Ah, my bad. I concede that it's possible for car costs to exceed mortgage costs (although those should also include insurance and property taxes).
Over the last decade, though, my car costs (loan, gas, insurance, maintenance) have been a third of my housing costs (mortgage, property tax, insurance, but not maintenance). Oh, BTW, $15,600 per year gets you a $235,420.37 30-year mortgage at 5.25%. That won't get you much house in the DC area (and garbage in the San Francisco area, unless the market's collapsed in the last year).
$15,600 for a house! Not anywhere remotely close to an urban center. Hell, in the DC area, show me a house for $156,000 and I'll show you a sewer or landfill. A quick search on realtor.com shows one property for less than $150,000. It has 2 bedrooms, 0.05 acres and is a "Fixer-upper/handyman special."
Um, 17% of $37 billion is roughly $6.3 billion. The current population on the planet is roughly 6.6 billion people. That works out to 95 cents each, a far cry from a million dollars. Assuming a 10% rate of return, if you were to invest that money, it would take more than 145 years to reach $1 million. Of course, the $25 transaction fee would more than eradicate the 95 cents.
I agree, the US government spends 49% of its discretionary funds on the department of defense. That amount needs to be A) reduced dramatically and B) transitioned to local defense spending.
But this isn't just banning 'snuff film games'. The article indicates the bill would also ban a game that "depicts lead characters who resort to violence freely." Almost without fail, when Lara Croft encounters a moving target (animal or human), she pulls out a pistol (or two) and blows it away. Sounds like a lead character who resorts to violence freely. Yet, Tomb Raider is one of my six-year-old daughter's favorite games. (And she hasn't yet tried to shoot anyone IRL.) Nope, this bill is poorly written, and I trust will not pass constitutional muster.
My chief problem with this application is that I don't want somebody else organizing my financial data for me. I want my spreadsheets on my machine, backed up onto my external media, and not shared with anyone. (Except the darned IRS keeps insisting otherwise!) Do people really use a financial tool for so many other tasks that Google has a hit on its hands? Or perhaps most people are willing to share their finances with Google? (Wow, the targeted ads this would facilitate! Or even a Google Assistant called Gippy(TM): "I see you are almost broke, can I recommend a pawn broker?")
What gave you the impression that this article pertains to 'remote deauthorization' or 'unlegitimization' of Windows? TFA describes how the anti-piracy tool can be shut down remotely. Basically, the developers weren't sure if the anti-piracy software would have unforeseen consequences, so they built in a mechanism for shutting it down.
I agree that p2p sharing is outside the scope of the proposed labeling scheme (and not automatically fair use). However, software that 'phones home' to ensure that it is only installed once, and cannot therefore be resold, violates the principle of fair use, and should be clearly labeled as such.
Number 2 is still important. Once you purchase a CD, you should be allowed to sell that CD to a used-CD store, or to a friend, or to a stranger on eBay. This CD is being distributed to a new party, aka redistributed. This is legal, and part of the point of copyright law.
I hadn't heard about this ('cause I spent yesterday building a play structure, not surfin' the 'net), so thank you for the information. However, nothing I read in 3 articles found using Google indicated anything about Internet surveillance. Could you please provide a reference?
I agree that this situation is hard to anticipate. However, I think it's poor design not to support both the keyboard and the mouse.
PS: Turning off the lightning ball wasn't an option (it was a demo intended to get people to buy one), but the solution was simply to move the lightning ball a few feet away.
The regulations should control how much you can buy.
Yeah, we tried that. As a result of the lame-ass Patriot Act, allergy sufferers must tie their schedule to that of the pharmacy. Consider the following:
Thanks to Asscraft, each person is limited to purchasing 9g of pseudoephedrine every 30 days.
A 30 day supply of Allegra-D contains 7.2g.
You must present a government-issued ID to purchase Allegra-D.
Imagine a family in which both parents have allergies, as does their 14-year-old daughter.
The family needs 21.6g of pseudoephedrine, but are limited to purchasing 18g.
I guess allergies are about as unpatriotic as you can get.
Mac OS through version 9 did quite well with no command line whatsoever.
Perhaps it's an extreme case, but back in 1997 or 1998 I was doing tech service for Macs. These units were used as kiosks in music and novelty stores. The kiosks shipped with a keyboard, but no mouse, because they had a touch-screen to serve as the pointing device. Well, in one store they had one of those globes that creates 'lightning' when you touch it. This gizmo wreaked havoc with the capacitors in the touch-screen, as if someone were randomly touching it. Debugging this interference was a collosal pain because there's no easy way to get to a command line.
The interview is a few years old now, so I don't know how well the numbers hold up, but Jim Gray suggests that the postal service was a far cheaper mechanism for transferring terabytes of scientific data than any Internet: ACM interview.
The semantic web is a step up from XML. In an XML document, there is a great deal of information implicitly stored in the structure of the document. A human is (often) able to guess what the implied relationship is between the parent element and the child element, but machines are still poor at guessing. By making the relationship explicit (using RDF) a machine has a better chance of identifying the nature of the relationship. Of course, you still need standard tags, but it's easier to talk about named relationships rather than tacit relationships. (And my dissertation revolved around building Semantic Web infrastructure in a peer-to-peer setting.)
Sorry guys, but you're probably not going to find your answer online. You will probably need to contact the state comptroller's office and request a county-by-county breakdown (which you should be able to obtain under the Freedom of Information Act). Then, you're going to have to run your own numbers. However, once you're done, you will find out that New York City generates more than it consumes. I say this with confidence because every study that compares urban areas to rural areas ends up with the same conclusion. This includes my own study of Seattle compared to the rest of Washington.
Double taxation disappears only when there's an explicit reciprocity agreement, or the state decides not to collect taxes on income taxed by another state. Virginia, if I understand correctly, has just such a clause. I live in Maryland, and pay income tax in Maryland, even though I work in Virginia. However, that's only because Virginia decided that this arrangement is okay.
Hear, hear. About two years ago I was so sick of hearing how rural taxes were supporting decadent King County (Washington) that I obtained a county-by-county breakdown from the state of a) income and b) expenses. The only county to contribute more money to the state coffers than it received in benefits was King County (an urban county). The rural counties were all subsidized by we urbanites. Unlike the tax-whiners, though, I think this is fine. I'm happy to subsidize rural areas because I happen to be addicted to food.
However, by locking the data into a spreadsheet, reuse is much harder. By organizing the data in a database it is easier to combine results in new ways.
Determining what is (and is not) a gene is hard work. We know a number of rules (such as the aforementioned it must start with ATG), but these rules are largely of the form, if X is a gene then X has the following properties. These implications cannot be simply reversed; i.e., not all instances of ATG mark the start of a gene.
In simpler organisms, you can simply scan for open-reading frames (i.e., instances of ATG) and keep reading until you hit a stop codon because there is no post-processing of the transcribed RNA. If the result has a reasonable length, you've probably found a gene.
In complex organisms, once the RNA is transcribed, portions of the RNA are removed (spliced out). Thus, there could be a stop codon in the middle of the gene that is removed prior to translation. The splicing process is why certain repeated sequences are needed as filler material. During splicing the RNA strand has to be bent to bring the two ends together. In, for example, the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) if you don't have enough repeats, it is less likely that splicing will occur properly.
There's actually a more involved theory: It is well established that every food tastes more or less like chicken. It is less widely publicized that every food has a chicken-inverse. If you take a food that tastes more like chicken and combine it with its chicken-inverse (which necessarily tastes less like chicken), the result tastes exactly like chicken.
This theory has some interesting ramifications. For example, the food that tastes most like chicken is clearly chicken. Now, if you combine chicken with more chicken, the result tastes exactly like chicken. Thus, the chicken-inverse of chicken is... chicken! It logically follows that chicken tastes least like chicken (or less formally, chicken tastes nothing like chicken).
At first this phenomenon seems like a logical conundrum. How can chicken taste nothing like chicken? Well, as a parent of a young child, I've tasted enough Chicken McNuggets (TM) to know that chicken often tastes nothing like chicken.
Thanks for the pointer, though after skimming that section, I think that the start tag is a whole lot easier than using counters. I'll need to familiarize myself with the:before option.
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Ah, my bad. I concede that it's possible for car costs to exceed mortgage costs (although those should also include insurance and property taxes).
Over the last decade, though, my car costs (loan, gas, insurance, maintenance) have been a third of my housing costs (mortgage, property tax, insurance, but not maintenance). Oh, BTW, $15,600 per year gets you a $235,420.37 30-year mortgage at 5.25%. That won't get you much house in the DC area (and garbage in the San Francisco area, unless the market's collapsed in the last year).
How many times must this be shouted down?
$15,600 for a house! Not anywhere remotely close to an urban center. Hell, in the DC area, show me a house for $156,000 and I'll show you a sewer or landfill. A quick search on realtor.com shows one property for less than $150,000. It has 2 bedrooms, 0.05 acres and is a "Fixer-upper/handyman special."
Someone else has already squished (2), so allow me to reference information pertaining to the use of highways as landing strips.
Um, 17% of $37 billion is roughly $6.3 billion. The current population on the planet is roughly 6.6 billion people. That works out to 95 cents each, a far cry from a million dollars. Assuming a 10% rate of return, if you were to invest that money, it would take more than 145 years to reach $1 million. Of course, the $25 transaction fee would more than eradicate the 95 cents.
I agree, the US government spends 49% of its discretionary funds on the department of defense. That amount needs to be A) reduced dramatically and B) transitioned to local defense spending.
Or are you referring to the 1% identified by the Citizens Against Government Waste as pork. This group deliberately uses a pretty loose definition of pork, and that's what they've managed to identify.
But this isn't just banning 'snuff film games'. The article indicates the bill would also ban a game that "depicts lead characters who resort to violence freely." Almost without fail, when Lara Croft encounters a moving target (animal or human), she pulls out a pistol (or two) and blows it away. Sounds like a lead character who resorts to violence freely. Yet, Tomb Raider is one of my six-year-old daughter's favorite games. (And she hasn't yet tried to shoot anyone IRL.) Nope, this bill is poorly written, and I trust will not pass constitutional muster.
My chief problem with this application is that I don't want somebody else organizing my financial data for me. I want my spreadsheets on my machine, backed up onto my external media, and not shared with anyone. (Except the darned IRS keeps insisting otherwise!) Do people really use a financial tool for so many other tasks that Google has a hit on its hands? Or perhaps most people are willing to share their finances with Google? (Wow, the targeted ads this would facilitate! Or even a Google Assistant called Gippy(TM): "I see you are almost broke, can I recommend a pawn broker?")
What gave you the impression that this article pertains to 'remote deauthorization' or 'unlegitimization' of Windows? TFA describes how the anti-piracy tool can be shut down remotely. Basically, the developers weren't sure if the anti-piracy software would have unforeseen consequences, so they built in a mechanism for shutting it down.
I agree that p2p sharing is outside the scope of the proposed labeling scheme (and not automatically fair use). However, software that 'phones home' to ensure that it is only installed once, and cannot therefore be resold, violates the principle of fair use, and should be clearly labeled as such.
Thanks, this article is much more informative than anything else I saw.
Number 2 is still important. Once you purchase a CD, you should be allowed to sell that CD to a used-CD store, or to a friend, or to a stranger on eBay. This CD is being distributed to a new party, aka redistributed. This is legal, and part of the point of copyright law.
I hadn't heard about this ('cause I spent yesterday building a play structure, not surfin' the 'net), so thank you for the information. However, nothing I read in 3 articles found using Google indicated anything about Internet surveillance. Could you please provide a reference?
I agree that this situation is hard to anticipate. However, I think it's poor design not to support both the keyboard and the mouse. PS: Turning off the lightning ball wasn't an option (it was a demo intended to get people to buy one), but the solution was simply to move the lightning ball a few feet away.
The regulations should control how much you can buy.
Yeah, we tried that. As a result of the lame-ass Patriot Act, allergy sufferers must tie their schedule to that of the pharmacy. Consider the following:
I guess allergies are about as unpatriotic as you can get.
Mac OS through version 9 did quite well with no command line whatsoever.
Perhaps it's an extreme case, but back in 1997 or 1998 I was doing tech service for Macs. These units were used as kiosks in music and novelty stores. The kiosks shipped with a keyboard, but no mouse, because they had a touch-screen to serve as the pointing device. Well, in one store they had one of those globes that creates 'lightning' when you touch it. This gizmo wreaked havoc with the capacitors in the touch-screen, as if someone were randomly touching it. Debugging this interference was a collosal pain because there's no easy way to get to a command line.
The interview is a few years old now, so I don't know how well the numbers hold up, but Jim Gray suggests that the postal service was a far cheaper mechanism for transferring terabytes of scientific data than any Internet: ACM interview.
The semantic web is a step up from XML. In an XML document, there is a great deal of information implicitly stored in the structure of the document. A human is (often) able to guess what the implied relationship is between the parent element and the child element, but machines are still poor at guessing. By making the relationship explicit (using RDF) a machine has a better chance of identifying the nature of the relationship. Of course, you still need standard tags, but it's easier to talk about named relationships rather than tacit relationships. (And my dissertation revolved around building Semantic Web infrastructure in a peer-to-peer setting.)
Sorry guys, but you're probably not going to find your answer online. You will probably need to contact the state comptroller's office and request a county-by-county breakdown (which you should be able to obtain under the Freedom of Information Act). Then, you're going to have to run your own numbers. However, once you're done, you will find out that New York City generates more than it consumes. I say this with confidence because every study that compares urban areas to rural areas ends up with the same conclusion. This includes my own study of Seattle compared to the rest of Washington.
Double taxation disappears only when there's an explicit reciprocity agreement, or the state decides not to collect taxes on income taxed by another state. Virginia, if I understand correctly, has just such a clause. I live in Maryland, and pay income tax in Maryland, even though I work in Virginia. However, that's only because Virginia decided that this arrangement is okay.
Hear, hear. About two years ago I was so sick of hearing how rural taxes were supporting decadent King County (Washington) that I obtained a county-by-county breakdown from the state of a) income and b) expenses. The only county to contribute more money to the state coffers than it received in benefits was King County (an urban county). The rural counties were all subsidized by we urbanites. Unlike the tax-whiners, though, I think this is fine. I'm happy to subsidize rural areas because I happen to be addicted to food.
However, by locking the data into a spreadsheet, reuse is much harder. By organizing the data in a database it is easier to combine results in new ways.
Determining what is (and is not) a gene is hard work. We know a number of rules (such as the aforementioned it must start with ATG), but these rules are largely of the form, if X is a gene then X has the following properties. These implications cannot be simply reversed; i.e., not all instances of ATG mark the start of a gene.
In simpler organisms, you can simply scan for open-reading frames (i.e., instances of ATG) and keep reading until you hit a stop codon because there is no post-processing of the transcribed RNA. If the result has a reasonable length, you've probably found a gene.
In complex organisms, once the RNA is transcribed, portions of the RNA are removed (spliced out). Thus, there could be a stop codon in the middle of the gene that is removed prior to translation. The splicing process is why certain repeated sequences are needed as filler material. During splicing the RNA strand has to be bent to bring the two ends together. In, for example, the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) if you don't have enough repeats, it is less likely that splicing will occur properly.
There's actually a more involved theory: It is well established that every food tastes more or less like chicken. It is less widely publicized that every food has a chicken-inverse. If you take a food that tastes more like chicken and combine it with its chicken-inverse (which necessarily tastes less like chicken), the result tastes exactly like chicken.
This theory has some interesting ramifications. For example, the food that tastes most like chicken is clearly chicken. Now, if you combine chicken with more chicken, the result tastes exactly like chicken. Thus, the chicken-inverse of chicken is ... chicken! It logically follows that chicken tastes least like chicken (or less formally, chicken tastes nothing like chicken).
At first this phenomenon seems like a logical conundrum. How can chicken taste nothing like chicken? Well, as a parent of a young child, I've tasted enough Chicken McNuggets (TM) to know that chicken often tastes nothing like chicken.
Thanks for the pointer, though after skimming that section, I think that the start tag is a whole lot easier than using counters. I'll need to familiarize myself with the :before option.