Search results

I completely agree with you on what the problem is. The solution, however, is more elusive. I heard an interesting analysis of our unemployment system compared to those used elsewhere. It seems that the only systems that actually worked were ones where more carrots and more sticks were involved...

Market share is also required for their "walled garden" concept to work. If you lock everyone out but those that use large parts of your product ecosystem, it gets claustrophobic unless there are a lot of people on the inside.

Apple survives on high margin. As soon as a product becomes a commodity that anyone can make the margin is shot. Android is the key to tablets becomming a commodity.

I actually am in about the 6-7th percentile. I don't feel "rich", but that is mainly because many of my friends are in the 1%-0.1% range. The concept of wealth redistribution as a whole seems to be what this conversation is boiling down to. Should everyone be allowed to keep their own...

Conditions are nice and all, but how often do you want to sleep alone? Choose your battles, and get more action ;)

Is it Android 2.2? Yes. Does it support the App market? No. Does it come with GPS? Yes. Does it have a GPS app installed by default? No. Now I need to find out how to root the thing. It would be awesome if I could somehow get it to work with ANT+ sensor networks. Music+navigation+cadence+heart...

3-4 hours a night is enough to keep you going for at least a year (in my experience).

Unlikely. 300+ maybe. Unless you are already there. If so, it might not be a good idea.

Creative Zen2/GPS. Unboxing impressions: 1. Obvious that this product was opened before (two layers of "tamper proof" stickers, the bottom one broken). This was purchased from Creative via their Amazon store. At least all the accessories were sealed. 2. Getting started guide. It is one of those...

What does your cholesterol look like? Your blood pressure? I've done it (if by "nutritional supplements" you mean soda), and was as fine after as I was before. It's kind of like a diet, really. You become so sick of the food that you only eat enough to stave off hunger.

The top 10% have 90% of the money and pay 70% of the taxes. That looks like a discrepancy to me.

I'm not sure how you get the impression that I don't understand it. Those numbers look about right to me. If your computer needs to be load-tested, you can check out the US National Debt Clock webpage. Based on your numbers in post #168, doubling taxes on the bottom 50% of wage earners would...

I don't see a difference in those two statements other than spin. If 10% of Americans make 90% of the money, taxing them 10% more allows you to cut the taxes of everyone else by 90% and keep revenues roughly equal. If that is the case, it is not possible that increasing taxes on the rich...

I was able to manage it strictly by spending cuts, mainly to the military and entitlement programs. That doesn't mean that I don't think the wealthy should pay their share, or that tax loopholes and shelters should be plugged, just that that could lower everyone elses taxes considerably.

This is fun.

You're broadening the argument. Your original statement in this line was that taxing the rich more couldn't put a dent in the deficit. This is a simple math problem were one to have the numbers. You are now arguing fiscal policy, which is a much broader argument where you and I are more in...

Sol nailed it. I prefer a keyboard with buckling springs, and I prefer one that is fairly quiet. That one qualifies as both.

Keep it simple if possible. If FTP is enough, then use that.

Yup. Most of the boards I have don't have PS/2 at all. And spraying a cheap keyboard wouldn't fix #1.

It is steep because of the growth potential. If it wasn't for their anticipated expansion, I would stick a pair of 3TB drives in the CAD workstation in RAID-1 and call it the server. That would save them considerable money. It also doesn't seem like a whole lot for an office start up cost. I...

Very weak, Stereodude. It isn't simple. If we wanted to do simple, common sense math we could look at the income distribution and to the math ourselves. Of course, that doesn't work because many at the top hide their earning elsewhere. This is a complicated matter because those with interests...

1. It is actually a very high quality keyboard as far as the mechanics go. 2. They claim that your typing speed increases substantially very quickly due to the fact that you can't cheat.

I'm not qualified to argue the numbers, and neither are you. The best we can do is get expert opinions. You brought some, and I'm disputing their credibility. That is the advantage to Warren Buffet making this argument; it is clearly not in his best interest to lie. Also, if there is any score...

How about questioning the source as well?

I'm questioning the legitimacy and independence of that site.

When I have a remote user who needs access to stuff, I keep the data and programs on a local machine and give him an RDP connection. Some programs (QuickBooks comes to mind) are too sloppy at handling their own data files. Sometimes this is a tower in a corner with no monitor on it, but it is...

Haven't done Florida, but Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam I did. Vietnam sucked a lot, for a lot of reasons, but the overriding memory was insects not humidity.

I've done most of it, actually. While I was there it wasn't as bad. Trying to sleep in a room with 70% humidity and no AC is a challenge, but I remember DC being 90F and 90%, and that just killed me.

I had a deer once bolt into the side of my car. I saw it coming out into the road, so I came to a stop. It was just standing there in my lane, so I slowly started to drive past in the oncoming lane. When I was alongside, looking through the passenger window right at it, it bolted straight into...

The two biggest groups that live there are: Politicans - who would trod on their grandmother and roast in hell to stay there. Poor - who don't have the mobility and can't afford to live elsewhere.

I've only done 6, Washington DC in August would be the worst, except that AC was plentiful. SE Asia wasn't as bad, but there were less opportunities for releif.

Yup. Spent 6 months in Manhattan, another one in DC. Won't be doing either again.

I really miss my CBR600F4i. That was a great machine. If I were to get another bike, it would probably be something a bit more comfortable. Not a Gold Wing or anything, but probably a BMW F800ST or similar.

I cannot tolerate humidity. Here it is actually a little high today (60%). Normally it is closer to 50%. I hate that sticky feeling you get everywhere.

Google has a special tool for it.

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/salinas-12797069/ Not to brag or anything...

Thanks for the tip, time. Creative Zen Touch 2 16GB with GPS on its way.

Indeed. The one I ordered also stated 1080p clear as day. It wasn't until I viewed the EDID information directly that I found out what it actually wanted.

The company's website does not list this model, but all the screens I saw smaller than 42" were 1366x768 native resolution.

Yup. I bought a panel that claimed 1080p but was in fact 1680x1050 or thereabouts. It is now running at that lower native resolution as a monitor, but I do not trust it do properly display 1080p video. I forget the make/model, but it is somewhere here in the last couple months.

I would have agreed until yesterday when I actually used one. Would it be easier to use if it were larger? Yup. Is it usable the size it is? Quite. Is it worth making the whole damn thing bigger just to make the interface easier? I don't think so. I'll take a look.

Can't find anything with hardware nearly as sexy. Looks like I'll be trying to run an Apple device without iTunes...this says it can do it.

I'm looking for an iPod nano competitor. Only requirements are: 1. Direct file-level access over USB (no iTunes or other proprietary app) 2. Small with screen and browsing capabilities.

Yay generator backup. Or, if you have an electric car, just use that ;)

DVI + audio = HDMI The signalling is basically the same, and all digital. So that it the best the picture will look.

Thanks, Bozo. I'm familiar with tower cranes in general, but if you look closely at this one it appears to have been built at least partially from parts that were in the scrapyard to begin with ;)

20Wx2 or 50W single. Should be plenty for your purposes, no? Those things got considerable praise from a number of audio sites when they came out a number of years ago.

I thought this looked cool, almost hand built.

The one I linked above:

I'm glad I didn't have that image in my mind when I was doing it...