Ideally, fuel efficient cars will keep the peaks down. There for a while we were PHYSICALLY using less gas, not just using less than PROJECTED.
This is such a silly thing. We all talk about USING less gas, and now we ARE. Rather than tell everybody "good job" we have to keep up with the FUD that we're hurting their profits?
Well prices went through the roof when Bush was a lame duck and dropped when Obama got into office... Maybe there is something to that? Let's see what happens in September-October....
Prices are more to do with supply and demand and if refineries are running well prices stay down because we don't have "emergencies". Remember too, CONSUMER usage has been going down, and modern efficient cars are keeping the numbers flatter than in the past when it would go up. Thats why truck fuel (traditionally less than consumer fuel) has been steadily higher the last few years, because it used to be a "byproduct" of making gasoline. Trucks can't "not drive" like people do, so the numbers had to adjust.
Craig's list would do this THEMSELVES but they would have to PAY GOOGLE to use Google Maps without properly handing over Ad Revenue and search data to Google.
Effectively PaperMapper is doing free processing tI feed Google's search engine!
To be fair, it's free to post for many cases, so they make their money from ad revenue. If you scrape their site, you get the revenue not them. That's money out of their pocket.
Most sites you can't just scrape... Isn't this basically the same thing we were just harping on FunnyJunk for doing to Web Comics sites? It's been like this for years now.
Remember the HDTV spec was finalized in the 1990's and it took how long to get prices down?
Then again, Apple is shipping 2880x1800 laptops and 2048x1536 iPads right now... "HDTV" (especially non blu-ray or broadcast) is barely able to fill the current screens.
The market for said employees is very small in the first place... Maybe 10,000 in the USA. 3/4 of the companies train their people (or only hire vets, etc)... But pay 2/3 the going rate. The others are new players that poach from everybody and are horrible to work for.
You can't move up, and you can't get that magic 20% moving anywhere else. So after 5-10 years of dedicated experience you move laterally into another market... Leaving the impossible to fill job description behind.
Consumer credit is pushing 25% and they got used to hooking half the customers on $35 per month over/late/renewal fees. Gross on the books is more like %50 on what the bank puts in per year... As long as the people keep paying.
Same with housing. Banks REALLY didn't want to give those "flat" 6% rates so they invented ways to get you to overspend for 2% now and 12% in 5 years. The Mortgage Backed Securities were sold on that idea.
Queue the guy with less than average credit but 20% down wanting those deals on TV and they got no interest.
Same with the small business that needs $1m in upgrades... They aren't willing to pay more than 5%-7% because their accountant knows that's still double what thaws pay borrowing $20M. At the same time the local bank would rather give the $1M out for 15% car loans or consumer credit cards at 25%....
So back on track, the financial markets are telling one side that 1% wage raises per year is unreasonable... And the other side that interest at 25% is great. Is it a wonder that small business versus employees is so hostile?
How about the SKILL that is missing is understanding what your business needs 2,3,5 years and then making sure you have an employee working toward that.
McDonald's has a saying "Green is Growing". It's profound in that they are one of the few companies that PLAN for you to move up or leave... They are built around training at every level. You are either training or being trained... In the best stores that is ALWAYS going on. Leaving because you finished school or life moves on is PART of the plan, not a problem.
I don't know how many you go into and everybody has 10-20 years at the company. If the boss isn't moving up, then the whole food gain is stalled because the only way UP is OUT they have nobody BEHIND YOU, so they're stuck trying to fill your exact job and pay grade without giving anybody ELSE promotions or raises. When there are only 10-20 people in a department that's a standstill.
The people are starving is about POWER not somebody with expensive toys. The people in charge of those African places would rather use the food as BAIT and shoot the starving subjects that need it than share.
There are income disparities, but that has nothing to do with the African situation of each regime pulling "slash n burn" and "scorched earth" tactics on their own countrymen.
You can't RULE people that have plenty of food and water but few other resources... So you take what they have away. Power for the sake of POWER.
Ask IPhone owners if they care... We will get ios 6 in a few months. While you're waiting on Win 8 or ICS we'll be gliding along in the iCloud. iPhone 4 ownes will start dropping off cltheir contracts, free to buy "new shiny" when Apple releases it in October.
But the version number of the OS is the same, so the apps "just work" even if the devs had to cut something out ( and I have a few apps with grey buttons on my 3GS) but its SUPPORTED. Apps released.today.. We can has them!
And when we upgrade to iPad or iPhone 6? All the apps come along too... And the data in the cloud. When I bought my ipad2 it was loaded up with $300+ in apps I already paid for on the iPhone... I'm counting minutes for the next iPhone because my contract will be up and its a HUGE upgrade of stuff I ALREADY bought! (which is the same reason people keep buying windows on the desktop)
But other than apps specifically for front facing cameras I have not run into more than one or two apps on the App Store that don't work just fine on my 3GS. THAT is what I care about, not being FORCED to get a new phone just to be sure Angry Birds doesn't stop supporting my version. I don't expect new features tied to hardware (ok, sometimes that's questionable) but I'm not being LEFT OUT from buying new regular apps.
Apple still ships the 3GS so it will get ios6. Just clocked 3 YEARS old yet Android phones on sale right now won't EVER get ICS.
Out of ALL the iPhones sold only the iPhone and iPhone 3G cannot be upgraded. Given that growth has been crazy it's not 2/5 of iPhones, more like 1/10 or less... Long since out of contract to get a new one.
With many of the Asian OEMS already beat up to pay licensing for Android, would that apply to other devices as well? Could they make an Android PC under the same terms they have?
The real question is do they have the stones to NOT sign up for Win8 on release day... And even more so, stop payment on the check.
Google should be tweaking Android HARD this week for general use PCs. Android has almost enough software in its ecosystem to handle it... Maybe allow some native software on x86 so things like the standard OSS guys can port over (libreoffice, gimp, blender, etc) with minimal grief. That or allow an Android "subsystem" to run on standard linux like a VM... Then people can use third party devices like on their phones.
Apple doesn't lock the boot loader on macs. There's no point to stop the HARDWARE being reused... If that is your goal you are doing something hugely wrong in your business.
This was just a routine Cloak and Dagger Op. During the Cold War the CIA and KGB did "monkey wrench" ops like this all the time. Most of the time they didn't bother telling the Prez... So he couldn't accidentally apologize!
In the grand scheme from the Prez point of view, this was the right way to go. Americans aren't really willing to start another war, and the intel in Iran's Nuclear program is so sensational and political the truth is long lost. The CIA wants to throw a digital wrench in the works that Iran claims don't exist is better than letting Israel invade their airspace with US made planes again. Iran isn't being honest with neighbors like Syria either, so "outrage" over breaking something they claimed they wernt doing is minimal.
The bigger problem is that the military and other orgs are utterly irresponsible With their "toys". They ended up giving foreign hackers something high-end and new to hack our OWN computers with. This leads to looking for "terrorists" under every beach towel because there is all this irresponsible stuff going on even the President and industry leaders aren't warned is coming.... Because these idiots turned stuff loose and tried to cover it up.
This is the problem with government too big for its britches. You can't entirely blame Obama. Bush and Cheney made a focused effort to rig the security structure for twenty years... Huge numbers only have their jobs because Bush pulled strings and they only got them by being "true believers". The President gets the options the armed forces give him... The "whole truth" is only what you can prove.
So much of what the US security structure is paranoid about exists only in their own minds. They have SO MANY black ops in the shadows trying to find secret ways around international treaties and running shadowops they don't REALLY have any clue what the "real world" is any more. They are so focused on boogiemen of their OWN inventions they can't just play by the rules anymore.
Not really, I think my company has a yearly cap on how much percent of raises you are allowed to get. The pay scale is such that HR can't promote them in the wage guidelines. But they can bring PFY in right out of HRs favorite school without issue.
Its specifically to STOP people working their way up too quickly. One would think those rules are in place SPECIFICALLY to keep overqualified people from taking "mail room" jobs just to get in the door and then getting recognized "outside" official HR channels. Remember, HR has their own directives from C-level management that basically amount to "gamifying" things to get the "best" employees.
That said, many companies have different hiring rules for different levels. There is a big trend away from "giving" long term employees big promotions... Remember, "executive" salaries are 20x average now. HR in increasingly pushed to make sure you have credentials to "the club". For instance in my company, we have one manager they have passed up for promotion to the "general manager" chair 5+ years. He's worked up from the mill level, gone back to school for the MBA... He's good enough to RUN the place when they kep firing General managers, but they won't let him have the spot. They will happily pay somebody ELSE double, but not the guy with 20 years on THEIR team.
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Ideally, fuel efficient cars will keep the peaks down. There for a while we were PHYSICALLY using less gas, not just using less than PROJECTED.
This is such a silly thing. We all talk about USING less gas, and now we ARE. Rather than tell everybody "good job" we have to keep up with the FUD that we're hurting their profits?
Well prices went through the roof when Bush was a lame duck and dropped when Obama got into office... Maybe there is something to that? Let's see what happens in September-October....
Prices are more to do with supply and demand and if refineries are running well prices stay down because we don't have "emergencies". Remember too, CONSUMER usage has been going down, and modern efficient cars are keeping the numbers flatter than in the past when it would go up. Thats why truck fuel (traditionally less than consumer fuel) has been steadily higher the last few years, because it used to be a "byproduct" of making gasoline. Trucks can't "not drive" like people do, so the numbers had to adjust.
Craig's list would do this THEMSELVES but they would have to PAY GOOGLE to use Google Maps without properly handing over Ad Revenue and search data to Google.
Effectively PaperMapper is doing free processing tI feed Google's search engine!
To be fair, it's free to post for many cases, so they make their money from ad revenue. If you scrape their site, you get the revenue not them. That's money out of their pocket.
Most sites you can't just scrape... Isn't this basically the same thing we were just harping on FunnyJunk for doing to Web Comics sites? It's been like this for years now.
Remember the HDTV spec was finalized in the 1990's and it took how long to get prices down?
Then again, Apple is shipping 2880x1800 laptops and 2048x1536 iPads right now... "HDTV" (especially non blu-ray or broadcast) is barely able to fill the current screens.
Imagine how many gold plated Monster Cables are they gonna sell?? We're all in the wrong business!
Solves All Problems
IT management turns over or the company goes bankrupt.... No more problems!
Flying Bison with six legs?
Lampblack ink on dead goats!
There are plenty of those left from 600+ years ago.
There is the problem.
The market for said employees is very small in the first place... Maybe 10,000 in the USA. 3/4 of the companies train their people (or only hire vets, etc) ... But pay 2/3 the going rate. The others are new players that poach from everybody and are horrible to work for.
You can't move up, and you can't get that magic 20% moving anywhere else. So after 5-10 years of dedicated experience you move laterally into another market... Leaving the impossible to fill job description behind.
This is more like the Credit non-Crunch.
Consumer credit is pushing 25% and they got used to hooking half the customers on $35 per month over/late/renewal fees. Gross on the books is more like %50 on what the bank puts in per year... As long as the people keep paying.
Same with housing. Banks REALLY didn't want to give those "flat" 6% rates so they invented ways to get you to overspend for 2% now and 12% in 5 years. The Mortgage Backed Securities were sold on that idea.
Queue the guy with less than average credit but 20% down wanting those deals on TV and they got no interest.
Same with the small business that needs $1m in upgrades... They aren't willing to pay more than 5%-7% because their accountant knows that's still double what thaws pay borrowing $20M. At the same time the local bank would rather give the $1M out for 15% car loans or consumer credit cards at 25%....
So back on track, the financial markets are telling one side that 1% wage raises per year is unreasonable... And the other side that interest at 25% is great. Is it a wonder that small business versus employees is so hostile?
How about the SKILL that is missing is understanding what your business needs 2,3,5 years and then making sure you have an employee working toward that.
McDonald's has a saying "Green is Growing". It's profound in that they are one of the few companies that PLAN for you to move up or leave... They are built around training at every level. You are either training or being trained... In the best stores that is ALWAYS going on. Leaving because you finished school or life moves on is PART of the plan, not a problem.
I don't know how many you go into and everybody has 10-20 years at the company. If the boss isn't moving up, then the whole food gain is stalled because the only way UP is OUT they have nobody BEHIND YOU, so they're stuck trying to fill your exact job and pay grade without giving anybody ELSE promotions or raises. When there are only 10-20 people in a department that's a standstill.
The people are starving is about POWER not somebody with expensive toys. The people in charge of those African places would rather use the food as BAIT and shoot the starving subjects that need it than share.
There are income disparities, but that has nothing to do with the African situation of each regime pulling "slash n burn" and "scorched earth" tactics on their own countrymen.
You can't RULE people that have plenty of food and water but few other resources... So you take what they have away. Power for the sake of POWER.
Does this one have a VOLCANO? That would seal the deal!
He could be the next Iron Man villain!!
They probably just lease it right back minus a few dozen acres for a mansion complex. Guy wants to own an island.. Shut up and take his money!
It's not like Larry is going to live there all year. Gives him someplace to fly his planes to!
Ask IPhone owners if they care... We will get ios 6 in a few months. While you're waiting on Win 8 or ICS we'll be gliding along in the iCloud. iPhone 4 ownes will start dropping off cltheir contracts, free to buy "new shiny" when Apple releases it in October.
While you STILL wait for Win8 and ICS phones.....
But the version number of the OS is the same, so the apps "just work" even if the devs had to cut something out ( and I have a few apps with grey buttons on my 3GS) but its SUPPORTED. Apps released.today.. We can has them!
And when we upgrade to iPad or iPhone 6? All the apps come along too... And the data in the cloud. When I bought my ipad2 it was loaded up with $300+ in apps I already paid for on the iPhone... I'm counting minutes for the next iPhone because my contract will be up and its a HUGE upgrade of stuff I ALREADY bought! (which is the same reason people keep buying windows on the desktop)
But other than apps specifically for front facing cameras I have not run into more than one or two apps on the App Store that don't work just fine on my 3GS. THAT is what I care about, not being FORCED to get a new phone just to be sure Angry Birds doesn't stop supporting my version. I don't expect new features tied to hardware (ok, sometimes that's questionable) but I'm not being LEFT OUT from buying new regular apps.
Apple still ships the 3GS so it will get ios6. Just clocked 3 YEARS old yet Android phones on sale right now won't EVER get ICS.
Out of ALL the iPhones sold only the iPhone and iPhone 3G cannot be upgraded. Given that growth has been crazy it's not 2/5 of iPhones, more like 1/10 or less... Long since out of contract to get a new one.
With many of the Asian OEMS already beat up to pay licensing for Android, would that apply to other devices as well? Could they make an Android PC under the same terms they have?
The real question is do they have the stones to NOT sign up for Win8 on release day... And even more so, stop payment on the check.
Google should be tweaking Android HARD this week for general use PCs. Android has almost enough software in its ecosystem to handle it... Maybe allow some native software on x86 so things like the standard OSS guys can port over (libreoffice, gimp, blender, etc) with minimal grief. That or allow an Android "subsystem" to run on standard linux like a VM... Then people can use third party devices like on their phones.
Apple doesn't lock the boot loader on macs. There's no point to stop the HARDWARE being reused... If that is your goal you are doing something hugely wrong in your business.
This was just a routine Cloak and Dagger Op. During the Cold War the CIA and KGB did "monkey wrench" ops like this all the time. Most of the time they didn't bother telling the Prez... So he couldn't accidentally apologize!
In the grand scheme from the Prez point of view, this was the right way to go. Americans aren't really willing to start another war, and the intel in Iran's Nuclear program is so sensational and political the truth is long lost. The CIA wants to throw a digital wrench in the works that Iran claims don't exist is better than letting Israel invade their airspace with US made planes again. Iran isn't being honest with neighbors like Syria either, so "outrage" over breaking something they claimed they wernt doing is minimal.
The bigger problem is that the military and other orgs are utterly irresponsible With their "toys". They ended up giving foreign hackers something high-end and new to hack our OWN computers with. This leads to looking for "terrorists" under every beach towel because there is all this irresponsible stuff going on even the President and industry leaders aren't warned is coming.... Because these idiots turned stuff loose and tried to cover it up.
This is the problem with government too big for its britches. You can't entirely blame Obama. Bush and Cheney made a focused effort to rig the security structure for twenty years... Huge numbers only have their jobs because Bush pulled strings and they only got them by being "true believers". The President gets the options the armed forces give him... The "whole truth" is only what you can prove.
So much of what the US security structure is paranoid about exists only in their own minds. They have SO MANY black ops in the shadows trying to find secret ways around international treaties and running shadowops they don't REALLY have any clue what the "real world" is any more. They are so focused on boogiemen of their OWN inventions they can't just play by the rules anymore.
Not really, I think my company has a yearly cap on how much percent of raises you are allowed to get. The pay scale is such that HR can't promote them in the wage guidelines. But they can bring PFY in right out of HRs favorite school without issue.
Its specifically to STOP people working their way up too quickly. One would think those rules are in place SPECIFICALLY to keep overqualified people from taking "mail room" jobs just to get in the door and then getting recognized "outside" official HR channels. Remember, HR has their own directives from C-level management that basically amount to "gamifying" things to get the "best" employees.
That said, many companies have different hiring rules for different levels. There is a big trend away from "giving" long term employees big promotions... Remember, "executive" salaries are 20x average now. HR in increasingly pushed to make sure you have credentials to "the club". For instance in my company, we have one manager they have passed up for promotion to the "general manager" chair 5+ years. He's worked up from the mill level, gone back to school for the MBA... He's good enough to RUN the place when they kep firing General managers, but they won't let him have the spot. They will happily pay somebody ELSE double, but not the guy with 20 years on THEIR team.