Why are people cribbing about powerpoint being bad? I have seen people make these things called "papers". They download things like the style files from American Math Society or something and use some software created by Donal Knuth called TeX or by Leslie Lamport called LaTeX. Lots and lots of Greek and Latin and strange symbols and unreadable things. They are extremely bad and they dont communicate anything useful to me.
Of course, it has nothing whatsoever with my ability to understand or the ability of the author to communicate, it all the fault of the tool used.
There is govt waste and inefficiency. But the original poster was not making a case for eradicating inefficiency. (S)he was saying things like, "you dont own property in USA because you are obliged to pay taxes which is same as not owning anything but paying rent".
The taxes you pay protect your property directly by the police force. The local govt maintains the proof that you own the property. It maintains the infrasturcture that allows you to ward off intruders and usurpers without having to resort to violent means. If you own some land in Sudan or Angola you will realize how much of a benefit it is to just live in your home without having worry if a local warlord will evict you and take over your property.
What is the value of your property? It is largely the amount someone would be willing to pay for it. And laws like truth-in-lending, fairness clauses and the thriving economy increases the buying power of people that directly enhances the value of your property.
Considering it all, see if the amount taxed from you for your property is less than the value created to you by the Government. If the tax is less than the value created by the Govt, shut up and pay it. Dont make snide comments like "paying property tax means I dont own it and I am only renting it." Making such a statement shows the shallow grasp of economics and civics.
I dont know how big are these patches, but with everyone from Microsoft, Apple-itunes, Firefox, Sun-Java and Norton anti-virus continuously and constantly pushing down "security updates" down the tubes I wonder how much bandwidth is left for normal surfing?
Very true. I am an Indian American and if any immigrant group into India becomes as successful in India as Indians have been in USA, there will be riots in the streets.
Just look at the hostility shown to the South Indians (disparagingly refrred to as the Madrasees) by the people of Delhi. Or the "sons of the soil" policies advocated by Shiv Sena in Bombay which is just thinly veiled antogonism shown to the educated South Indians getting plum jobs there. Not that the South Indians are paragons of virtue. My own native place lumps all North Indians as "marwadis", though Marwar is just one district in Rajasthan. Most North Indian are businessmen but political parties paint them to be money lending Shylocks.
I will say it once more, Indian Americans household median income is around 60K$, compared to some 52K for the Whites, 45K for the blacks and 42K for the hispanics. If this happened in India, the succesful group would have been hounded mercilessly and demonized for political purposes.
You really think all taxes are bad and all govt is bad? Or are you whoring to get mod points?
Learn these basic things about civics. Govt, by its mere, presence adds value to your property. The general law and order, enforcement of contracts, truth-in-labeling laws, truth-in-lending laws etc foster the climate the create value. Just think, how valuable your home will be if it is wrenched out of USA and plunked smack-dab-in-the-middle of Darfar, Sudan. The property tax there is probably 0. So before you mouth off, "govt is bad and zero tax is the fair tax" just remember that it just shows how shallow your comprehension of the world is.
Just because Hitler had a notion that is vaguely similar to mine, does not mean I am going to go postal on Jews tomorrow. FYKI, during the second world war, there were two very famous vegetarians. One was, of course, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leading India's freedome struggle. The other one? None other than your dear friend Adolf Hitler. Now are you going to mouth off, "Vegetarianism is a philosophy strongly followed by Adolf Hitler" to justify pigging out on the half-pound MonsterBurger(TM)?
What is better? Bunch of politicians saying, "We cant allow $this_thing to go on in our civilized society" and proscribing activities? Or people see the consequences of gambling away their nest eggs and forced to beg on the streets and making despo plea for help from the near and dear? If you give the politicians an inch, they take a mile.
Nothing will teach the society gambling is a tax on mathematically challenged till blood suckers come in and suck a few dry openly, publicly and for all to see.
If people want to fritter away their life savings on gambling or the stock market or the housing boom or rare coins or "ideas to earn 4000$ a week staying at home" they should be allowed to. If they lose it all and end up in the streets, they will be examples for others. But of course, they will clog up the emergency rooms and drive up my health insurance permium.
I would rather open up gambling and free the hospitals from having to treat all comers whether or not they can pay for care. If we free people from the consequences of their actions, then you short circuit the feedback loop.
I did not download their 3D viewing software. But that company's (DSS's) main business is CAD/CAM software. They bought Spatial, the devlopers of ACIS geometry kernel. They have also bought Uniras/CATIA. I have been working with their geometry kernel for more than 10 years. As a geometry modeling company they are quite decent. Dont know about their 3D viewing software through a browser idea. Without OpenGL it is impossible to render the geometry under reasonable timeframe. When I connect to my office machine from home through VPN, OpenGL rendering gets replaced by software rendering through broadband. Absolutely, horribly slow.
Many universities are holding back on Vista because of compatibility issues with Blackboard software. Many companies find there is no urgent "must get" feature in Vista, and due to compatibility issues they too are having a moratorium on new purchases. And all the big PC vendors have completely retooled and are not selling XPs anymore. Now a days they dont make PCs before they sell, so there wont be too much of unsold PCs on the warehouses. But the parts do pile up. This might actually pressure the companies like Dell to sell naked PCs. But ultimately people will relent and start using Vista. Is there going to be an active market for XP licenses? Will WGA prevent people from buying ne naked PCs and loading old XP licenses?
The port by definition will be above the waterline. How did you go from "we need the port" to "we need to build and maintain levees to protect homes built 14 feet below sea level? If that port generates that much traffic, the commerce will pay for the building and maintenance of it. They can charge toll to the barges and build the port. Leave my taxes alone. Please.
Well, almost every American, including almost all the smokers agree that tobacco is bad for them. Still 25% of the Americans smoke. So even if you prove that belief in God will degrade their health and probably kill them sooner, you could expect 25% of the Americans to continue to believe in God. Since the position of atheists is that God does not exist, and it is logical to conclude what does not exist cant hurt you, God scoring at 48% is not much of a surprise.
AFAIC I am not worried or alarmed by people believing in God or being agnostic or even atheistic. I am far more worried about people blindly following an ideology, be it communism, be it islamic terrorism or be it blind faith demanded by many churches. Fortunately communism is in the dust heap of history and the power of church over the population has been in decline for a long time. I just wish the churches will leave science alone and pick its fight with an equal adversary, the islamic terrorists.
Musicmatch was a free software. When you give something away, you have all the right to change what you give away. That is what Musicmatch did. Infact it is nothing more than the right of companies to increase the price of their products as they deem fit. Google maps are free. They have all the right to change what they give away or start charging for it. You, as a consumer, have the right not to buy the product if it is not worth what you are paying for it. But as the age old saying goes, beggars cant be choosers.
Google Earth imagery is worth every penny you paid for it. You paid zero pennies for it and so at this point, you take what they give you or go use an alternative services. Both yahoo and msft are also offering sattelite imagery. Feel free to use them. But if you want to be guaranteed that the imagery you get is the most uptodate and accurate one, be prepared shell out some real money.
I remember way back in Music Match V6.0 something that allowed mp3 file encoding from line in. I was using it to encode my old cassette tapes into mp3 to get them into my hard disk. Almost all my friends wanted to do it and when they downloaded the latest vestion of it, some V6.x, it had been taken out. Luckily I had not yet deleted the old ftp'ed zip file and I gave them to my friends. Despite all the hassles I never thought I had the right to demand MusicMatch to put back the line-in encoding functionality. It is their product, they do what they think is the best for them. How did that congress critter convince himself that one has the right to demand google to do this and not that?
What next? Would the congress demand Intuit to put back the QIF file import capability in Quicketn 2007. (They took it out in 2005). Demand Toyota to go back to using 18 spot welds on the spare tire well of the Camry instead of the 12? Would they demand Pittsbugh Plate Glass to go back to making 0.5 inch thick windshields instead of the present 0.25 inch thick ones? Today's Car Talk mentioned it.
Isn't the refrain, "They dont make it the way they used to" goes back a long ways? I dont know about google and toyota and PPG, but definitely in congress, they dont make them the way they used to. It looks like.
It is the FORCE of gravity, not tug. Not when you are talkin' about the Pod Race Capital of the universe. At a stretch you could call the Millenium Falcon a tug, but not what gravity exerts.
I glance through the article. It says there is going to be a heavier penalty for infringement. It does not say very clearly non commercial use will not be considered piracy.
It is with great humbleness I seek your indulgence, Sir. My name is Ai Cheet Yu, barrister-at-law in Hong Kong. Some three days ago a man with your respected surname was killed in the game of Dragon of Death, v 3.6. He had deposited a sum of 37 billion QQ coins in a trust with our well respected law firm. By law after 3 days I have to turn the QQ coins over to the unclaimed propety department.
Sir, here is my plan. I suggest I present you as the next of kin and claim the QQ coins, which we can share at 30% for me, 60% to you and 10% to bribe the party officials in Beijing.
Hoping, the well respected person like you will not forget the timely help rendered by this humble servant and reward me with your most esteemed cooperation, Please contact me for proceeding further.
What do you think has changed in the last ten years to make it viable now?
1. Price of hardware. Has dropped significantly
2. Someone with deep pockets who has already bought humoungous amount of bandwidth at bargain basement prices.
3. Cable/Telcos forming cartels to keep broadband prices artificially high and thwarting Metro WiFi even in areas where they dont provide service, like extended suburbs, rural areas and smaller towns. The law prohibits governments from providing wifi, but it cant stop a private company from offering one
4. Google could sell broadband at cost, which is next to nothing because it bought the bandwidth at bargain basement prices after the bubble burst, the monthly fee is just to recoup the cost of hardware.
The price of a basic PC, with just enough power to do browsing, email, a little bit of photoshop and screen shows and minor word processing has come under 200$ at bulk price. It is not inconceivable that some DSL/broadband company would not give it away for a two year broadband contract. Google has bought so much of capactity in the dark fibers, that it can become a viable broadband provider and give away PCs for free. And Google is also gaining valuable experience running metro area size WiFi network in Cupertino. Further Google has to negate the fundamental advantage MSFT has, that is ever changing standards, comaptibility issues.
Roll it all into one, you should expect GooglePC/BroadBand (beta ofcourse) sometime soon. If the hardward price drops far enough it can even sustain itself giving away the hardware and live on advertisements alone!
It used to be, browsers were used mainly to access information on the 'net and the most damage that will happen to you would be your computer might crash or net wont be available. It is not such low impact scenario anymore. Bank accounts and brokerage accounts are being accessed and controlled by the browsers by millions of people every day. The real serious hackers who know enough to take advantage of these exploits are not your typical script kiddie out to have some fun or make a name of himself. They are quite risk averse and they dont directly steal your money. They harvest passwords for these bank accounts and sell them in the underground.
The guys who buy these passwords have lots of connections with terrorism, drug trafficking, prostitution rings and many other nefarious activities. Password harvesting algorithms running wild can do more damage to you than the choking hazard from a toy part. Really.
Well, one can understand programmers making stupid mistakes, and creating vulnerabilities. And everytime you add features, whether it is important or just bells and whistles, you always run the risk of opening up another vulnerabilities. Granting all that, why is it that, in 2007, after Vista, with "Security is Job 1 in MSFT", why does a vulnerability in a browser goes all the way up to executing arbitrary code? Browsers are expected to get data from untrustable sites, they should have heavy armour protection. Why the users are putting up with this nonsense?
Some stupid consumer protection council reports that some part of some toy can come apart and present a choking hazard to children. "As many as 3 children could have died over the last 10 years because of this!" Suddenly all news organizations act as though the sky has fallen, and on slow news day, it is even the lead story! Here we have a hazard that could get your machine rooted and pwned and steal your password and sell it in the organized crime networks,... and the world reacts with a collective shrug.
Sorry, for the rant, I know I am preaching to the choir, just need to get it off my chest.
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Of course, it has nothing whatsoever with my ability to understand or the ability of the author to communicate, it all the fault of the tool used.
The taxes you pay protect your property directly by the police force. The local govt maintains the proof that you own the property. It maintains the infrasturcture that allows you to ward off intruders and usurpers without having to resort to violent means. If you own some land in Sudan or Angola you will realize how much of a benefit it is to just live in your home without having worry if a local warlord will evict you and take over your property.
What is the value of your property? It is largely the amount someone would be willing to pay for it. And laws like truth-in-lending, fairness clauses and the thriving economy increases the buying power of people that directly enhances the value of your property.
Considering it all, see if the amount taxed from you for your property is less than the value created to you by the Government. If the tax is less than the value created by the Govt, shut up and pay it. Dont make snide comments like "paying property tax means I dont own it and I am only renting it." Making such a statement shows the shallow grasp of economics and civics.
Nah, in UK you beg Iran to release the illegally captured liquid robots, please please pretty please.
I dont know how big are these patches, but with everyone from Microsoft, Apple-itunes, Firefox, Sun-Java and Norton anti-virus continuously and constantly pushing down "security updates" down the tubes I wonder how much bandwidth is left for normal surfing?
Just look at the hostility shown to the South Indians (disparagingly refrred to as the Madrasees) by the people of Delhi. Or the "sons of the soil" policies advocated by Shiv Sena in Bombay which is just thinly veiled antogonism shown to the educated South Indians getting plum jobs there. Not that the South Indians are paragons of virtue. My own native place lumps all North Indians as "marwadis", though Marwar is just one district in Rajasthan. Most North Indian are businessmen but political parties paint them to be money lending Shylocks.
I will say it once more, Indian Americans household median income is around 60K$, compared to some 52K for the Whites, 45K for the blacks and 42K for the hispanics. If this happened in India, the succesful group would have been hounded mercilessly and demonized for political purposes.
Learn these basic things about civics. Govt, by its mere, presence adds value to your property. The general law and order, enforcement of contracts, truth-in-labeling laws, truth-in-lending laws etc foster the climate the create value. Just think, how valuable your home will be if it is wrenched out of USA and plunked smack-dab-in-the-middle of Darfar, Sudan. The property tax there is probably 0. So before you mouth off, "govt is bad and zero tax is the fair tax" just remember that it just shows how shallow your comprehension of the world is.
What is better? Bunch of politicians saying, "We cant allow $this_thing to go on in our civilized society" and proscribing activities? Or people see the consequences of gambling away their nest eggs and forced to beg on the streets and making despo plea for help from the near and dear? If you give the politicians an inch, they take a mile.
Nothing will teach the society gambling is a tax on mathematically challenged till blood suckers come in and suck a few dry openly, publicly and for all to see.
I would rather open up gambling and free the hospitals from having to treat all comers whether or not they can pay for care. If we free people from the consequences of their actions, then you short circuit the feedback loop.
The port by definition will be above the waterline. How did you go from "we need the port" to "we need to build and maintain levees to protect homes built 14 feet below sea level? If that port generates that much traffic, the commerce will pay for the building and maintenance of it. They can charge toll to the barges and build the port. Leave my taxes alone. Please.
AFAIC I am not worried or alarmed by people believing in God or being agnostic or even atheistic. I am far more worried about people blindly following an ideology, be it communism, be it islamic terrorism or be it blind faith demanded by many churches. Fortunately communism is in the dust heap of history and the power of church over the population has been in decline for a long time. I just wish the churches will leave science alone and pick its fight with an equal adversary, the islamic terrorists.
Musicmatch was a free software. When you give something away, you have all the right to change what you give away. That is what Musicmatch did. Infact it is nothing more than the right of companies to increase the price of their products as they deem fit. Google maps are free. They have all the right to change what they give away or start charging for it. You, as a consumer, have the right not to buy the product if it is not worth what you are paying for it. But as the age old saying goes, beggars cant be choosers.
Google Earth imagery is worth every penny you paid for it. You paid zero pennies for it and so at this point, you take what they give you or go use an alternative services. Both yahoo and msft are also offering sattelite imagery. Feel free to use them. But if you want to be guaranteed that the imagery you get is the most uptodate and accurate one, be prepared shell out some real money.
What next? Would the congress demand Intuit to put back the QIF file import capability in Quicketn 2007. (They took it out in 2005). Demand Toyota to go back to using 18 spot welds on the spare tire well of the Camry instead of the 12? Would they demand Pittsbugh Plate Glass to go back to making 0.5 inch thick windshields instead of the present 0.25 inch thick ones? Today's Car Talk mentioned it.
Isn't the refrain, "They dont make it the way they used to" goes back a long ways? I dont know about google and toyota and PPG, but definitely in congress, they dont make them the way they used to. It looks like.
It is the FORCE of gravity, not tug. Not when you are talkin' about the Pod Race Capital of the universe. At a stretch you could call the Millenium Falcon a tug, but not what gravity exerts.
I glance through the article. It says there is going to be a heavier penalty for infringement. It does not say very clearly non commercial use will not be considered piracy.
Sorry posted to the wrong thread. Mod it down please. It is a lame joke anyways.
Sir, here is my plan. I suggest I present you as the next of kin and claim the QQ coins, which we can share at 30% for me, 60% to you and 10% to bribe the party officials in Beijing.
Hoping, the well respected person like you will not forget the timely help rendered by this humble servant and reward me with your most esteemed cooperation, Please contact me for proceeding further.
1. Price of hardware. Has dropped significantly
2. Someone with deep pockets who has already bought humoungous amount of bandwidth at bargain basement prices.
3. Cable/Telcos forming cartels to keep broadband prices artificially high and thwarting Metro WiFi even in areas where they dont provide service, like extended suburbs, rural areas and smaller towns. The law prohibits governments from providing wifi, but it cant stop a private company from offering one
4. Google could sell broadband at cost, which is next to nothing because it bought the bandwidth at bargain basement prices after the bubble burst, the monthly fee is just to recoup the cost of hardware.
Roll it all into one, you should expect GooglePC/BroadBand (beta ofcourse) sometime soon. If the hardward price drops far enough it can even sustain itself giving away the hardware and live on advertisements alone!
The guys who buy these passwords have lots of connections with terrorism, drug trafficking, prostitution rings and many other nefarious activities. Password harvesting algorithms running wild can do more damage to you than the choking hazard from a toy part. Really.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.
That is why the rant. Crash on imperfect input? I will accept that.
Some stupid consumer protection council reports that some part of some toy can come apart and present a choking hazard to children. "As many as 3 children could have died over the last 10 years because of this!" Suddenly all news organizations act as though the sky has fallen, and on slow news day, it is even the lead story! Here we have a hazard that could get your machine rooted and pwned and steal your password and sell it in the organized crime networks, ... and the world reacts with a collective shrug.
Sorry, for the rant, I know I am preaching to the choir, just need to get it off my chest.
... the C shell?