I have a set of stoplights where going from one to the next at the speed limit will get you there just in time for the next light to turn red. Right now, if you speed by about 45-48 in a 40, you can make the next green. I'm sure this is where the technology will be implemented, to make sure everyone spends the most time possible at red lights.
Typically this is done so that when they want to get rid of you, they can just stop paying your bonus and you'll leave on your own. Also, it's a big stick to keep you in line well in arrears of when you actually did the work.
You can pack tons of manuals onto shelves if the shelves don't have to be browsed. A store could be nothing but a couple kiosks and a back room with crates of manuals. You could keep a low inventory of manuals since a lot of people wouldn't even want them (maybe charge separately for the hardcopy).
I'd be all for having something like this *if* it reduced prices. Oh well, it was a good idea anywa.
Obviously the tax prep company has done the math and figured out it costs them less than $27 per customer to insure against audits. But they are tax professionals. Self-insuring against an audit may well cost more than $27 at year. This is a simple transfer of risk, and for the person who won't miss $27 it might be a good buy.
The extended warrnties are different because they cover items easily replaced. Their cost implies a failure rate of 10-20%. That's a failure rate for things that fail *after* the normal return date and before the end of the warranty. If you can manage to break less than 1 in 10 things you'll easily be ahead.
An IRS audit can cost a *lot* of time. Being able to dump a lot of that time into the lap of your tax prep guy could be worth a lot of money.
Of course, when the IRS called me I just asked, "how much?" and paid them. They're not unreasonable, I ended up paying something like 8% interest on the overdue taxes (no penalties).
So many people repeat that there is an advantage. Again, I ask just one person to post a website with real math backing this up. Just repeating it doesn't make it true.
I honestly believe it is a myth perpetuated by the Casinos. Proove me wrong.
Gambling is a state sponsored activity that is so important that they run marketing campaigns to encourage citizens to participate. Clearly most of the USA's states consider it benevolent activity as all the people in these advertisements win big.
I'd like to comment on the part about investing a lot of time. Having made that investment, I've found that I only have to invest that time once.
The only thing Plone really suffers from is a division of administration between Plone and Zope. This is natural because of its implementation but is not always so well documented (imagaine that).
That said, most of the time I spent not finding what I was looking for ended up being time well spent because everything that I was poking around in was so easy to use.
Btw, what's up with the quote at the bottom of my page? It's neither funny nor famous, what makes it quotable? "The Marines: The few, the proud, the not very bright." As a Marine I may resemble that remark but it doesn't make a plain insult worthy of a quote.
I should have more properly put the cost of college at $100k, not the price. There is the price itself and the opportunity costs associated with not working a full time position. Yes, I know some of you had full time jobs in addition to college but if you did, then you could have had 2 full time jobs without college.
Good point about most people not having degrees. In that sense a lot of the low end programmers are comparable to factory workers.
The problem seems to be that the individual risks time and money to train in something that may or may not be there years down the road. Perhaps some sort of insurance is needed rather than government action.
I think we should build a big wall. Not necessarily to keep anyone out, I just think a big wall would look cool. That and those Canadians have been putting American comedians out of work for years.
You probably wouldn't fail his interview. Even when a person gets a question wrong, you can tell if they know the language or now.
Interviewing should be an interactive process. If you try to store primitives in a Collection the interviewer should say that Collections only store Objects. A java programmer will respond, "oh yea, that's right" and throw in a few wrappers. Someone that just put java on their resume will still be lost.
At least that's been my experience. I look for comfort level with the material. Experienced programmers can miss easy questions, particularly because they have developed methods for avoiding those very questions. For instance, I may occasionally not be completely sure of order of operations, so I just slap on some extra parentheses or split a large equation up over more than one line.
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I have a set of stoplights where going from one to the next at the speed limit will get you there just in time for the next light to turn red. Right now, if you speed by about 45-48 in a 40, you can make the next green. I'm sure this is where the technology will be implemented, to make sure everyone spends the most time possible at red lights.
Typically this is done so that when they want to get rid of you, they can just stop paying your bonus and you'll leave on your own. Also, it's a big stick to keep you in line well in arrears of when you actually did the work.
TOTAL CARNAGE! I LOVE IT!
Yea, they wouldn't write out the suits of Starship Troopers just so you could see faces, would they?
I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if they were to take a star and bottle her up in a suit for most of the movie.
Then they still need to be trained, duh. Those blocks won't line up on their own.
You can pack tons of manuals onto shelves if the shelves don't have to be browsed. A store could be nothing but a couple kiosks and a back room with crates of manuals. You could keep a low inventory of manuals since a lot of people wouldn't even want them (maybe charge separately for the hardcopy).
I'd be all for having something like this *if* it reduced prices. Oh well, it was a good idea anywa.
I chipped-up and got emacs installed.
M-x auto-drive-mode
Someone should make a laptop:
Runs DOS
WordPerfect 5
email
All in RAM
Flashdrive for storage
168 hour battery life
indestructable or 2 pounds (pick either)
chmod +x /dev/random
To all you guys in Cali, all I have to say is this:
3500 sq feet
Good neighborhood
Good schools
$204k new
-Dallas
I saw a keyboard where someone had arranged all the keys in alphabetical order. It looked so wrong and yet at the same time also looked right.
Too bad most of the plastic keys aren't meant to be pulled like the old IBM metal ones were.
A stereo stops work. Small problem in life.
IRS audit. Not a small problem in life.
Obviously the tax prep company has done the math and figured out it costs them less than $27 per customer to insure against audits. But they are tax professionals. Self-insuring against an audit may well cost more than $27 at year. This is a simple transfer of risk, and for the person who won't miss $27 it might be a good buy.
The extended warrnties are different because they cover items easily replaced. Their cost implies a failure rate of 10-20%. That's a failure rate for things that fail *after* the normal return date and before the end of the warranty. If you can manage to break less than 1 in 10 things you'll easily be ahead.
An IRS audit can cost a *lot* of time. Being able to dump a lot of that time into the lap of your tax prep guy could be worth a lot of money.
Of course, when the IRS called me I just asked, "how much?" and paid them. They're not unreasonable, I ended up paying something like 8% interest on the overdue taxes (no penalties).
If you read the grandparents post three times a day for the next month you'll see that it is true.
You've obviously talking about the 2nd Amendment.
So many people repeat that there is an advantage. Again, I ask just one person to post a website with real math backing this up. Just repeating it doesn't make it true.
I honestly believe it is a myth perpetuated by the Casinos. Proove me wrong.
Gambling is a state sponsored activity that is so important that they run marketing campaigns to encourage citizens to participate. Clearly most of the USA's states consider it benevolent activity as all the people in these advertisements win big.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a rubber band gap.
I'd like to comment on the part about investing a lot of time. Having made that investment, I've found that I only have to invest that time once.
The only thing Plone really suffers from is a division of administration between Plone and Zope. This is natural because of its implementation but is not always so well documented (imagaine that).
That said, most of the time I spent not finding what I was looking for ended up being time well spent because everything that I was poking around in was so easy to use.
Btw, what's up with the quote at the bottom of my page? It's neither funny nor famous, what makes it quotable? "The Marines: The few, the proud, the not very bright." As a Marine I may resemble that remark but it doesn't make a plain insult worthy of a quote.
No kidding, everyone is playing Doom II.
My only backup concern is my .emacs file, and at 420M a cd burnder does just fine.
I should have more properly put the cost of college at $100k, not the price. There is the price itself and the opportunity costs associated with not working a full time position. Yes, I know some of you had full time jobs in addition to college but if you did, then you could have had 2 full time jobs without college.
Good point about most people not having degrees. In that sense a lot of the low end programmers are comparable to factory workers.
The problem seems to be that the individual risks time and money to train in something that may or may not be there years down the road. Perhaps some sort of insurance is needed rather than government action.
I think we should build a big wall. Not necessarily to keep anyone out, I just think a big wall would look cool. That and those Canadians have been putting American comedians out of work for years.
You probably wouldn't fail his interview. Even when a person gets a question wrong, you can tell if they know the language or now.
Interviewing should be an interactive process. If you try to store primitives in a Collection the interviewer should say that Collections only store Objects. A java programmer will respond, "oh yea, that's right" and throw in a few wrappers. Someone that just put java on their resume will still be lost.
At least that's been my experience. I look for comfort level with the material. Experienced programmers can miss easy questions, particularly because they have developed methods for avoiding those very questions. For instance, I may occasionally not be completely sure of order of operations, so I just slap on some extra parentheses or split a large equation up over more than one line.
Really, it's just a matter of time before a virus installs Linux and millions of people make the switch.
The accusation generally goes something along the lines of politicians have trades recorded for them *after* the fact, so they only trade winners.
Sure it takes time and effort for both games and operating systems.
.txt files. I'll even allow people to use either editor.
However, the marginal cost of another copy of another game is much higher than for operating systems.
MS has published around 10 OS's. There have been thousands and thousands of games.
Lots of people have degrees that they are willing to bend the law. I'll jaywalk but I won't run a red light.
Personally, I pay for all my software but I can definitely understand someone not wanting to pay for Word just to type up a resume.
Hmm...makes me wish I had my company going. We'll use