Comment Re:Third Party (Score 1) 785
2) Implement a single flat sales tax. People with more money buy more, and thus everyone pays fairly. Note that corporations 'buy' their employees, and so that tax would hit salaries and wages too.
2) Implement a single flat sales tax. People with more money buy more, and thus everyone pays fairly. Note that corporations 'buy' their employees, and so that tax would hit salaries and wages too.
Yes, I know it's huge but it's the only way I know how to do it.
but iTunes still has DRM.
From http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatsnew/
High-quality, DRM-free music. iTunes Plus is the new standard on iTunes. Now, you can choose from millions of iTunes Plus songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independents. With iTunes Plus, you get high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding. All free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM).
No they don't.
Why didn't the Gov't just create a tax credit?
I think the whole mentality (at least the implicit claim) was that the credit would offset any extra expense incurred by the very lowest earning in the US. Those that earn the very lowest amounts don't pay federal income taxes so a tax credit isn't going to do much good for them.
and most applications run only 1.1 times faster than a modern Java app anyway.
An instant ten percent speed up just by choosing the right language can be a meaningful speed increase in many applications.
Maybe, but at the very least you have to spend very long hours tolerating or even "collaborating with" arrogant jerks, many of whom are not more intelligent than you, but more attuned to the pandering and self-promotion game."
I would say you were probably at the wrong institution, or at the very least looking into working with the wrong people. I enjoy working with my advisor, and find that she is quite good at what she does.
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie