As a former British colony, there's actually a lot more english spoken among the educated classes than you'd expect in India. That's why there's so many software developers from there, because they can compete in the english speaking world.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I've read the Daily Illuminator on a daily basis for about the last 5 years (I just work it into my cycle of daily comics), even though I stopped playing Gurps around 2 years ago. For the last year, or so, I'd noticed they'd been adding a LOT of new product lines. New card games, a complete miniature line, the Gurps Traveller line (a whole RPG line within the Gurps system), and on and on. I started worrying a bit that maybe they were stretching themselves a little thin, but maybe business was better than I thought.
Unfortunately, I guess I was right all along. They were stretching themselves thin, they just didn't realize it because of poor bookkeeping. That's really too bad, Steve Jackson has always been an exceptionally cool guy. I think I'll head over to Warehouse 23 and buy myself a copy of Deluxe Illuminati, since I've always been curious about that game.
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Accounting is complicated, and for privately held companies, there's less of a need to hammer out a report every quarter. So, my guess is that the CFO had a history at the company, and was trusted. SJ Games has put out a lot of new product lines over the last year, and so a full accounting report was probably put off a bit to figure out how they wanted to account for certain new investments (like their miniature casting shop). Then, once the CFO got behind, he found it easier and easier to think to himself "oh, well we've put it off a quarter already, I'll start on it next week, no need to get it done right this second." Steve, having known the guy to be competent for a long time, accepted his excuses and assurances that it wasn't a big deal, and he would get it done before it became a problem.
The fact of the matter is, when you work at a small company, you grow to trust people. When you grow to trust people, you manage them less (and generally speaking, that's a good thing, if someone is competent, they shouldn't have to have you giving them anally retentive directions). Unfortunately, good people can get locked in destructive cycles such as the one above, where they tell themselves "if I just work extra hard tomorrow, then I don't need to work on this today," making the task ever more daunting, until finally the whole thing falls apart, as in this case.
I've seen this happen in high school (our yearbook was a year late once, because the faculty coordinator, who was a really great guy, suffered from the above problem), I've had it happen to me in college, and I see it all the time on a smaller scale in people's personal lives. Good, competent people sometimes fuck up, and fuck up big time, and so the only solution (which is not a solution at all) is to trust no one. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This is a tad off topic, but what I'd really like to do is hook one of these puppies up to a battery power supply, a Glasstron, load Linux and use as a wearable.
So, towards that end, does anyone know of any sites that go into the internals of the power supply, or explain how to hack it to work off a battery? I don't want to buy one to take apart without at least some kind of reassurance that it's a doable project. If the power adaptor were external, it'd be real easy, but unfortunately not..
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But, they also compared it to Pac Man, so maybe the two will balance each other out. "Yeah, sure boss, it is that virus OS. But remember, it's also like Pac Man. I'll let you play if you want."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
What, you mean not spend any money after the age of 22, thereby making the teenage girl market the most lucrative?
Or were you just referring to computer consumption habits, like sticking with mainframes as the article discusses? That doesn't seem too great either. I'm confused...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
First off, yes, you are of course correct on the printing issue. The Fed issues Reserve Notes, it does not actually print them. I don't know what I was thinking. The point, however, is that the Notes are financial obligations of the Federal Reserve. Coins, on the other hand, are financial obligations of the Treasury. These days, the only obligation is that when you give them a $50 bill, they give you $50 back in bill form. However, throughout most of the century, they were required to give gold. Anyway, point being, whether or not the machinery that prints the bills is actually owned by them, the bills are still 100% their jurisdiction.
The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
There you have it. It was created by Congress. If you read the.pdf document on their General information page, there are such illuminating quotes as the following:
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was established as a federal government agency. It is made up of seven members appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
and
The Board of Governors exercises broad authority over the operations and activities of the Federal Reserve Banks and their Branches. This authority includes oversight of the Reserve Banks?
services to banks and other depository institutions and of their examination and supervision of various banking institutions.
Each Federal Reserve Bank must submit its annual budget to the Board of Governors for approval.
Got it? The Board is appointed by the President, and the Board controls the Banks. Finally, even if you were right, which you're not, I would still sleep comfortably. Quite frankly, I'd trust private banks just as much as governmental ones to run our monetary policy. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I've been wondering why, with the increasing ubiquity of dvd drives, people don't start putting software on DVD. Hell, I think it'd be a brilliant way of encouraging people to buy the commercial version of Linux distros. Don't want to burn 4 cds? (okay, right now most distros are at 3, but the 4th can't be far behind) Buy one DVD! Sure, they'll provide DVD images for download, but not many people have DVD burners. I'd love to be able to hit the install button, walk away, and not have to come back to change CD's midway through.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So we've got the processor, the input device (twiddler), the net connection (any of a variety of wireless modems), the power suppy (LiIon is cool...), but where the hell can I find a good display? The Sony Glasstron kicks ass, but the $400 version only hooks up to a TV out. The VGA version is more like $2000!
If only there were an easy way to hook a Linux equipped PS2 to a battery supply...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
First, it's not YOUR money. It ceased to be your money when you deposited it in the bank. At that point, you got a contract stating that they will pay you back the amount of money you GAVE them at a time of your choosing.
EVERY profession is like that. When a company goes bankrupt, all debts (such as the promise to pay you back) may be voided by a bankrupcy court. Instead, in the case of banks, the FDIC will ensure that, even if liquidating the company's assets is not enough to pay back outstanding debts, all account holders will still get up to $100,000 back. Then, this will be paid back through taxes. The advantage is, when the US Government incurs debt, they float bonds with the lowest interest rates available, thanks to their AAA credit rating. So, instead of you having to borrow money from another bank, at a rate based on your credit rating, society as a whole is borrowing money at a much lower interest rate.
In my ideal libertarian utopia, I would not have the FDIC around. However, if the Government is going to raise spending during a recession, I would rather they do it by paying back those who lost their money in a bank than by increasing farm subsidies, or some crap like that.
As for the Federal Reserve issue, I would like to see that decision, but whether the SCOTUS declared it legally private or not, it was broght into existence through a law, the chairman is selected by the president, its internal workings are prescribed by more laws, and they print our paper money. It is little more independent than the Post Office is.
Posting your comment as AC suggests you may not be so certain of yourself...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
A. Yes, true. However, in times of financial trouble, appropriate fiscal policy is to raise spending. Then, when the economy improves, one is supposed to pay down the debt incurred during the recession. Taxes ought to remain constant over the business cycle. So, if we're going to increase spending, it strikes me that paying back those who lost their money in defaulting banks is a pretty good way to get that money into circulation. Certainly it's a lot better than FDR's make work programs.
B. No, the Fed is an arm of the federal government. Unless you have a very peculiar definition of "private," then a bank whose chairman is appointed by the President, and gets its funding from Congress, sounds awfully public to me. I agree, it should be more accountable, they have far too much power, but that's a seperate issue.
C. Now you're moving into conspiracy theories.
If The Creature From Jekyll Island is filled with this kind of crap, then I beg to differ.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Because the FDIC is required by law to give you your money. The Fed is required by law to do whatever they damn well please. They are totally unaccountable. This is why many economists have argued for a law-based system instead (if the economic growth rate falls by x, cut interest rates by y), so this kind of crap doesn't happen. So far the "we need to be flexible" argument has prevailed though.
If the FDIC didn't give you your money, the US Government's credit rating would suffer, and as a result the interest rates they would have to pay for debts (and this is important, as debt payments make up some 15% of our annual budget) would increase. This would be a catastrophe, and will not happen in any sort of a reasonable scenario.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I feel I should point out that UBS PaineWebber, the company I work for, will not let client info out of the UBS umbrella. The only exception is for joint marketing agreements. This sounds bad, but actually means a product offered jointly, like if we were selling you a mutual fund, the fund company would need your info for business purposes. Our commitment to customer privacy probably has something to do with the fact that we're owned by a Swiss bank:)
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know, you don't have to resort to stuffing money under your mattress if you don't want your info going to telemarketers. Look around, I'm sure other firms operate the same way we do.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
However, I feel compelled to make a correction about the cause of the Great Depression. The REAL cause was that the Federal Reserve (due to a power struggle between the Governor from New York and the Chairman) tightened monetary supply instead of expanding it, as one is supposed to do during a financial crisis.
Yes, the banks made poor investments, but that happens sometimes, and the purpose of the Federal Reserve was to act as the lender of last resort in these cases. They have, fundamentally, ONE task, and they failed miserably at it. So, what would otherwise have been a recession turned into the worst depression ever in American history.
Furthermore, even if the banks were to fail again in the future, we now have the FDIC, which means that up to $100,000 of the money you have in the bank is insured by the full faith and credit of the US Government (AAA credit rating).
So, allowing banks to invest money is not going to lead to another Great Depression. For that matter, banks ALWAYS invest your money, through loans and the like. That's why they can afford to give you interest. Allowing them to use different instruments is not much of a change.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I believe that MandrakeUpdate is just the front end. Yes, it is very nice, but the underlying format is urpmi. My only beef with it is that there's no equivalent of Woody. You can update security packages, or update to cooker, but there's no "semi stable" distro to try.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Face it, Jackson was a fucking incompetent. Far from being an impartial judge, he ranted and raved about Microsoft to anyone who would hold still long enough for him to get going. Jackson had been warned about similar behavior in the past, and it was a virual certainty that he'd get bitchslapped for pulling the same crap again.
However, the fact that they KEPT his findings of fact means that Microsoft will not escape punishment. Far from being a blow to the case, this is the best outcome we could have hoped for, given Judge Jackson's mentally impaired behavior.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Revenue != profit. Hardware may have the highest revenues, but it also presumably has the highest expenses, and probably has an enormous net loss if they're deciding to can it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah... Microsoft would never do something like buy into Corel and then cancel their Linux distro... Not that it's any big deal, Corel was not that great of a company, but as long as the courts are ineffective against MS, they won't give a good goddamn whether their actions look anticompetitive or not.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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I think the title would best have been "People who care about that kind of PC bullshit are fucking morons"
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As a former British colony, there's actually a lot more english spoken among the educated classes than you'd expect in India. That's why there's so many software developers from there, because they can compete in the english speaking world.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah, actually, some American states were orignially penal colonies too, though I can't remember offhand which ones...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Unfortunately, I guess I was right all along. They were stretching themselves thin, they just didn't realize it because of poor bookkeeping. That's really too bad, Steve Jackson has always been an exceptionally cool guy. I think I'll head over to Warehouse 23 and buy myself a copy of Deluxe Illuminati, since I've always been curious about that game.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The fact of the matter is, when you work at a small company, you grow to trust people. When you grow to trust people, you manage them less (and generally speaking, that's a good thing, if someone is competent, they shouldn't have to have you giving them anally retentive directions). Unfortunately, good people can get locked in destructive cycles such as the one above, where they tell themselves "if I just work extra hard tomorrow, then I don't need to work on this today," making the task ever more daunting, until finally the whole thing falls apart, as in this case.
I've seen this happen in high school (our yearbook was a year late once, because the faculty coordinator, who was a really great guy, suffered from the above problem), I've had it happen to me in college, and I see it all the time on a smaller scale in people's personal lives. Good, competent people sometimes fuck up, and fuck up big time, and so the only solution (which is not a solution at all) is to trust no one.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So, towards that end, does anyone know of any sites that go into the internals of the power supply, or explain how to hack it to work off a battery? I don't want to buy one to take apart without at least some kind of reassurance that it's a doable project. If the power adaptor were external, it'd be real easy, but unfortunately not..
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But, they also compared it to Pac Man, so maybe the two will balance each other out. "Yeah, sure boss, it is that virus OS. But remember, it's also like Pac Man. I'll let you play if you want."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Or were you just referring to computer consumption habits, like sticking with mainframes as the article discusses? That doesn't seem too great either. I'm confused...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
He didn't just break "things," he broke toys. That's what makes it such an, er, apt name.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Now then, from http://www.federalreserve.gov:
The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
There you have it. It was created by Congress. If you read the .pdf document on their General information page, there are such illuminating quotes as the following:
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was established as a federal government agency. It is made up of seven members appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
and
The Board of Governors exercises broad authority over the operations and activities of the Federal Reserve Banks and their Branches. This authority includes oversight of the Reserve Banks? services to banks and other depository institutions and of their examination and supervision of various banking institutions. Each Federal Reserve Bank must submit its annual budget to the Board of Governors for approval.
Got it? The Board is appointed by the President, and the Board controls the Banks. Finally, even if you were right, which you're not, I would still sleep comfortably. Quite frankly, I'd trust private banks just as much as governmental ones to run our monetary policy.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I've been wondering why, with the increasing ubiquity of dvd drives, people don't start putting software on DVD. Hell, I think it'd be a brilliant way of encouraging people to buy the commercial version of Linux distros. Don't want to burn 4 cds? (okay, right now most distros are at 3, but the 4th can't be far behind) Buy one DVD! Sure, they'll provide DVD images for download, but not many people have DVD burners. I'd love to be able to hit the install button, walk away, and not have to come back to change CD's midway through.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If only there were an easy way to hook a Linux equipped PS2 to a battery supply...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
EVERY profession is like that. When a company goes bankrupt, all debts (such as the promise to pay you back) may be voided by a bankrupcy court. Instead, in the case of banks, the FDIC will ensure that, even if liquidating the company's assets is not enough to pay back outstanding debts, all account holders will still get up to $100,000 back. Then, this will be paid back through taxes. The advantage is, when the US Government incurs debt, they float bonds with the lowest interest rates available, thanks to their AAA credit rating. So, instead of you having to borrow money from another bank, at a rate based on your credit rating, society as a whole is borrowing money at a much lower interest rate.
In my ideal libertarian utopia, I would not have the FDIC around. However, if the Government is going to raise spending during a recession, I would rather they do it by paying back those who lost their money in a bank than by increasing farm subsidies, or some crap like that.
As for the Federal Reserve issue, I would like to see that decision, but whether the SCOTUS declared it legally private or not, it was broght into existence through a law, the chairman is selected by the president, its internal workings are prescribed by more laws, and they print our paper money. It is little more independent than the Post Office is.
Posting your comment as AC suggests you may not be so certain of yourself...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
B. No, the Fed is an arm of the federal government. Unless you have a very peculiar definition of "private," then a bank whose chairman is appointed by the President, and gets its funding from Congress, sounds awfully public to me. I agree, it should be more accountable, they have far too much power, but that's a seperate issue.
C. Now you're moving into conspiracy theories.
If The Creature From Jekyll Island is filled with this kind of crap, then I beg to differ.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If the FDIC didn't give you your money, the US Government's credit rating would suffer, and as a result the interest rates they would have to pay for debts (and this is important, as debt payments make up some 15% of our annual budget) would increase. This would be a catastrophe, and will not happen in any sort of a reasonable scenario.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know, you don't have to resort to stuffing money under your mattress if you don't want your info going to telemarketers. Look around, I'm sure other firms operate the same way we do.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes, the banks made poor investments, but that happens sometimes, and the purpose of the Federal Reserve was to act as the lender of last resort in these cases. They have, fundamentally, ONE task, and they failed miserably at it. So, what would otherwise have been a recession turned into the worst depression ever in American history.
Furthermore, even if the banks were to fail again in the future, we now have the FDIC, which means that up to $100,000 of the money you have in the bank is insured by the full faith and credit of the US Government (AAA credit rating).
So, allowing banks to invest money is not going to lead to another Great Depression. For that matter, banks ALWAYS invest your money, through loans and the like. That's why they can afford to give you interest. Allowing them to use different instruments is not much of a change.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Right, and MandrakeFreq is cool, but you need to download the isos, you can't update via MandrakeUpdate.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I believe that MandrakeUpdate is just the front end. Yes, it is very nice, but the underlying format is urpmi. My only beef with it is that there's no equivalent of Woody. You can update security packages, or update to cooker, but there's no "semi stable" distro to try.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Isn't Reiser a hobbyist project? Generally, commercial means funded by a corporation for profit. So XFS would be first, and JFS would be second.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
However, the fact that they KEPT his findings of fact means that Microsoft will not escape punishment. Far from being a blow to the case, this is the best outcome we could have hoped for, given Judge Jackson's mentally impaired behavior.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Webvan's down to $35 million, so we could get them for about 1/10th the cost.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Where do you work? I'll check for you :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Revenue != profit. Hardware may have the highest revenues, but it also presumably has the highest expenses, and probably has an enormous net loss if they're deciding to can it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah... Microsoft would never do something like buy into Corel and then cancel their Linux distro... Not that it's any big deal, Corel was not that great of a company, but as long as the courts are ineffective against MS, they won't give a good goddamn whether their actions look anticompetitive or not.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.