A study actually concluded that the average G rated movie has 11 time the profit as the average R rated movie. G rated movies were also rated overall most profitable.
Although Linux at least does have 'SE Linux', AppArmor, Exec Shield, support for ASLR, etc, etc so its more a case that its just not on by default yet. (Ironically a complaint usually levelled at Windows).
Remember, they built the bulletproof shelter for explosions then in a much later episode discovered that the material wasn't bulletproof.
I'm actually wondering if they were standing behind that shelter during this blast, and what condition it's in now.
That shelter they stand behind is basically the equivalent of safety glasses for your whole body. No, my safety glasses won't protect my eyes from a bullet, but when stuff starts flying, I'm glad I'm wearing them.
Actually, ammonium nitrate is an oxidizer. It has to be combined with some type of fuel to explode. One could be reasonably safe by simply transporting the oxidizer and the fuel separately. This is probably why the Mythbusters chose to use it.
What, did EVERYONE (including Fire Marshall Bill) forget to bring their handy dandy bomb-squad approved $10 calculator with them that day?
I'm guessing they underestimated the burn rate of the explosives. This is probably due to the high variability in quality of ammonium nitrate. They may have done the calculations for agricultural grade ammonium nitrate, and used another.
I don't think spawn would've been any better with whatever they cut.
That wasn't my point. My point was, look at the violence in that film and the violence in Dark Knight. Spawn had difficulties getting a PG-13 rating and Dark Knight didn't (to my knowledge).
Things like Dark Knight would have ended up with an R rating in the past.
I would contrast Dark Knight with Spawn. I'm not suggesting that Spawn is on the same level of quality as Dark Knight, but much of the movie was cut to get the PG-13 rating. Apparently, this was mostly because the movie dealt with the concept of Hell.
In contrast, I haven't heard of many G rated movies lately. From what I've heard, many older films wouldn't be able to get a G rating if they were made today.
If it's really as open as they claim, all the accounting will be public, too. So anyone who wants to do some work can see how much the company is spending on those operating expenses, and the (ongoing) income statements. If they accept it as reasonable, they can do the work, or they can just not do the work.
The accounting records of all publicly traded companies in the US is public knowledge. You can find them here.
Traditionally, people always squabble over the retained earnings line of the accounting statement. This is usually a big bargaining chip for unions against publicly traded companies. Although, all well run companies should have some retained earnings, no one can agree on how much is too much or too little.
I only realised afterwards that on top of their pitiful salary, the company directors actually owned 30% of the company each. So for every hour of consulting work I did, their net worth went up by about $25 each (there were three of 'em).
Owning the company is quite different. The money they received was their reward for taking the financial risk of starting the company. If they did a bad job of running it, they could have lost their life savings.
I should point out that a CEO does not necessarily own the company. The CEO is hired by the company's owners to be in charge of day to day operations. Many times the company's owners select one of themselves to be the CEO, but this is not necessarily the case. It's a job just like any other.
What people are currently upset about is that many corporate CEOs lost the owner's money, yet still collected millions in bonuses. That's just wrong.
Making tasty ice cream in an old gas station for your friends and neighbors to buy and eat is a hell of a lot more intrinsically motivating than exchange rates, tariffs, multi-national labor costs, questionable human rights practices in low cost source countries, etc. etc.
Another tough area Mr. Toyoda must tackle promptly is the excess manufacturing capacity in Japan. In the late 1990s, when a strong yen made Japan a costly place to make cars, Toyota slashed capacity at home and added production overseas.
But the yen reversed its direction, weakening to as low as 120 to the dollar between 2005 to 2007. Toyota decided to take advantage and do more of its manufacturing at home, since a weak yen has the effect of making exports more profitable. By 2007, it was producing 4.23 million vehicles in Japan -- a million more than it made just eight years before.
That move was directly at odds with Toyota's long-held philosophy not to make long-term decisions on where to put factories, based on short-term currency-exchange rates, which can swing rapidly.
It's best not to worry about these things and concentrate on the product. Due to the decisions made above, Toyota lost money for the first time in 59 years.
The article also notes:
Akio Toyoda has long preached a traditional Toyota practice called genchi genbutsu, a leadership maxim that boils down to get out of your office and visit the source of the problem. For the past year, Mr. Toyoda has been practicing genchi genbutsu to quietly collect evidence that the company had strayed, according to people familiar with the situation.
A CEO that will go out into the factory and make some ice cream is exactly what Ben and Jerry needed.
The world is frequently NOT a logical place because it is populated by many more stupid people making illogical decisions than smart people making intelligent and rational ones. This results in much of the available capital being concentrated, for various reasons having little to do with relative IQ, in the hands of people who are ambitious, corrupt, and ruthless but not necessarily smart.
I'm with you up to this point.
However, it is simplistic to say that because engineers are not the most wealthy members of society Ayn Rand was absolutely wrong.
You lost me here. I think you are trying to say that Ayn Rand makes the incorrect assumption that corruption doesn't exist. However, it's this assumption that makes her wrong.
Today's John Galt is the man stuck in middle management, struggling against the corruption at the top, not the proletariat.
I'm afraid her ideas are just like the communism she is arguing against, good on paper, but impractical in real life.
They guy who sucks up to everyone and buys them beers after work will have the highest pay, while the guy who does his shitty job in silent magnificence will have one of the lowest pays. In addition, everyone in a group will rate their own group members higher than they rate other group's members.
Oh, well that sounds strikingly familiar to our current corporate hierarchy.
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But aren't these things fairly well shielded anyway?
Exactly, I think this whole article is alarmist, it doesn't even mention any of these possible protection devices.
I thought we had circuit breakers to prevent these problems.
Solar storm comes and trips breakers
Solar storm passes, reset breakers
See, not so bad.
A study actually concluded that the average G rated movie has 11 time the profit as the average R rated movie. G rated movies were also rated overall most profitable.
I'm beginning to think this "Mac zealot" business is a figment of overly sensitive Windows users imaginations.
You've never complained about a Mac and been modded into oblivion, have you?
Although Linux at least does have 'SE Linux', AppArmor, Exec Shield, support for ASLR, etc, etc so its more a case that its just not on by default yet. (Ironically a complaint usually levelled at Windows).
Please vote to stop this nonsense.
Remember, they built the bulletproof shelter for explosions then in a much later episode discovered that the material wasn't bulletproof.
I'm actually wondering if they were standing behind that shelter during this blast, and what condition it's in now.
That shelter they stand behind is basically the equivalent of safety glasses for your whole body. No, my safety glasses won't protect my eyes from a bullet, but when stuff starts flying, I'm glad I'm wearing them.
They could have saved a bunch of time and money by simply setting up that server in the town of Esparto, California.
ammonium nitrate is very, um, explosive
Actually, ammonium nitrate is an oxidizer. It has to be combined with some type of fuel to explode. One could be reasonably safe by simply transporting the oxidizer and the fuel separately. This is probably why the Mythbusters chose to use it.
Plus Kari needs a bigger rack.
Looks like you will be getting what you asked for, Kari is pregnant.
Yes, they usually don't handle explosives by themselves. They have someone in law enforcement do it for them.
If they had thought there was a safety issue warranting warnings...
they would have done the experiment somewhere else.
What, did EVERYONE (including Fire Marshall Bill) forget to bring their handy dandy bomb-squad approved $10 calculator with them that day?
I'm guessing they underestimated the burn rate of the explosives. This is probably due to the high variability in quality of ammonium nitrate. They may have done the calculations for agricultural grade ammonium nitrate, and used another.
I don't think spawn would've been any better with whatever they cut.
That wasn't my point. My point was, look at the violence in that film and the violence in Dark Knight. Spawn had difficulties getting a PG-13 rating and Dark Knight didn't (to my knowledge).
Things like Dark Knight would have ended up with an R rating in the past.
I would contrast Dark Knight with Spawn. I'm not suggesting that Spawn is on the same level of quality as Dark Knight, but much of the movie was cut to get the PG-13 rating. Apparently, this was mostly because the movie dealt with the concept of Hell.
In contrast, I haven't heard of many G rated movies lately. From what I've heard, many older films wouldn't be able to get a G rating if they were made today.
And so it begins... letting others make your decisions is the essence of slavery.
Don't think of it as slavery, that's such a harsh word. Think of yourselves as...
pets! You'll make great pets.
America and France have a long history of helping each other out of tight situations
Yeah, like that time the French helped the Americans in Vietnam...
Oh, wait...
It's hard as hell to make it your only desktop; you'll spend all your time wrangling with WINE. Why bother?
Sounds like somebody hasn't looked for FOSS alternatives to his or her software.
that Canonical is doing what he's been trying to do for years.
If it's really as open as they claim, all the accounting will be public, too. So anyone who wants to do some work can see how much the company is spending on those operating expenses, and the (ongoing) income statements. If they accept it as reasonable, they can do the work, or they can just not do the work.
The accounting records of all publicly traded companies in the US is public knowledge. You can find them here.
Traditionally, people always squabble over the retained earnings line of the accounting statement. This is usually a big bargaining chip for unions against publicly traded companies. Although, all well run companies should have some retained earnings, no one can agree on how much is too much or too little.
I only realised afterwards that on top of their pitiful salary, the company directors actually owned 30% of the company each. So for every hour of consulting work I did, their net worth went up by about $25 each (there were three of 'em).
Owning the company is quite different. The money they received was their reward for taking the financial risk of starting the company. If they did a bad job of running it, they could have lost their life savings.
I should point out that a CEO does not necessarily own the company. The CEO is hired by the company's owners to be in charge of day to day operations. Many times the company's owners select one of themselves to be the CEO, but this is not necessarily the case. It's a job just like any other.
What people are currently upset about is that many corporate CEOs lost the owner's money, yet still collected millions in bonuses. That's just wrong.
Making tasty ice cream in an old gas station for your friends and neighbors to buy and eat is a hell of a lot more intrinsically motivating than exchange rates, tariffs, multi-national labor costs, questionable human rights practices in low cost source countries, etc. etc.
From the Wall Street Journal:
It's best not to worry about these things and concentrate on the product. Due to the decisions made above, Toyota lost money for the first time in 59 years.
The article also notes:
A CEO that will go out into the factory and make some ice cream is exactly what Ben and Jerry needed.
The world is frequently NOT a logical place because it is populated by many more stupid people making illogical decisions than smart people making intelligent and rational ones. This results in much of the available capital being concentrated, for various reasons having little to do with relative IQ, in the hands of people who are ambitious, corrupt, and ruthless but not necessarily smart.
I'm with you up to this point.
However, it is simplistic to say that because engineers are not the most wealthy members of society Ayn Rand was absolutely wrong.
You lost me here. I think you are trying to say that Ayn Rand makes the incorrect assumption that corruption doesn't exist. However, it's this assumption that makes her wrong.
Today's John Galt is the man stuck in middle management, struggling against the corruption at the top, not the proletariat.
I'm afraid her ideas are just like the communism she is arguing against, good on paper, but impractical in real life.
After some research, I discovered that what I'm talking about is called the Planetary Phase of Civilization.
but what about pressure ulcers?
They guy who sucks up to everyone and buys them beers after work will have the highest pay, while the guy who does his shitty job in silent magnificence will have one of the lowest pays. In addition, everyone in a group will rate their own group members higher than they rate other group's members.
Oh, well that sounds strikingly familiar to our current corporate hierarchy.
Nothing to see here, move along!