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Comment: Re:Need Clarity (Score 1) 160

by Waffle Iron (#43795029) Attached to: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released

By your definition, Microsoft WIndows must not be an OS. After all, it can't compile itself, because it doesn't come with a compiler.

Nor is Android; I doubt that it even has a compiler. Even app development for Android is done with a cross compiler on a different system.

Of course, all of those dilemmas are false, because in reality, the definition of "OS" simply does not contain a requirement for self-compilation.

Comment: Re:Unadvantages! (Score 1) 252

by Waffle Iron (#43793231) Attached to: Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

Ruby

What is type "safety" anyways?

It's apparent that you don't know the answer to that question.

Ruby is a safely typed language. It happens to use *dynamic* typing, but it checks those types at runtime nonetheless. Static-typed languages try to do the same thing at compile time.

Type-unsafe languages, such as FORTH, do not check types at all before operating on them. If you provide the wrong type of operand to a call, you get garbage output, but no error is raised unless you cause a CPU-generated segfault.

Comment: Re:We need a real tax revolt in the US (Score 2) 326

That's the attitude that I'm talking about, and it's bankrupting this country.

Except in times of large-scale war or financial panic, the government needs to collect taxes to cover its expenditures. If balancing the budget raises taxes enough to be painful, then people will demand reductions in spending. That's the only way you're going to actually shrink the government.

Instead, people like you demand tax cuts first. Well, cutting taxes is easy; they've done it again and again in the past few decades. Cutting actual government spending is hard, because no matter what you cut, you're taking away someone's entitlement. So what we get is a stalemate that generates endless deficits, with no solution in sight.

Comment: Re:We need a real tax revolt in the US (Score 1) 326

There are two undisputed points on the Laffer curve 0% and 100% both return no money in the medium and longer run.

Whoa... that's a keen insight, Einstein.

The shape of the Laffer curve is in some dispute

You don't say!

As I pointed out, the problem is that those who believe in a mythical shape that only seems to have a right-hand side have set our tax policy for the last 30 years. With disastrous consequences for our nation.

Comment: Re:We need a real tax revolt in the US (Score 1) 326

We need millions of taxpayers, especially small businesses to not only refuse to pay their taxes

Not necessary. The system has already been rigged by propagators of the Laffer curve myth so that the government collects only a small fraction of the taxes necessary to pay for its operation. So you're already not paying most of your taxes.

Comment: Re:they are paying taxes (Score 2) 326

Yep, one of the great things is that even though the US and Western Europe have decided they don't want you being productive in their country, there are still countries out there that are much more free.

It's easy to be "free" when the companies in question aren't actually IN your country. The government-provided services the freeloading companies depend on are paid for by the non-dodging taxpayers of the countries in which the business actually operate.

Comment: Re:Priority Failure. (Score 2) 338

by Waffle Iron (#43652887) Attached to: BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT

Businesses make money by charging people for scarce resources. IPV6 addresses are in no way scarce, so why would they invest any money in that?

With NAT, they can keep making money the way they always have with minimal additional investment, and they can make even more money by offering dedicated IPV4 addresses to people who pay extra for some kind of "platinum premium plus pro" plan.

Comment: Re:Aftermarket (Score 1) 455

by Waffle Iron (#43643863) Attached to: Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old

People who really care about cockpit entertainment will go through the trouble to have aftermarket equipment installed. This was true 40 years ago and it's the same today.

That's true. Decades ago, I bought an old Ford pickup truck that had come factory equipped only with an AM radio. Some previous owner had addressed the problem by bolting a combination 8-track player/CB radio transceiver under the dash (I kid you not).

In one step, they had solved both the mobile communications and media storage deficiencies of the original model, while at the same time definitively reaffirming the that vehicle's legacy as a product of the 1970s. And no firmware upgrades were required.

Comment: Re:Not to mention... (Score 2) 455

by Waffle Iron (#43643611) Attached to: Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old

It still can be extreme conditions, based on where you leave the car parked. You're expecting a cheap high capacity big-box-store-grade hard drive to operate correctly after being: Parked in the sun all afternoon in Arizona: that's probably +140F. Or parked overnight in an Alaska winter: that's probably -40F. Or parked for years on the Gulf Coast at near 100% humidity. Then you expect it to keep operating while the car's heating and A/C rapidly change those conditions.

That's a tall order. These drives already barely work in a climate controlled household environment.

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