Unions and contractors are not the same thing at all. My friends father was a pipefitter, a highly skilled job. He was not an employee of any company, he was a member of the pipefitters union. When someone had industrial plumbing to be done they would contact the union, the union posted the job, and someone took it. That person then paid a percentage of their wages to the union, and the union in turn had pension and benefits services for the members. The union also determined the wages for pipefitters.
A contractor, on the other hand, is either self-employeed, or employees other people. People hire the contractor, and he pays his employees. The rate the contractor is paid may be much different than what he pays his employees.
This isn't about 'a bunch of guys chatting', it is about actual crimes. And if there is more than one person involved then, by definition, it is a conspiracy.
Consumer stuff is inexpensive because of economies of scale. The market for digital backs for old cameras is bound to be pretty small, so those economies of scale will not be achieved, and the cost will be high.
It completely boggles your mind? Really? Does it completely boggle your mind why there are libraries too?
Let's say we both have $100 to spend on movies for a year. For that money, I can get a subscription to Netflix, and if I want to watch one movie a day at the end of the year I will have seen 365 different movies. For the same money, you can buy what, a dozen DVDs? If you want to watch a movie a day, you can watch a total of 12 movies, 30 times each. Sounds great.
We have about 250 DVDs that we purchased over the years. Three years ago I spent a few weeks ripping them to a media server. Worked great. Last month I was looking at the server, and noticed that of the 250 titles, exactly EIGHT had been accessed since they were ripped. In three years! As soon as I put media players in each room, those players could also stream Netflix, and that is all anyone used. Those 242 unaccessed title don't represent some great asset I 'own', they represent thousands of dollars of wasted money.
Well, if you absolutely need a guarantee that a given movie (or whatever) will be available at a given time, then you must have your own copy. But how often is that actually the case?
First, 'the house' has no stake in the outcome of the race, and never loses money on a race, so you are never playing with house money.
Second, 'the odds' are not the chances of the horse winning (which would be impossible to calculate), it is the amount of money you get paid if the horse does win. For instance, the amount paid for the 'win' position is determined by taking all of the money bet on the 'win' position (minus the tracks cut), and dividing it among the winning tickets. The odds printed in the program are just a prediction of what the BETTING will look like.
How do you think they calculate the predicted odds, which you use to make your selections? By studying the stats and the like. The fact that you don't lose much using your method shows that studying the stats DOES lead to a better outcome than chance (if you know what you are looking at, of course).
There is no 'market failure', there are just a bunch of idiots who take the high rate cards that get sent to them. Shop around. Both credit unions I belong to offer no-fee Visa cards (with rewards) with under 10% interest rates.
The DMCA does not forbid bypassing security measures, it forbids bypassing technological copyright protection methods. Furthermore, it specifically ALLOWS security testing, with the permission of the owner or operator of the thing being tested.
Certainly. What is wrong with that? I'd say 90% of the email conversations with my boss are simple questions, and simple responses suffice. Are you suggesting there is a difference between selecting 'Yes' from a list of responses and typing 'Yes'? And note that this is specifically talking about MOBILE devices, and often when I intend to type Yes I wind up with Ues which is then helpfully autocorrected to Use, which makes no sense at all.
Huh? The icon in the system tray with a big red 'X', that when moused over said 'Initiate OS/2 Shutdown' was not obvious? Or even just Ctrl-Alt-Del (ok, that actually did a reboot, but you could just kill the power when the BIOS screen came up).
Seriously? 'Service bureaus' selling efficiently shared computing resources have been around since the 1960s (5 decades ago). Virtual machines have been in use since at least 1972 (4 decades ago). LPARs, allowing things like capping of resources, have been around since the 1980s (3 decades ago). Parallel Sysplexes, allowing sharing of data and movement of workload, every across a wide geograpahy, have been available since 1990 (2.5 decades ago).
The only thing 'new' is the concept of a provider having paid-for-but-unused capacity sitting around in case someone needs it. Maybe someday the PC world will catch up to the mainframes and have unused-and-NOT-paid-for capacity until seconds before it is required.
You do know that GE is a global company, with facilities all over the world, right? Unless your brilliant proposal is that they build their own worldwide network, connecting every office, plant, etc, all that data is going over the Internet anyway.
If you have a package to ship across the country, do you drive it there yourself, or do you give it to UPS? If you want to be connected to the internet, do you run your own fibers, etc, or contract with an ISP? If you want a server, do you build your own fab and make your own chips, or do you buy servers or components from someone else?
All businesses rely on other businesses for critical things. They are called suppliers, and the way you do business with them is through a new invention called the contract.
No, having everything use GMT does NOT make it easier to coordinate people. While you may be starting work at 1630GMT, I am leaving then. How did it get any easier to coordinate? The only thing it would do is make it easier to COMMUNICATE times across boundaries, and the number of times that happens without a computer involved is a very, very tiny fraction of all of the other uses of time.
And you are completely disregarding the cultural uses of time. If I say 5PM (or 1700) to you, what image does that evoke? Probably end of the work day, etc, no matter where you are in the world. If I say 1700GMT to you, what image does that evoke? It will be differerent everywhere. The VAST majority of our references to time is LOCAL to us. It makes no sense at all to switch to using some global time.
That works fine if you are the only person involved. In real life, most of us interact with other people, businesses, etc. And that requires synchronized time.
So if we use your idea of not changing the clocks, but changing what time we do things, that means that every time there is an adjustment (to keep us synced up with the sun), EVERY SINGLE REFERENCE to time must change. Businesses are open different hours, meetings happen at different times, appointments occur at different times, etc. Not only that, but cultural references to time would lose their meaning: a book that describes events happening at 200 are now occuring in the middle of the day. Time has lost its meaning.
Ot, we could do the logical thing, and adjust the clocks every once in a while. Gets even easier to do as more and more things use a common time reference like NTP.
Those are some pretty pathetic examples. First of all, the vast majority of HUMAN use of time is in the persons own local time. Yes, people do communicate with each other over long distances, but those interactions are certainly a very small percentage of the usage of time.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had the same noon? No, it would not. No matter where you are in the world, 'noon' (if whatever language) has the same connotations: the sun is at its highest, most people are up and about, many people are getting ready for lunch, etc. Same thing for midnight. What is happening at 2AM (or 0200 if you prefer)? Most people are in bed. What is happening at 0200 UTC? Everything. The time has lost its sense of meaning. Noon is a perfectly good time for me to contact you, unless your 'noon' happens to occur in the middle of the night. The purpose of time, unlike your statement, is not simply to synchronize human activity, it permeates our culture. When you hear Billy Joel sing 'Its nine oclock on a Saturday' I'll be you have a pretty good mental image of what that means, and it does not entail people going out for breakfast, or sleeping, or working at the office.
I'll see you in six hours. In what way is that ambiguous? 'In six hours' means six hours from now, it does not matter how you measure that six hours.
If you actually saw a game where the announcer said 'the game starts at 7', chances are it was a LOCAL broadcast, and the time of course refers to LOCAL time. On national broadcasts they ALWAYS give at least 2 times (usually Eastern and Pacific). Nobody (expect you, apparently) has any difficulty understanding what they mean.
At 7 ET. Yes, there most certainly IS an 'ET', it is the Eastern time zone. EDT or EST ONLY matters if you are using an offset from UTC, which most of the time you are not. At 7ET means 'in the Eastern time zone, the game starts at 7PM local time'. Nothing ambiguous about it. Again, you may be the only person who can't figure this out.
And again, for games next week, there is ZERO ambiguity. The game starts at 7PM ON THAT DAY, regardless of what happens to the clocks between now and then.
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Unions and contractors are not the same thing at all. My friends father was a pipefitter, a highly skilled job. He was not an employee of any company, he was a member of the pipefitters union. When someone had industrial plumbing to be done they would contact the union, the union posted the job, and someone took it. That person then paid a percentage of their wages to the union, and the union in turn had pension and benefits services for the members. The union also determined the wages for pipefitters.
A contractor, on the other hand, is either self-employeed, or employees other people. People hire the contractor, and he pays his employees. The rate the contractor is paid may be much different than what he pays his employees.
This isn't about 'a bunch of guys chatting', it is about actual crimes. And if there is more than one person involved then, by definition, it is a conspiracy.
The link is right next to the title, like is has been for all Slashdot articles for a while.
Consumer stuff is inexpensive because of economies of scale. The market for digital backs for old cameras is bound to be pretty small, so those economies of scale will not be achieved, and the cost will be high.
Market cap means nothing, and is only cited by idiots. Red Hat does NOT sell software, they sell service.
It completely boggles your mind? Really? Does it completely boggle your mind why there are libraries too?
Let's say we both have $100 to spend on movies for a year. For that money, I can get a subscription to Netflix, and if I want to watch one movie a day at the end of the year I will have seen 365 different movies. For the same money, you can buy what, a dozen DVDs? If you want to watch a movie a day, you can watch a total of 12 movies, 30 times each. Sounds great.
We have about 250 DVDs that we purchased over the years. Three years ago I spent a few weeks ripping them to a media server. Worked great. Last month I was looking at the server, and noticed that of the 250 titles, exactly EIGHT had been accessed since they were ripped. In three years! As soon as I put media players in each room, those players could also stream Netflix, and that is all anyone used. Those 242 unaccessed title don't represent some great asset I 'own', they represent thousands of dollars of wasted money.
Well, if you absolutely need a guarantee that a given movie (or whatever) will be available at a given time, then you must have your own copy. But how often is that actually the case?
A, B, C, and D
A, B, C and D
The comma after the 'C' in the first example is the Oxford comma.
Two things.
First, 'the house' has no stake in the outcome of the race, and never loses money on a race, so you are never playing with house money.
Second, 'the odds' are not the chances of the horse winning (which would be impossible to calculate), it is the amount of money you get paid if the horse does win. For instance, the amount paid for the 'win' position is determined by taking all of the money bet on the 'win' position (minus the tracks cut), and dividing it among the winning tickets. The odds printed in the program are just a prediction of what the BETTING will look like.
How do you think they calculate the predicted odds, which you use to make your selections? By studying the stats and the like. The fact that you don't lose much using your method shows that studying the stats DOES lead to a better outcome than chance (if you know what you are looking at, of course).
'Shopping around' inquiries do not count against you. Loan application inquiries do.
There is no 'market failure', there are just a bunch of idiots who take the high rate cards that get sent to them. Shop around. Both credit unions I belong to offer no-fee Visa cards (with rewards) with under 10% interest rates.
He owns the pump, he can test it.
The DMCA does not forbid bypassing security measures, it forbids bypassing technological copyright protection methods. Furthermore, it specifically ALLOWS security testing, with the permission of the owner or operator of the thing being tested.
Certainly. What is wrong with that? I'd say 90% of the email conversations with my boss are simple questions, and simple responses suffice. Are you suggesting there is a difference between selecting 'Yes' from a list of responses and typing 'Yes'? And note that this is specifically talking about MOBILE devices, and often when I intend to type Yes I wind up with Ues which is then helpfully autocorrected to Use, which makes no sense at all.
It doesn't say it automatically responds, it says it presents YOU with three quick responses you can send. Just saves some typing.
Huh? The icon in the system tray with a big red 'X', that when moused over said 'Initiate OS/2 Shutdown' was not obvious? Or even just Ctrl-Alt-Del (ok, that actually did a reboot, but you could just kill the power when the BIOS screen came up).
Seriously? 'Service bureaus' selling efficiently shared computing resources have been around since the 1960s (5 decades ago). Virtual machines have been in use since at least 1972 (4 decades ago). LPARs, allowing things like capping of resources, have been around since the 1980s (3 decades ago). Parallel Sysplexes, allowing sharing of data and movement of workload, every across a wide geograpahy, have been available since 1990 (2.5 decades ago).
The only thing 'new' is the concept of a provider having paid-for-but-unused capacity sitting around in case someone needs it. Maybe someday the PC world will catch up to the mainframes and have unused-and-NOT-paid-for capacity until seconds before it is required.
You do know that GE is a global company, with facilities all over the world, right? Unless your brilliant proposal is that they build their own worldwide network, connecting every office, plant, etc, all that data is going over the Internet anyway.
If you have a package to ship across the country, do you drive it there yourself, or do you give it to UPS? If you want to be connected to the internet, do you run your own fibers, etc, or contract with an ISP? If you want a server, do you build your own fab and make your own chips, or do you buy servers or components from someone else?
All businesses rely on other businesses for critical things. They are called suppliers, and the way you do business with them is through a new invention called the contract.
Nope. Industrial operations had $110B in revenue, $18B in profit. GE Capital had $43B in revenue, $7B in profit.
When you have to start narrowing your definition of the market in order to be able to claim dominance, you know you have no case.
The only sector that would matter is retailers. And since Walmart has about 5x the revenue of Amazon, they certainly are not the dominant retailer.
No, having everything use GMT does NOT make it easier to coordinate people. While you may be starting work at 1630GMT, I am leaving then. How did it get any easier to coordinate? The only thing it would do is make it easier to COMMUNICATE times across boundaries, and the number of times that happens without a computer involved is a very, very tiny fraction of all of the other uses of time.
And you are completely disregarding the cultural uses of time. If I say 5PM (or 1700) to you, what image does that evoke? Probably end of the work day, etc, no matter where you are in the world. If I say 1700GMT to you, what image does that evoke? It will be differerent everywhere. The VAST majority of our references to time is LOCAL to us. It makes no sense at all to switch to using some global time.
That works fine if you are the only person involved. In real life, most of us interact with other people, businesses, etc. And that requires synchronized time.
So if we use your idea of not changing the clocks, but changing what time we do things, that means that every time there is an adjustment (to keep us synced up with the sun), EVERY SINGLE REFERENCE to time must change. Businesses are open different hours, meetings happen at different times, appointments occur at different times, etc. Not only that, but cultural references to time would lose their meaning: a book that describes events happening at 200 are now occuring in the middle of the day. Time has lost its meaning.
Ot, we could do the logical thing, and adjust the clocks every once in a while. Gets even easier to do as more and more things use a common time reference like NTP.
Those are some pretty pathetic examples. First of all, the vast majority of HUMAN use of time is in the persons own local time. Yes, people do communicate with each other over long distances, but those interactions are certainly a very small percentage of the usage of time.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had the same noon? No, it would not. No matter where you are in the world, 'noon' (if whatever language) has the same connotations: the sun is at its highest, most people are up and about, many people are getting ready for lunch, etc. Same thing for midnight. What is happening at 2AM (or 0200 if you prefer)? Most people are in bed. What is happening at 0200 UTC? Everything. The time has lost its sense of meaning. Noon is a perfectly good time for me to contact you, unless your 'noon' happens to occur in the middle of the night. The purpose of time, unlike your statement, is not simply to synchronize human activity, it permeates our culture. When you hear Billy Joel sing 'Its nine oclock on a Saturday' I'll be you have a pretty good mental image of what that means, and it does not entail people going out for breakfast, or sleeping, or working at the office.
I'll see you in six hours. In what way is that ambiguous? 'In six hours' means six hours from now, it does not matter how you measure that six hours.
If you actually saw a game where the announcer said 'the game starts at 7', chances are it was a LOCAL broadcast, and the time of course refers to LOCAL time. On national broadcasts they ALWAYS give at least 2 times (usually Eastern and Pacific). Nobody (expect you, apparently) has any difficulty understanding what they mean.
At 7 ET. Yes, there most certainly IS an 'ET', it is the Eastern time zone. EDT or EST ONLY matters if you are using an offset from UTC, which most of the time you are not. At 7ET means 'in the Eastern time zone, the game starts at 7PM local time'. Nothing ambiguous about it. Again, you may be the only person who can't figure this out.
And again, for games next week, there is ZERO ambiguity. The game starts at 7PM ON THAT DAY, regardless of what happens to the clocks between now and then.