahh, England.
To the moderators (currently +4 Interesting): Whoosh!
If I had mod points today I'd give this what it deserves. :-)
Wasn't he that guy who went around a lot? Travelling?
And hey, I followed your link and the definition is so still there!
Wait a minute...