The senior legislators have absolutely no idea about what is internet. They think it is a series of tubes and have a bevy of secretaries and aides who would print out the emails and show it to them. There is no hope till the present day youngsters who grew up with internet and IM become the senior legislators and judges. Till then, just relax sit back, get a bucket of pop corn and watch the damn charade.
Liability is always an issue and with enough backing and some lobbying in DC it can be overcome.
I saw the tow along range extender picture, in acpropulsion site. Looks cool.
The article I read claimed 80% efficiency. I will continue looking for the article, and post a link if I can find one. If anyone else has seen that information, I would be grateful for a link.
If you believe that, I would like to sell you a bridge in New York.
Yeah, the Hydrogen will be produced without any pollution and in a manner more efficient than current electricity generation.
Hydrogen is the smoke and mirrors used by Big Oil an Big Motor companies to keep selling IC engines.
Anyway good news is, these big companies out sourced so much of the technology and production techniques the genie is out of the Detroit bottle. Some small manufacturer will put together a package that will beat the heck out of the big Three. If we are lucky that will be an American company. It could easily be a Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian or an European company.
I wonder if companies are thinking about adding an optional dolly to these electric vehicles. IT does not make sense for the Tesla roadster, but for other cars it might make sense. These dollies can carry
additional batteries to extend the range. Or they can carry a genset and a fuel tank to make
electricity as they go. The fuel could gasoline, diesel, propane, vegetable oil, alcohol... anything
Presently there is a mental block like, "someday I may have to go more than 30 or 40 miles and what
am I going to do if I run out of juice?". If a network of franchises spring up that will rent these
dollies then more people would be receptive to the idea of purely electric vehicles. One can be purely
on the grid for daily commute and simple errands. On the weekends/holidays where extra range is needed
I would rent a dolly.
The steady state power consumption for most cars on the highway is around 40 or less I estimate. How
big would be a 40HP genset? Small enough to be towed without serious impact on the handling?
Come on, this is not a fair test. When I go to bookmarks/open all in tabs in a folder, I usually open anywhere between 18 to 30 tabs. In fact the first thing I do is to open all the editorial cartoons bookmark folder under "open all in tabs". By the time I am done with email, I will have the 21 cartoons ready to be perused.
BTW I never found old FireFox's memory consumption as annoying as intransigence of some sites in refusing to support Firefox and the lax/laisse-faire coding for IE only. May be because at work I usually have a couple of four processor 16GB machine for development/testing. I used to have a dedicated 2GB machine exclusively for Firefox. But that old machine's hard disk started squealing with an annoying noise so I had to throw it away. Even at home with my puny 512MB 4 year old desktop or the 1GB 2 year old laptop I get by without any serious memory issues.
What really would matter is, are there PC makers who would pre install Firefox at the factory? They throw in so much of crapware but not Firefox, GIMP and OpenOffice. Why? Is Mozilla foundation working with any vendor to preinstall it?
The steadfast refusal by the major vendors to pre install Firefox, the public apathy in not demanding Firefox is quite disturbing. These major PC vendors, really don't like to compete on price alone. Brand differentiation is
a big thing for them. But why do they try the differentiation in cooler looking towers, better colored blinking
lights or designer color boxes? Why are they not selling, "Our product has FireFox, the fastest growing popular browser!!". If the vendors are looking for Brand differentiation, security is a big thing. They can really set themselves apart. If nothing it gives them something to say in their advertisements. It is like the Hound of Baskervilles. It is the dog that did not bark that makes me think, may be there is something to the conspiracy theories.
The basic idea is not to demand that the year be an integral number of days. The New Year will be "born" at varying times of the day. I clearly remember my mom cooking up the New Years feast and then waiting patiently for the new Year to be born, which would shift by about 6 hours every year. The Hindu calender will state the next new year, "Sowmiyan" or "Sadharanan" (there are 60 named years) will be born at 1:06 PM or 7:36AM or whatever. Typical South Indian New Year will begin on April 14 for about three years (like 7AM, 1PM, 7PM) and on April 15 (1AM) for a year and then the leap year in western calender will bring it back to April 14.
Well, when I am standing at the bus stop waiting for a bus, I reasonably expect some 30 or 40 people currently I can see could see me. I reasonably expect a million people are not watching me and what happened there would not come back to haunt me 10 years from now.
So is the "reasonable expectation of privacy" a digital thing? All or nothing? People behave differently when three, thirty, three hundred or three million people are watching them.
Looks like they can't directly blame C# for not releasing memory while they are still holding references to the supposedly deletable objects. But I have seen appallingly low understanding of OO principles among the candidates I interview who had grown up in C# environment. My big grouse is that
even in C++ Visual Studio and.NET IDEs inhibit a big "picture" understanding of large and complex code. The number of times I had to berate newbies for including afx.h in a "platform independent" base class headers...
You are correct in saying though the cash is paid by the advertisers and product placers, unless the content delivers eyeballs, it is not going to sell anything.
The current business model is that the viewers pay with their time, the time they watch unwanted portions of the broadcast. And a few pay with actual dollars, pay per view, DVDs etc. But those who pay with money are swamped out by those who pay with their time. As it is the internet pipes are getting fatter and pretty soon it will be possible to stream in all the content one wants to watch through the internet connection, may not be in real time, but in something like a DVR or AppleTV that downloads content is will show you when you are ready. As people desert the pay-with-your-time model and switches to pay-with-dollars model, there will be a seismic shift in the broadcast TV industry.
Income distribution is very skewed. 80% of the income is with the top 20% of the people. The disposable income is even more skewed. 90% of all the disposable income in the country is in the hands of 10% of the people. If the broadcast TV loses just the top 10% by disposable income viewers to internet-to-dvr model, the remaining viewership will be 90% of the original by numbers, but with just one tenth of the purchasing power. 10 years from now, the broadcast TV industry will be just a pale shadow of what it is today. The big money is in the
content-producers to dvr via the internet model. Content producers will have to be wooed over. Apple is trying
with iTunes and AppleTV and other content sale business. MSFT is muscling in. That is why there is this fight
to carve the field into mutually incompatible DRMs to lock in a steady revenue stream.
You are mistaken in thinking the person who bought all that and wants to watch the TV program is the customer. Sorry. You are wrong. That person is the product. The advertisers and content owners who want to protect it using ever increasing amount of DRM is the customer. Got it? Now it all makes sense, doesn't it?
The company that made mouse an integral part of personal computer also makes all the OSes named like panther, tiger and leopard. So I am not surprised the mouse does not fear the cat. Aren't mice intelligently designed by Steve Jobs?
Well, you have nothing to hide. You don't have to worry if the Dems get the senate and congressional committee chairpersonship and the subpoena powers that go with it, what they will find if they trawl through your mail. Now tell me why would they not think it is a good idea to erase the trail? Especially when they can say very innocently "oops" and there are enough people who would pretend to believe them.
She said she has seen some news reports that some court has ordered the White House to preserve all emails, mails and such records. But she has checked her emails just a minute ago and there is no such order there.
More clarifications. The real gain of the same day sale does not trigger AMT by itself. But if the profit is so high, and it pushes your AGI over the limit, then it will trigger AMT. But even with AMT you are paying taxes on the actual money that came to your pocket. Not based on some paper gain. On the other hand, if your income is small enough and the profit is small enough, even under AMT calculation, you might not pay additional taxes. In that case, it is a straight forward, 33% income tax vs 20% capital gains tax question. Provide you are able to sell it at the same price a year from now.
You lucky son of a gun! You don't know what Alternative Minimum Tax is! I long for those simple days.
Long time ago, sometime in 1960s, many rich millionaires were using many tax avoidance schemes to avoid paying any taxes. So they introduced what they called an Alternative Minimum Tax. It used to hit people making more than 150K a year in 1960s. But they did not index the trigger to inflation. It is the same 150K a year today. Strictly speaking tax meant for people making more than half a mill a year are hitting most middle class now.
If you exercise the stock option and sell immediately, you are paying taxes on the real gains. Since you held the instrument for less than one year (less than one day really) your gains will be deemed to be income and you will pay income tax. If you exercise and hold the stock for a year and then sell you will only pay capital gains tax on the real gain. So it is tempting to exercise, and hold the stock for a year and sell saving on taxes.
But, when you exercise the stock, the difference between market price and the exercise price is counted as your "gain" for the purposes of Alternative Minimum Tax. Though you have not sold anything and you have not seen any money and the gain is merely a paper gain, it is counted as taxable for AMT. If you follow this path and pay the AMT and the stock falls and you sell it at a lower price, you can claim a loss. You cost basis for the stock will the market price used in AMT calculation. So if it falls you could recover the excess tax you have paid. But still it is not a simple calculation of 33% income tax vs 20% capital gains tax. It is 33% tax in AMT + 20% capital gains on further gains in the next year or 100% of the loss in the next year. It is more complex to calculate and judge.
Play it simple, get money into your pocket and pay the tax on actual realized gain.
Slashdot Mirror
The solar cells will reflect light and write "www.sanmarcos.island.com" on the clouds.
If a slashhack can think of these, imagine what ubergooglegeek can think of!!!
The senior legislators have absolutely no idea about what is internet. They think it is a series of tubes and have a bevy of secretaries and aides who would print out the emails and show it to them. There is no hope till the present day youngsters who grew up with internet and IM become the senior legislators and judges. Till then, just relax sit back, get a bucket of pop corn and watch the damn charade.
Nah. I am waiting for "Make Your Own Ebola Virus" kit. Hours of endless fun. I see them being advertised right next to those sea monkeys.
They are going to sue everyone in sight claiming their clients have been damaged because others looked at them in a funny way.
No, Just dial 911 and put the phone in the pocket of the bully who had been tormenting you for years.
Liability is always an issue and with enough backing and some lobbying in DC it can be overcome. I saw the tow along range extender picture, in acpropulsion site. Looks cool.
If you believe that, I would like to sell you a bridge in New York.
Hydrogen is the smoke and mirrors used by Big Oil an Big Motor companies to keep selling IC engines. Anyway good news is, these big companies out sourced so much of the technology and production techniques the genie is out of the Detroit bottle. Some small manufacturer will put together a package that will beat the heck out of the big Three. If we are lucky that will be an American company. It could easily be a Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian or an European company.
Presently there is a mental block like, "someday I may have to go more than 30 or 40 miles and what am I going to do if I run out of juice?". If a network of franchises spring up that will rent these dollies then more people would be receptive to the idea of purely electric vehicles. One can be purely on the grid for daily commute and simple errands. On the weekends/holidays where extra range is needed I would rent a dolly.
The steady state power consumption for most cars on the highway is around 40 or less I estimate. How big would be a 40HP genset? Small enough to be towed without serious impact on the handling?
BTW I never found old FireFox's memory consumption as annoying as intransigence of some sites in refusing to support Firefox and the lax/laisse-faire coding for IE only. May be because at work I usually have a couple of four processor 16GB machine for development/testing. I used to have a dedicated 2GB machine exclusively for Firefox. But that old machine's hard disk started squealing with an annoying noise so I had to throw it away. Even at home with my puny 512MB 4 year old desktop or the 1GB 2 year old laptop I get by without any serious memory issues.
Thanks, I stand corrected.
The steadfast refusal by the major vendors to pre install Firefox, the public apathy in not demanding Firefox is quite disturbing. These major PC vendors, really don't like to compete on price alone. Brand differentiation is a big thing for them. But why do they try the differentiation in cooler looking towers, better colored blinking lights or designer color boxes? Why are they not selling, "Our product has FireFox, the fastest growing popular browser!!". If the vendors are looking for Brand differentiation, security is a big thing. They can really set themselves apart. If nothing it gives them something to say in their advertisements. It is like the Hound of Baskervilles. It is the dog that did not bark that makes me think, may be there is something to the conspiracy theories.
Woo! Woo! Get on to the bandwagon fast. Kabul is going to be the Cancer Cure Capital of the World!!!
The basic idea is not to demand that the year be an integral number of days. The New Year will be "born" at varying times of the day. I clearly remember my mom cooking up the New Years feast and then waiting patiently for the new Year to be born, which would shift by about 6 hours every year. The Hindu calender will state the next new year, "Sowmiyan" or "Sadharanan" (there are 60 named years) will be born at 1:06 PM or 7:36AM or whatever. Typical South Indian New Year will begin on April 14 for about three years (like 7AM, 1PM, 7PM) and on April 15 (1AM) for a year and then the leap year in western calender will bring it back to April 14.
So is the "reasonable expectation of privacy" a digital thing? All or nothing? People behave differently when three, thirty, three hundred or three million people are watching them.
Not True! We have been to Iraq, Kuwait, Afganistan, Panama ... Soon we will be going to Iran, Pakistan... What rot these guys are talkin' 'bout?
Looks like they can't directly blame C# for not releasing memory while they are still holding references to the supposedly deletable objects. But I have seen appallingly low understanding of OO principles among the candidates I interview who had grown up in C# environment. My big grouse is that even in C++ Visual Studio and .NET IDEs inhibit a big "picture" understanding of large and complex code. The number of times I had to berate newbies for including afx.h in a "platform independent" base class headers ...
The current business model is that the viewers pay with their time, the time they watch unwanted portions of the broadcast. And a few pay with actual dollars, pay per view, DVDs etc. But those who pay with money are swamped out by those who pay with their time. As it is the internet pipes are getting fatter and pretty soon it will be possible to stream in all the content one wants to watch through the internet connection, may not be in real time, but in something like a DVR or AppleTV that downloads content is will show you when you are ready. As people desert the pay-with-your-time model and switches to pay-with-dollars model, there will be a seismic shift in the broadcast TV industry.
Income distribution is very skewed. 80% of the income is with the top 20% of the people. The disposable income is even more skewed. 90% of all the disposable income in the country is in the hands of 10% of the people. If the broadcast TV loses just the top 10% by disposable income viewers to internet-to-dvr model, the remaining viewership will be 90% of the original by numbers, but with just one tenth of the purchasing power. 10 years from now, the broadcast TV industry will be just a pale shadow of what it is today. The big money is in the content-producers to dvr via the internet model. Content producers will have to be wooed over. Apple is trying with iTunes and AppleTV and other content sale business. MSFT is muscling in. That is why there is this fight to carve the field into mutually incompatible DRMs to lock in a steady revenue stream.
You are mistaken in thinking the person who bought all that and wants to watch the TV program is the customer. Sorry. You are wrong. That person is the product. The advertisers and content owners who want to protect it using ever increasing amount of DRM is the customer. Got it? Now it all makes sense, doesn't it?
The company that made mouse an integral part of personal computer also makes all the OSes named like panther, tiger and leopard. So I am not surprised the mouse does not fear the cat. Aren't mice intelligently designed by Steve Jobs?
Well, you have nothing to hide. You don't have to worry if the Dems get the senate and congressional committee chairpersonship and the subpoena powers that go with it, what they will find if they trawl through your mail. Now tell me why would they not think it is a good idea to erase the trail? Especially when they can say very innocently "oops" and there are enough people who would pretend to believe them.
She said she has seen some news reports that some court has ordered the White House to preserve all emails, mails and such records. But she has checked her emails just a minute ago and there is no such order there.
More clarifications. The real gain of the same day sale does not trigger AMT by itself. But if the profit is so high, and it pushes your AGI over the limit, then it will trigger AMT. But even with AMT you are paying taxes on the actual money that came to your pocket. Not based on some paper gain. On the other hand, if your income is small enough and the profit is small enough, even under AMT calculation, you might not pay additional taxes. In that case, it is a straight forward, 33% income tax vs 20% capital gains tax question. Provide you are able to sell it at the same price a year from now.
Long time ago, sometime in 1960s, many rich millionaires were using many tax avoidance schemes to avoid paying any taxes. So they introduced what they called an Alternative Minimum Tax. It used to hit people making more than 150K a year in 1960s. But they did not index the trigger to inflation. It is the same 150K a year today. Strictly speaking tax meant for people making more than half a mill a year are hitting most middle class now.
But, when you exercise the stock, the difference between market price and the exercise price is counted as your "gain" for the purposes of Alternative Minimum Tax. Though you have not sold anything and you have not seen any money and the gain is merely a paper gain, it is counted as taxable for AMT. If you follow this path and pay the AMT and the stock falls and you sell it at a lower price, you can claim a loss. You cost basis for the stock will the market price used in AMT calculation. So if it falls you could recover the excess tax you have paid. But still it is not a simple calculation of 33% income tax vs 20% capital gains tax. It is 33% tax in AMT + 20% capital gains on further gains in the next year or 100% of the loss in the next year. It is more complex to calculate and judge. Play it simple, get money into your pocket and pay the tax on actual realized gain.