Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Yeah, class warfare. That's right. (Score 1) 2115

by WesternActor (#37444788) Attached to: White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax"

Two things. First: It's taxes. Call them taxes. Not revenues. TAXES.

Second: "Pay their fair share" isn't "a phrase meant to evoke a gut response"? Come on. As if anyone's share is somehow more fair if it's drastically out of proportion with what the majority of people pay. Soaking the rich isn't fair. Fair is, Everyone pays the same rate. That's not what the Democrats typically want, and anyone being intellectually honest knows that.

Comment Re:Tax planning and rich people (Score 1) 2115

by WesternActor (#37444740) Attached to: White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax"

Buffett may give as much of his excess earnings to the government as he likes. Nothing is stopping him, or anyone, from writing a check for as large an amount as possible and sending it to the treasury department. I'm sure they'd be happy to have it, since $4 billion or so would keep the government running for most of a day.

Comment Re:Tax planning and rich people (Score 1) 2115

by WesternActor (#37444666) Attached to: White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax"

Warren Buffett may write a check any time he likes to make up the difference. A check to the U.S. government for $4 billion, say, would keep the government running for almost a day. If all the billionaires in the U.S. did that of their own accord, we might be able to keep the government running within its means for, oh, a month or two. Good times!
Twitter

Submission + - NY Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Retweeting Feed (pcmag.com)

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: According to PCMag.com, the New York Times has asked Twitter to shut down the FreeNYT Twitter feed that basically retweets all of the Times' articles. Is this really possible? After all, the feed just points to a list of Times Twitter accounts, all of which can also be found on the Times' website. If the Times succeeds in shutting this down, it could have a chilling effect for Twitter and online free speech in general.
AMD

Submission + - AMD Releases Three New Low-Cost CPUs

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: With its new Fusion APUs coming out in about a month, you wouldn't think AMD would still be tweaking its processor lineup. But it released three new processors today—the Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, the Phenom II X2 565 Black Edition, and the Athlon II X3 455—to balance out its price-performance offerings. The Black Edition CPUs with their unlocked multipliers are probably the most interesting, particularly the Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition which has six cores, runs at 3.3 GHz, and costs only $265. As the name implies, the 1100T represents only a minute increase in clock speed over the 1090T. It even has the same amount of L2 and L3 cache (3MB and 6MB, respectively), is based on the same 45nm production process, and is designed for the currently standard AM3 socket. Given that 1090T got the downward nudge in price to $235, however, the 1100T offers slightly better performance for less money.
Graphics

Submission + - OpenGL 4.1 Specification Announced (extremetech.com)

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: The Khronos Group has announced full details for the OpenGL 4.1 specification. Among the new features of the spec, which comes just five months after the release of the 4.0 specification, is full support for OpenGL ES, which simplifies porting between mobile and desktop platforms. It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this new spec has on the graphics industry--more compatibility could change the way many embedded systems are designed. There are lots of other changes and additions in the spec, as well.
Hardware

Submission + - Build a $200 Linux PC (extremetech.com)

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: Computers are getting cheaper to buy every year, but there are still sometimes advantages to building them yourself. ExtremeTech has a story about how they sought out the parts for a $200 computer that (of course) runs Linux as a way of breaking the budget barrier. They even test it against a commercially available eMachines nettop to see how it compares in terms of performance. This probably isn't something everyone will want to do, but it's an interesting example of something you can do on the cheap if you put your mind to it.
The Internet

Six Major 3G and 4G Networks Tested Nationwide 115

Posted by timothy from the actually-tested-locally dept.
adeelarshad82 writes "PCMag recently tested six 3G and 4G networks to determine which ones were the fastest (and slowest) in 18 different US cities. They focused on data, not calls, and used their own testing script and methodology, which combined various kinds of uploads and downloads. Using laptops, more than a dozen people ran more than 10,000 tests; they found AT&T is both the fastest national 3G network, and the least consistent. Sprint's 3G system was the slowest of the 'big four' carriers, but the most consistent. When the test results were broken down by regions, AT&T led on speed in the Southeast, Central, and West, but T-Mobile took the crown in the Northeast region. Sprint's 4G network was fast where it was available, but it was surprisingly slower than 3G in some cities. The fastest AT&T download seen, at 5.05 megabits/sec, was right behind Apple's headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA. The fastest connection in any of the tests was a blazing 9.11 megabits down on Sprint 4G in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, GA. The slowest city, on average, was Raleigh, with average 3G downloads of 880kbits/sec."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Shows Off Future Product Tech

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Microsoft opened a portion of its fifth TechFair to Silicon Valley residents, demonstrating more than 15 displays which included everything from real-time translation to mobile-to-mobile networking to improved image stitching. Top two which really stood out were the translating telephone which actually used no "telephone" at all; it was a test to discover how well Microsoft's speech algorithms could interpret speech, translate it, and then speak the translation using text-to-speech algorithms. And then the Manual Deskterity, a new paradigm for a user interface; a right-handed user's left hand, for example, can be used for gross manipulations of objects, with the right can be used for fine manipulation, such as with a pen. It sounds a bit simplistic, at least at this stage. Since one of the charters of Microsoft Research is that the work eventually be moved to product teams, there's a good chance that the prototypes will eventually be made available to the public at large.
Censorship

Submission + - South Park Censored (southparkstudios.com) 1

Submitted by penguinman1337
penguinman1337 writes: Apparently, all is not well over at comedy central. The heavily censored version of "201" that aired last night has a lot of people angry, including the show's creators. Apparently its ok to make fun of a religion as long as its followers don't carry AK-47's and plastic explosive.

Slashdot Top Deals

Science may someday discover what faith has always known.

Close