Yeah, I've been wondering why my university is filled with Exchange/Outlook mailserver (accessible in FF for Windows or FF for Linux, haha), Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate (or 2008 for Mac) all over the place, computers with Windows and 18 bazillion gigs of ram and multicore processors and...
The client-side stuff like Windows and Office I can kinda see due to familiarity reasons. But Exchange, back end of email system, I had previous never understood why that kind of thing was MS
The IT/compsci/etc. departments may have Linux and Unix boxes somewhere, but I haven't seen 'em. Tricked-out Macs and CS4/whatever - those kinds of computers I *do* see a lot of
Some people like this post, some people don't. Looking at the history, this guy's been hit with both Insightful and Overrated repeatedly
Seems with Slashcode that interesting controversial posts don't seem to move up fast enough (There's stuff that's obviously good and obviously bad that does get modded appropriately pretty quickly.)
I can definitely see the connection; it's clear that it's because gillbates is invoking a touchy subject (religion) in the process, this post is under-respected.
How's that for a "wish I had modpoints today" spiel?:D
Sure, some of the jobs created by this program would be temporary (related to the conversion effort itself, rather than system maintenance). However, a *temporary* surge in expenditure (i.e. an investment) makes a lot of business sense if it reduces future expenditure by a commensurate amount.
And this is true in any economic environment, this kind of investment cost/benefit analysis.
However, in a recession, the surge of economic activity from the initial expenditure is especially useful.
*Expenditure doesn't jusst mean "cash payouts" here.
"Yeah, and how many paper pushers etc.., will it put out of work?... While it will create jobs, it will also wipe out existing jobs."
Not sure how the number of new people employed would compare to the number of old people laid off. Your implication seems to be that we might lose more jobs than
Healthcare records clearly need to exist for society in some form. If this results in fewer jobs *in managing healthcare records*, that may not be all bad. The same thing (healthcare records management) is done with a smaller amount of resources (those resources being the time and energy of employees & customers)
So, the same thing's done for lower cost, but you have some people with nothing to do or less to do. So, hopefully, they go off and do something else productive.
Thus, the end result is the same thing being accomplished (this is a simplification/abstraction, yes), plus some more [whatever else is done by the people who got laid off & customers who spend less energy on the paperwork]
So, some people win, and some people lose. But the average (mean) should improve. Of course, the people who lose are (probably) gonna make political noise.
And, this isn't like firing 50 $20,000 guys so the boss can pocket $1 million; it should be more spread out than that.
Ideally, these price pressures come form the private sector though...But there's a lot different about the textbook ideal of the "free market".;)
yes, by standards written before 1800, and made very hard to amend. So, to some extent, it reflects the political values of the time and the technology of the time.
Sometimes, it's clear when it's appropriate to extend to account for modern technology, sometimes it's not.
A lot of libertarian and conservative arguments seem to use that as an excuse...waah, the Constitution doesn't specifically say we can do it.
I tend to think more along the lines of "It's OK, because the Constitution doesn't specifically say we can't." Gives you a wider range of options...
See post title. Wish I had modpoints today. Yeah, it hurts. Not just social skills - That phrasing could also apply to some people's attitudes towards the rich (especially those who seemingly got their money "the easy way")
Of course, from the other side, then they (the average people) turn around and call you elitists, and you think "Maybe I'm 'elite' for a darn good reason; maybe I don't want to stoop to 'their' level"
It doesn't hurt. And as other posters have discussed, what if the refs are standing in front of the physical markers, the physical markers are cut out of the picture, etc.
It's rare that a play ends up so close to the real line that the yellow line is inconclusive
well, the special-teams kicking plays *are* an important part of the game.
For instance, Scifres, the punter [drop-kicker] for San Diego had a great day against Indianapolis, which may have been a tipping point in said game even though punters themselves don't score any points. (they won 21-17 I think)
I obviously can't speak on anything related to strippers, but commercial foodservice at minimum wage can be demeaning too...and I only did ~10hrs/week for 1 year. [in the back loading the dishwasher and such, rather than out in front of customers, but I'd surmise a similar principle]
Sure, I can hypothesize that dirty work with sexual overtones carries *more* risk and unpleasantless (bad reputation, the often-lowlifes that you interact with on the job, etc.)
Yes, this reeks of ethnic profiling. It is turning out to be clear that this family has no ill intent here.
Some of AirTran's mishandling sounds like generic bureaucratic screwing-up that is being viewed differently because of the nature of the situation. Surprising that they acted against what the FBI said, though. Not sure if this just one or a few asshats or a systemic problem at AirTran...
Yes, this was crap blown out of proportion. However, one has to have a no-nonsense response to security issues. It *was* misconstrued, but member(s) of the Muslim family *did* say something stupid; they weren't tossed off solely based on appearance.
Just think if something had happened and it was later found out that someone make this stupid comment
Yes, actual terrorists probably wouldn't let something slip, but nobody's perfect, even if heavily trained.
I've played around with it a bit, and it's clear that it's a Civilization II clone; not decided as to how *good* a Civilization II clone it is, though.
Granted, I'm inclined towards oldschool PC games [Civilization II, Stacraft, etc.] as opposed to the new stuff [GTA, HL, etc] And yes, one game does not a gaming platform make.
Screenshots inside a Word document. Yeah, that sucks. I once got a picture (of an inadvertantly damaged item) in a.docx I had to email the customer, "Good thing I happen to have Word 2007"...
A lot of the big name artists (think the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, for example) did get their back catalogues reissued in CD, but a lot of musically-interesting stuff did not make it to the new format. So, you're stuck unless you want to fire up a turntable or muck around with converters
The Amazon downloader can be set up to automatically put stuff in either your iTunes library or your Windows Media Player. This worked back when I used iTunes.
I use Winamp now (less of a resource hog than iTunes for Windows). The Amazon downloader doesn't automatically put stuff in, but see if Winamp's folder-watching thing will work.
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Ah, but do the lower costs translate into lower tuition charges?
Yeah, I've been wondering why my university is filled with Exchange/Outlook mailserver (accessible in FF for Windows or FF for Linux, haha), Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate (or 2008 for Mac) all over the place, computers with Windows and 18 bazillion gigs of ram and multicore processors and...
The client-side stuff like Windows and Office I can kinda see due to familiarity reasons. But Exchange, back end of email system, I had previous never understood why that kind of thing was MS
The IT/compsci/etc. departments may have Linux and Unix boxes somewhere, but I haven't seen 'em. Tricked-out Macs and CS4/whatever - those kinds of computers I *do* see a lot of
Some people like this post, some people don't. Looking at the history, this guy's been hit with both Insightful and Overrated repeatedly
Seems with Slashcode that interesting controversial posts don't seem to move up fast enough (There's stuff that's obviously good and obviously bad that does get modded appropriately pretty quickly.)
I can definitely see the connection; it's clear that it's because gillbates is invoking a touchy subject (religion) in the process, this post is under-respected.
How's that for a "wish I had modpoints today" spiel? :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
Maybe I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing the connection....
Sure, some of the jobs created by this program would be temporary (related to the conversion effort itself, rather than system maintenance). However, a *temporary* surge in expenditure (i.e. an investment) makes a lot of business sense if it reduces future expenditure by a commensurate amount.
And this is true in any economic environment, this kind of investment cost/benefit analysis.
However, in a recession, the surge of economic activity from the initial expenditure is especially useful.
*Expenditure doesn't jusst mean "cash payouts" here.
"Yeah, and how many paper pushers etc.., will it put out of work? ... While it will create jobs, it will also wipe out existing jobs."
Not sure how the number of new people employed would compare to the number of old people laid off. Your implication seems to be that we might lose more jobs than
Healthcare records clearly need to exist for society in some form. If this results in fewer jobs *in managing healthcare records*, that may not be all bad. The same thing (healthcare records management) is done with a smaller amount of resources (those resources being the time and energy of employees & customers)
So, the same thing's done for lower cost, but you have some people with nothing to do or less to do. So, hopefully, they go off and do something else productive.
Thus, the end result is the same thing being accomplished (this is a simplification/abstraction, yes), plus some more [whatever else is done by the people who got laid off & customers who spend less energy on the paperwork]
So, some people win, and some people lose. But the average (mean) should improve. Of course, the people who lose are (probably) gonna make political noise.
And, this isn't like firing 50 $20,000 guys so the boss can pocket $1 million; it should be more spread out than that.
Ideally, these price pressures come form the private sector though...But there's a lot different about the textbook ideal of the "free market". ;)
yes, by standards written before 1800, and made very hard to amend. So, to some extent, it reflects the political values of the time and the technology of the time.
Sometimes, it's clear when it's appropriate to extend to account for modern technology, sometimes it's not.
A lot of libertarian and conservative arguments seem to use that as an excuse...waah, the Constitution doesn't specifically say we can do it.
I tend to think more along the lines of "It's OK, because the Constitution doesn't specifically say we can't." Gives you a wider range of options...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
Bill of Rights seems to be a clear list of "Federal gov't can't do $foo"
See post title. Wish I had modpoints today.
Yeah, it hurts.
Not just social skills - That phrasing could also apply to some people's attitudes towards the rich (especially those who seemingly got their money "the easy way")
Of course, from the other side, then they (the average people) turn around and call you elitists, and you think "Maybe I'm 'elite' for a darn good reason; maybe I don't want to stoop to 'their' level"
What about competition between a rich ugly guy and an attractive poor guy. That is an intersection case apparently not covered in your examples.
I go to a university with large programs in both various engineering disciplines and (comp sci/IT/et cetera) (http://www.rit.edu)
I am not in one of the aforementioned majors, and I don't catch any flak about it from students that are.
It doesn't hurt.
And as other posters have discussed, what if the refs are standing in front of the physical markers, the physical markers are cut out of the picture, etc.
It's rare that a play ends up so close to the real line that the yellow line is inconclusive
well, the special-teams kicking plays *are* an important part of the game.
For instance, Scifres, the punter [drop-kicker] for San Diego had a great day against Indianapolis, which may have been a tipping point in said game even though punters themselves don't score any points. (they won 21-17 I think)
I obviously can't speak on anything related to strippers, but commercial foodservice at minimum wage can be demeaning too...and I only did ~10hrs/week for 1 year. [in the back loading the dishwasher and such, rather than out in front of customers, but I'd surmise a similar principle]
Sure, I can hypothesize that dirty work with sexual overtones carries *more* risk and unpleasantless (bad reputation, the often-lowlifes that you interact with on the job, etc.)
Wait, I though it was the *Chi*nese... :)
Yes, this reeks of ethnic profiling. It is turning out to be clear that this family has no ill intent here.
Some of AirTran's mishandling sounds like generic bureaucratic screwing-up that is being viewed differently because of the nature of the situation. Surprising that they acted against what the FBI said, though. Not sure if this just one or a few asshats or a systemic problem at AirTran...
Yes, this was crap blown out of proportion. However, one has to have a no-nonsense response to security issues. It *was* misconstrued, but member(s) of the Muslim family *did* say something stupid; they weren't tossed off solely based on appearance.
Just think if something had happened and it was later found out that someone make this stupid comment
Yes, actual terrorists probably wouldn't let something slip, but nobody's perfect, even if heavily trained.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Combat_Uniform
^ I assume that is what ACU means in this context.
And yes, that is irony.
Remember the story about the military personnel who had their Swiss Army knives confiscate,d but were allowed to carry their M-16s?
True, but do you feel that has significance beyond linguistic semantics?
I've played around with it a bit, and it's clear that it's a Civilization II clone; not decided as to how *good* a Civilization II clone it is, though.
Granted, I'm inclined towards oldschool PC games [Civilization II, Stacraft, etc.] as opposed to the new stuff [GTA, HL, etc]
And yes, one game does not a gaming platform make.
"Building a rocket engine is non-trivial"
Come on, it's not brain surgery...
EMI *was* the first (only) major label to allow DRM-free tracks on the iTunes music store.
not the cure for cancer (prevention > treatment), but this sure looks like an improvement in treatment
first post?
Screenshots inside a Word document. Yeah, that sucks. .docx
I once got a picture (of an inadvertantly damaged item) in a
I had to email the customer, "Good thing I happen to have Word 2007"...
A lot of the big name artists (think the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, for example) did get their back catalogues reissued in CD, but a lot of musically-interesting stuff did not make it to the new format.
So, you're stuck unless you want to fire up a turntable or muck around with converters
Funny or insightful?
too bad I don't have any mod points today.
The Amazon downloader can be set up to automatically put stuff in either your iTunes library or your Windows Media Player. This worked back when I used iTunes.
I use Winamp now (less of a resource hog than iTunes for Windows). The Amazon downloader doesn't automatically put stuff in, but see if Winamp's folder-watching thing will work.