Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but was Mac OS 1 really identified as such? I was pretty young at the time, but I never remembered seeing anything in between the Apple IIe and Mac OS 6. Did they just go really really fast through 1-6, or was it an outgrowth of something else?
But the only reason you think you will be able to sell the share for $16 in the future is because of future dividends. Sure, you get into situations of irrationality where people buy into investments with no potential to ever pay back a dime (called "castles in the air" by Keynes). The most famous example was the tulip bulb craze in Holland a couple centuries ago. Other modern examples would be Beanie Babies, or Las Vegas. But, the rational basis for the stock market, the reason that it is, unlike the above examples, a fundamentally sound investment, is because of the stream of dividend payments.
Dude, it's called economies of fucking scale. Should a bus driver be paid 20 times as much as a taxi driver, because of the added seating capacity of a bus?
Anyway, what should society do? Public schools already spend more per student (and pay teachers higher average salaries) than private schools, but have much worse performance. Clearly money is not the issue. Here in San Francisco, about a year or two ago, they found out that they'd been paying someone for the last 30 years to fix public school sewing machines! For chrissake, didn't anyone think at any point "hey, we don't HAVE any sewing machines in our schools anymore?" No, they kept paying him for 30 years before finally realizing that he was committing fraud. The public school system is inherently flawed, the only viable sollution is vouchers, abolish public schools entirely and give financial assistance to poor families to allow them to send their kids to private school.
If we have a country called the Federal Republic of Germany, what do we call them, Germans? Yes, that's exactly what we call them. We call them that EVEN THOUGH the nation of Germany (then the German Empire) formed after the term Germans was applied to a particular ethnic group and region, and the German Empire did not include everyone identified as being part of that ethnic group, or the entirety of that region. There were (and still are) plenty of Germans in Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, and so forth. In fact, there's a reason those nations were the first targetted by Hitler, because they contained people he considered to be pureblooded Germans.
So, since EVERYONE KNOWS who you're talking about when you refer to people from the USA as Americans, there is no need for a new term.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't some of them known terrorists, using their real names? I seem to recall that they were fairly certain within a day that it was foreign terrorists because the passenger manifests turned up matches in FBI/CIA databases.
Obviously, more reliable ID isn't going to help if you're letting known terrorists on the plane, but it might help if done in conjunction with checking names against lists of known terrorists.
The DMCA is part of US copyright law. It is not the entirety of copyright law, but a violation of the DMCA ("Digital Millenium COPYRIGHT Act") is a violation of copyright law, if you live in the USA.
Are you joking? I don't know about you, but I personally hate rats. If I get rats in any place that I live, I do my best to exterminate them, and I would guess that most feel likewise. Why should I feel for an animal that, when in my house, I would kill without hesitation? It would be like having reservations about using mosquitoes, or for that matter, the use of viruses for gene therapy (after all, viruses are alive, aren't they?).
Actually, what I thought was funniest about the marshmellow chicks was that it was obviously a gag coordinated between the Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. The Malcolm in the Middle episode that week had subplot where the older brother bets his classmates at military school that he can eat 100 marshmellow chicks.
That kind of breaking of the 4th wall can be pretty funny when you're not expecting it.
...when Max Headroom receited the alphabet on Sesame Street? I was, sadly, too young to catch the original on TV the first time around, but the stuttery, spoken alphabet "song" will forever be burned into my subconcious.
I sympathize with the employees, who are probably struggling along as best they can in spite of manager stupidity. Why are CEOs so obsessed with empire building? Say what you will about Hewlett being a spoiled brat not wanting to lose "daddy's company," he still seems to me to be the only one one H-P's board with a clue. I predict that H-P-C will be bankrupt within 3 years.
Well, compared to traditional projectors, he's right. Reel switching and film scratches are both highly noticable. In some cases it may be over rated, but in this case, digital really is a lot better.
In true corporate fashion, when it was discovered (by me), nothing was done.
Wow, what industry do you work in that this is "typical?" I worked for a year for a large corporation in the investment banking business (UBS PaineWebber, to be specific), and I can assure you that this wouldn't have lasted five seconds. The admin types had no trouble whatsoever confronting situations. I'm curious where you worked that people could get away with this.
Sadly, they are ruined by an absurdly poor depiction of martian civilization. Read Red Mars, when they're all still colonists, but give Green Mars a pass. Never made it to Blue Mars, so I can't vouch for that one.
Huh, my bank provides both ATMs and net banking free. Sure, I get charged if I use another bank's ATM machine, but since prior to the existence of ATMs I couldn't make a withdrawal from another bank at all, I think things have gotten better.
If you want to do something really useful, how about Stanford's protein folding project? Sure, it would be neat to know that ETs are out there, but given lightspeed limitations, we probably won't establish meaningful communications with them in our lifetimes (plus, I saw a comment below claiming that they're already processing data faster than they can collect it). Prime numbers have virtually no practical applications whatsoever, except maybe for allowing us to send out longer messages of our own to ETs. But protein folding has the potential to allow a tremendous leap forward in medicine and biotech.
In California (which has drawn heat for being one of the lowest paying states in the Union, though I don't know quantitiatively how it stacks up), teachers make an average of $45,000/year, half again as much as the median national income of $30,000/year. In fact, starting salary is $29,000. Since pay is based on seniority, you know when your raises are coming, and how much you're going to get. For all intents and purposes, you can't be fired. That's one hell of a lot of job security.
Besides which, no one made you sign up to be a teacher. If you don't like it, feel free to find a different industry. It's like the people who move near an airport, and then lobby the government to set more stringent noise requirements for planes.
Winter break is 2 weeks, easter break is 1, plus they get at least another week from the various long weekends that other businesses don't follow. Some get another week earlier in the spring. So that's more like 4.5 months. It's a maximum 7 hour day (at least I've never heard of a school that goes longer than 8-3:30, with a half hour lunch break). So 7.5/12 * 7/8 =.55.
Yes, many do run extra curricular activities, summer school, and so forth, but they get paid extra for that. Yet I've never heard of that extra pay being counted when people complain about how low teaching salaries are.
Now I'm not saying there aren't good teachers. In fact, if bad teachers got fired, and good teachers could get paid more based on merit, instead of seniority, no doubt many of them would deserve a good deal more. But, so long as the teachers unions hold sway, the quality will remain low, and the salaries should remain likewise.
First of all, the money goes into his campaign no matter what else he spends taxpayer money on. Government campaign contributions are a fixed amount. I could go a tirade about how this is an underhanded scheme to keep third parties out of office, but suffice to say, it doesn't matter if he spends this money on videogames or tv ads, the money still gets spent.
As for the teachers, they already get retirement benefits, this was just a scheme to strengthen the seniority system that public schools are based on. For those who start teaching at 24, retirement would kick in at 57! And they only had to work half the year every year! It's absurd. If any public school teachers ever did a day of REAL work, they'd die.
Now, of course I know that this is going to be a controversial question, but are there any Minnesota residents who want to comment on Gov. Jesse Ventura's performace? Obviously he was all over the news when he got elected, and whenever he said something offensive, but I haven't heard very much about his actual performance in office, so I'm curious what people think of him.
Anyway, to get back on topic, computers are definately great campaign tools. The amount of information that could be conveyed through handing out cd-roms (think aol) is enormous. I'm not sure games are the right way to go though; it's tough to make a fun game. It's harder to make a fun, educational game. It's damn near impossible to make a fun, educational game in the kind of time the programmers are likely to have before the election. A lame game seems likely to do a lot more harm than a fun game would do good.
There has actually been a lot of talk in the business community about Microsoft's (mis)management. Bill Gates & Co. are obviously brilliant strategists, having successfully established a powerful monopoly over an exceptionally fast moving field. However, they have created very little in the way of an internal corporate structure. They still run it like a startup. What we may be looking at is something like an Alexander the Great empire, an enormous power at the moment, but likely to collapse as the original founders retire.
I never said it was funny. I just said it wasn't random. It had a direct connection with the story (which included a reference to Lyle Lanley's monorail pitch). I agree, whoever rated the comment funny is also a fuckwit.
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I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that Best Buy has some sort of obligation to sell the card at the advetised price. Misprints, typos, and other mistakes are NOT binding. United Airlines had a website glitch that allowed a couple hundred people to reserve flights to Paris for $1 over the course of an hour before the problem was corrected. They were NOT required to honor that. That's the law, folks, sorry. If they already charged you, things *might* be different, but most online retailers don't charge you until they're ready to ship, so I doubt that applied in this case. Many retailers will honor mistakes anyway, if it's not too big of an error, because they want to create good will, but that is their choice, not an obligation. That is, I think, a good thing.
Now, some have claimed that Best Buy did this on purpose in order to get more people to shop there. This is indeed an illegal bait and switch, but only if you can show that they did it intentionally. Hope this clears things up.
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How do you know? Have you gone back to 1 million BC and tried impregnating a cavewoman? No? Then you don't really know if we're backwards compatible or not. Besides, there's been far less design improvement in that amount of time for humans than there has been for XFree86
Is there actually any reason to build a monorail aside from coolness? Do they have any advantages over traditional railed vehicles, or is it just that they figure tourists would be more likely to ride a monorail than an elevated train?
Also, from the article: The first four miles of the rail project are being funded entirely with private money raised through tax-free bonds.
And who do they expect to eventually pay off those bonds, the tooth fairy? Sounds like the whole thing is publicly funded to me...
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Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but was Mac OS 1 really identified as such? I was pretty young at the time, but I never remembered seeing anything in between the Apple IIe and Mac OS 6. Did they just go really really fast through 1-6, or was it an outgrowth of something else?
But the only reason you think you will be able to sell the share for $16 in the future is because of future dividends. Sure, you get into situations of irrationality where people buy into investments with no potential to ever pay back a dime (called "castles in the air" by Keynes). The most famous example was the tulip bulb craze in Holland a couple centuries ago. Other modern examples would be Beanie Babies, or Las Vegas. But, the rational basis for the stock market, the reason that it is, unlike the above examples, a fundamentally sound investment, is because of the stream of dividend payments.
Anyway, what should society do? Public schools already spend more per student (and pay teachers higher average salaries) than private schools, but have much worse performance. Clearly money is not the issue. Here in San Francisco, about a year or two ago, they found out that they'd been paying someone for the last 30 years to fix public school sewing machines! For chrissake, didn't anyone think at any point "hey, we don't HAVE any sewing machines in our schools anymore?" No, they kept paying him for 30 years before finally realizing that he was committing fraud. The public school system is inherently flawed, the only viable sollution is vouchers, abolish public schools entirely and give financial assistance to poor families to allow them to send their kids to private school.
So, since EVERYONE KNOWS who you're talking about when you refer to people from the USA as Americans, there is no need for a new term.
Obviously, more reliable ID isn't going to help if you're letting known terrorists on the plane, but it might help if done in conjunction with checking names against lists of known terrorists.
Now it's up to 4. It probably just took Amazon a little while to update.
The DMCA is part of US copyright law. It is not the entirety of copyright law, but a violation of the DMCA ("Digital Millenium COPYRIGHT Act") is a violation of copyright law, if you live in the USA.
Are you joking? I don't know about you, but I personally hate rats. If I get rats in any place that I live, I do my best to exterminate them, and I would guess that most feel likewise. Why should I feel for an animal that, when in my house, I would kill without hesitation? It would be like having reservations about using mosquitoes, or for that matter, the use of viruses for gene therapy (after all, viruses are alive, aren't they?).
That kind of breaking of the 4th wall can be pretty funny when you're not expecting it.
...when Max Headroom receited the alphabet on Sesame Street? I was, sadly, too young to catch the original on TV the first time around, but the stuttery, spoken alphabet "song" will forever be burned into my subconcious.
I sympathize with the employees, who are probably struggling along as best they can in spite of manager stupidity. Why are CEOs so obsessed with empire building? Say what you will about Hewlett being a spoiled brat not wanting to lose "daddy's company," he still seems to me to be the only one one H-P's board with a clue. I predict that H-P-C will be bankrupt within 3 years.
Well, compared to traditional projectors, he's right. Reel switching and film scratches are both highly noticable. In some cases it may be over rated, but in this case, digital really is a lot better.
Wow, what industry do you work in that this is "typical?" I worked for a year for a large corporation in the investment banking business (UBS PaineWebber, to be specific), and I can assure you that this wouldn't have lasted five seconds. The admin types had no trouble whatsoever confronting situations. I'm curious where you worked that people could get away with this.
Sadly, they are ruined by an absurdly poor depiction of martian civilization. Read Red Mars, when they're all still colonists, but give Green Mars a pass. Never made it to Blue Mars, so I can't vouch for that one.
Huh, my bank provides both ATMs and net banking free. Sure, I get charged if I use another bank's ATM machine, but since prior to the existence of ATMs I couldn't make a withdrawal from another bank at all, I think things have gotten better.
Likewise, I first heard about it in a slashdot story.
Besides which, no one made you sign up to be a teacher. If you don't like it, feel free to find a different industry. It's like the people who move near an airport, and then lobby the government to set more stringent noise requirements for planes.
Yes, many do run extra curricular activities, summer school, and so forth, but they get paid extra for that. Yet I've never heard of that extra pay being counted when people complain about how low teaching salaries are.
Now I'm not saying there aren't good teachers. In fact, if bad teachers got fired, and good teachers could get paid more based on merit, instead of seniority, no doubt many of them would deserve a good deal more. But, so long as the teachers unions hold sway, the quality will remain low, and the salaries should remain likewise.
As for the teachers, they already get retirement benefits, this was just a scheme to strengthen the seniority system that public schools are based on. For those who start teaching at 24, retirement would kick in at 57! And they only had to work half the year every year! It's absurd. If any public school teachers ever did a day of REAL work, they'd die.
Anyway, to get back on topic, computers are definately great campaign tools. The amount of information that could be conveyed through handing out cd-roms (think aol) is enormous. I'm not sure games are the right way to go though; it's tough to make a fun game. It's harder to make a fun, educational game. It's damn near impossible to make a fun, educational game in the kind of time the programmers are likely to have before the election. A lame game seems likely to do a lot more harm than a fun game would do good.
There has actually been a lot of talk in the business community about Microsoft's (mis)management. Bill Gates & Co. are obviously brilliant strategists, having successfully established a powerful monopoly over an exceptionally fast moving field. However, they have created very little in the way of an internal corporate structure. They still run it like a startup. What we may be looking at is something like an Alexander the Great empire, an enormous power at the moment, but likely to collapse as the original founders retire.
I never said it was funny. I just said it wasn't random. It had a direct connection with the story (which included a reference to Lyle Lanley's monorail pitch). I agree, whoever rated the comment funny is also a fuckwit.
Now, some have claimed that Best Buy did this on purpose in order to get more people to shop there. This is indeed an illegal bait and switch, but only if you can show that they did it intentionally. Hope this clears things up.
How do you know? Have you gone back to 1 million BC and tried impregnating a cavewoman? No? Then you don't really know if we're backwards compatible or not. Besides, there's been far less design improvement in that amount of time for humans than there has been for XFree86
Also, from the article: The first four miles of the rail project are being funded entirely with private money raised through tax-free bonds.
And who do they expect to eventually pay off those bonds, the tooth fairy? Sounds like the whole thing is publicly funded to me...