Bubbles are funded by outside investors. In this case, the money for the big aquisitions comes from other tech companies, which means that they have a way of making that money somehow.
. . . which means that they think they have a way of making that money somehow.
A family friend, an old and wise ear, nose and throat doctor, mentioned at a dinner party, that about 25% of his patients had an emotional problem, not a physical one. He lamented that younger doctors did not take time to ask patients questions about how their life, family and job status were going. The younger doctors would just try to prescribe pills too quickly, and refer the patient to a specialist, like himself. A neurologist and another doctor at the table agreed.
Of course, now many doctors have time constraints for patient visits imposed by insurance companies. So prescribing a placebo is the easier choice than really talking to the patients, and dealing with more paperwork, for an extended consultation.
That was in the US; I don't know how that is in the UK.
It's tricky trying to pin down in law something that is in the process of rapid change.
How about, like, is it a religion . . . ? Or a business . . . ?
To help the recent financial shenanigans in Cyprus, the Church of Cyprus offered their assets as collateral. What worth could a couple of crumbled down churches with holes in them be . . . ?
Well, it turns out that the Church is the largest landowner there . . . and owns hotels . . . owns stakes in banks (oops!) . . . and, my personal favorite, . . . a brewery. And God knows what else . . . or maybe God doesn't even know.
Their wealth is estimated in the billions.
Sounds like a business to me. Do they, like, pay tax on all that income . . . ? How much do they charge for a wedding . . . ?
The limiting factor of the W line will be the power supply. It's been growing exponentially. The one for my W520 packs 170W, is brick sized and could be used to crack open coconuts in a pinch. If it continues at the current rate, the power supply will soon be bigger and heavier than the SchtinkPad . . . about around the time when the W590 is released. With a cool 1TB of RAM and a wattage of a wind tunnel!
But don't even think about trying to take my W520 away . . . I get all NRAish about it. I'll whack any would-be thieves over the head with the power supply.
Actually what matters is the affect you have on your contemporaries, those whose lives you come into contact with directly
I'm guessing that most grandparents would prefer to spend time talking to their living descendents now, instead of lecturing to unknowns of the future. A two way conversation is much more natural than a recorded monologue or rant.
Actually, what I really believe, is that older folks should do whatever they damn well please. They are old, time is short, and they don't need anyone to tell them how to spend that time.
Let 'em spend their days telling me to get off their lawn, if that what brings some minor joy and amusement into their lives.
It can be old, broken and useless . . . but a geek will still hoard it. Every geek has a drawer, a box, a closet, or a garage stuffed with useless stuff. There just might be some possibility that it will be good for something in the future. Maybe the Zombie Apocalypse will infect Ethernet, so I will need that PCMCIA Token Ring card?
Every time I go digging for something it's like a Computer Archeological Wonderland. Wow! BASIC programs on paper tape! The old HP 41C calculator!
I never own less gadgets . . . just more. Where have all my gadgets gone? Who knows. But they are around here somewhere, and can find them if I look hard enough.
They are great for nights outside on the balcony with the laptop and a cigar. I also have one that is waterproof for the pool. I find them in the junk bins in discount supermarkets.
Lawyers sue the one with the most money. If you sexually harass someone at your workplace, they will sue your employer, not you. You don't have any money to be worth a lawsuit (nothing personal meant there). However, your employer, will probably have enough money to entice a lawyer to go after it.
. . . a National Security Letter is being printed now, with your name on it, Mr. Anonymous Coward. Because the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit thinks that may not be your real first name, letters will be printed for all A* Cowards. Or better yet, A* C*. Oh, the hell with it, let's just do * * and be done with it.
Actually, I wonder why they even bother to issue a letter anyway these days.
When WWII ended, the US won a bunch of German rocket scientists as a prize for its space program. When the Berlin Wall fell, and the War on Terror started, the US cherry-picked ex-Stasi officers for its intelligence agencies
They were experienced, tanned, rested, and up to the call of duty . . .
Nobody expects the National Security Letter!
It's main weapon is fear . . . and surprise . . . it's two main weapons . . .
THE Roman Catholic church is the world’s oldest multinational. It is also, by many measures, its most successful, with 1.2 billion customers, 1m employees, tens of millions of volunteers, a global distribution network, a universally recognised logo, unrivalled lobbying clout and, auguring well for the future, a successful emerging-markets operation.
. . . more choice quotes:
The pope has no shortage of crisis-management tools at his disposal, including the doctrine of papal infallibility.
His most pressing task will be to deal with the sex scandals. This is partly a theological issue: the church would attract a very different workforce if it did not insist that all priests be male and celibate.
Still, he could learn from the private sector about how to manage the workforce he has. First, you need to punish errant employees rather than protecting them or shuffling them about. The best companies are quick to “proactively outplace” wrongdoers. Second, you need to treat your reputation as your most precious asset by drawing up clear rules on ethical behaviour, insisting staff adhere to them and conducting aggressive public-relations campaigns. Third, you have to keep looking ahead. Companies hold meetings of senior leaders to review their strategies every year, rather than every century or so.
The church’s core competence lies in providing spiritual goods. Yet it devotes a lot of its energy to running an earthly operation. Some of this makes sense—schools and hospitals help fulfil Jesus’s mandate while promoting customer stickiness. But what about running an in-house bank (complete with the world’s only ATM machine with instructions in Latin)? Or managing property portfolios? Big companies like IBM and Ford have got out of non-core businesses and contracted out as much as possible to specialist companies. The church should do likewise.
The church cannot take its success in the global South for granted. It is under pressure from lean start-ups with more vigorous marketing. Its market share in Latin America has declined from 90% in 1910 to 72% today, thanks to the growth of Pentecostalism. The Latin American church is responding by borrowing Pentecostal techniques such as holding “liberation masses” in soccer stadiums and allowing priests to speak in tongues.
Slashdot Mirror
'People are surprised when I tell them that you're not going to get a car that drives you from A to B, or door to door, in the next 10 years.'
'People are surprised when I tell them that you're not going to get a car that flies you from A to B, or door to door, in the next 100 years.'
Europe has tons of prime Romanian meat that they would be happy to provide at a killer price.
. . . you may whinny and snort after eating it, though. But you will run as fast as a Triple Crown winner!
What do you personally think about Linux . . . ?
Bubbles are funded by outside investors. In this case, the money for the big aquisitions comes from other tech companies, which means that they have a way of making that money somehow.
. . . which means that they think they have a way of making that money somehow.
. . . and somehow, they didn't go around tearing hair out, gouging eyes or putting someone's head in a vice.
Because they knew that was TV, and it wasn't a grand idea to try it out on your kid sister.
If video games cause a kid to go postal, there is something else wrong with the kid.
You know, someone keeps calling her saying he will kill her? And then the police trace the call to find that it is coming from inside the house?
"Get out of the house, the calls are coming from upstairs!"
In this case, they have traced the attacks to be coming from IP address 127.0.0.1
Lets pool our loose change together and buy dell for ourselves! Anyone interested?
That won't work. They won't accept Slashdot-ers' Bitcoins . . .
A family friend, an old and wise ear, nose and throat doctor, mentioned at a dinner party, that about 25% of his patients had an emotional problem, not a physical one. He lamented that younger doctors did not take time to ask patients questions about how their life, family and job status were going. The younger doctors would just try to prescribe pills too quickly, and refer the patient to a specialist, like himself. A neurologist and another doctor at the table agreed.
Of course, now many doctors have time constraints for patient visits imposed by insurance companies. So prescribing a placebo is the easier choice than really talking to the patients, and dealing with more paperwork, for an extended consultation.
That was in the US; I don't know how that is in the UK.
It's tricky trying to pin down in law something that is in the process of rapid change.
How about, like, is it a religion . . . ? Or a business . . . ?
To help the recent financial shenanigans in Cyprus, the Church of Cyprus offered their assets as collateral. What worth could a couple of crumbled down churches with holes in them be . . . ?
Well, it turns out that the Church is the largest landowner there . . . and owns hotels . . . owns stakes in banks (oops!) . . . and, my personal favorite, . . . a brewery. And God knows what else . . . or maybe God doesn't even know.
Their wealth is estimated in the billions.
Sounds like a business to me. Do they, like, pay tax on all that income . . . ? How much do they charge for a wedding . . . ?
Well, Nobel prize laureate Richard Feynman his lunch breaks in strip bars, scribbling equations on napkins. So there is a precedent there . . .
. . . and offer him a job.
Pentagon: "Do you also do SCADA stuff . . . ?"
Pentagon: "And windows? Good help is hard to find these days. And would you mind driving Miss Daisy . . . ?"
The limiting factor of the W line will be the power supply. It's been growing exponentially. The one for my W520 packs 170W, is brick sized and could be used to crack open coconuts in a pinch. If it continues at the current rate, the power supply will soon be bigger and heavier than the SchtinkPad . . . about around the time when the W590 is released. With a cool 1TB of RAM and a wattage of a wind tunnel!
But don't even think about trying to take my W520 away . . . I get all NRAish about it. I'll whack any would-be thieves over the head with the power supply.
"No, you look fat in them."
Saves money, incites terror . . .
No problem . . . the next SXSW will feature pedicab powered air conditioners!
But wait . . . there's still more . . . we'll throw in a personalized limited edition pedicab Bass-o-Matic!
And a spiral slicer.
. . . build the moonbase first . . . and they will come . . .
Then why were so many great writers drinkers?
Because all writers are great drinkers.
Jared Diamond covered this in his book about what a civilization needs to succeed, titled:
"Guns, Germans and Beer"
Actually what matters is the affect you have on your contemporaries, those whose lives you come into contact with directly
I'm guessing that most grandparents would prefer to spend time talking to their living descendents now, instead of lecturing to unknowns of the future. A two way conversation is much more natural than a recorded monologue or rant.
Actually, what I really believe, is that older folks should do whatever they damn well please. They are old, time is short, and they don't need anyone to tell them how to spend that time.
Let 'em spend their days telling me to get off their lawn, if that what brings some minor joy and amusement into their lives.
Of course it will be a virtual march for them:
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors and executives are also planning a virtual "march" on Washington in April.
They will be underpaying highly skilled immigrants to march for them.
It can be old, broken and useless . . . but a geek will still hoard it. Every geek has a drawer, a box, a closet, or a garage stuffed with useless stuff. There just might be some possibility that it will be good for something in the future. Maybe the Zombie Apocalypse will infect Ethernet, so I will need that PCMCIA Token Ring card?
Every time I go digging for something it's like a Computer Archeological Wonderland. Wow! BASIC programs on paper tape! The old HP 41C calculator!
I never own less gadgets . . . just more. Where have all my gadgets gone? Who knows. But they are around here somewhere, and can find them if I look hard enough.
The problem is just that programming a Raspberry Pi is very easy, while programming a printer is pretty hard.
Remember the old HP printer message April Fools' gag: http://kovaya.com/miscellany/2007/10/insert-coin.html . . . ?
How about modifying that so the victims are instructed to enter their userids and passwords . . . ?
In Germany, they cost 10€-20€: http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85Z%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=farbwechsel+birne&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Afarbwechsel+birne
I personally like the volleyball sized ones: http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85Z%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=farbwechsel+kugel&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Afarbwechsel+kugel
They are great for nights outside on the balcony with the laptop and a cigar. I also have one that is waterproof for the pool. I find them in the junk bins in discount supermarkets.
Lawyers sue the one with the most money. If you sexually harass someone at your workplace, they will sue your employer, not you. You don't have any money to be worth a lawsuit (nothing personal meant there). However, your employer, will probably have enough money to entice a lawyer to go after it.
. . . a National Security Letter is being printed now, with your name on it, Mr. Anonymous Coward. Because the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit thinks that may not be your real first name, letters will be printed for all A* Cowards. Or better yet, A* C*. Oh, the hell with it, let's just do * * and be done with it.
Actually, I wonder why they even bother to issue a letter anyway these days.
When WWII ended, the US won a bunch of German rocket scientists as a prize for its space program. When the Berlin Wall fell, and the War on Terror started, the US cherry-picked ex-Stasi officers for its intelligence agencies
They were experienced, tanned, rested, and up to the call of duty . . .
Nobody expects the National Security Letter!
It's main weapon is fear . . . and surprise . . . it's two main weapons . . .
It should be a .com. From "The Economist": http://www.economist.com/news/business/21573101-management-tips-catholic-church-pope-ceo
THE Roman Catholic church is the world’s oldest multinational. It is also, by many measures, its most successful, with 1.2 billion customers, 1m employees, tens of millions of volunteers, a global distribution network, a universally recognised logo, unrivalled lobbying clout and, auguring well for the future, a successful emerging-markets operation.
. . . more choice quotes:
The pope has no shortage of crisis-management tools at his disposal, including the doctrine of papal infallibility.
His most pressing task will be to deal with the sex scandals. This is partly a theological issue: the church would attract a very different workforce if it did not insist that all priests be male and celibate.
Still, he could learn from the private sector about how to manage the workforce he has. First, you need to punish errant employees rather than protecting them or shuffling them about. The best companies are quick to “proactively outplace” wrongdoers. Second, you need to treat your reputation as your most precious asset by drawing up clear rules on ethical behaviour, insisting staff adhere to them and conducting aggressive public-relations campaigns. Third, you have to keep looking ahead. Companies hold meetings of senior leaders to review their strategies every year, rather than every century or so.
The church’s core competence lies in providing spiritual goods. Yet it devotes a lot of its energy to running an earthly operation. Some of this makes sense—schools and hospitals help fulfil Jesus’s mandate while promoting customer stickiness. But what about running an in-house bank (complete with the world’s only ATM machine with instructions in Latin)? Or managing property portfolios? Big companies like IBM and Ford have got out of non-core businesses and contracted out as much as possible to specialist companies. The church should do likewise.
The church cannot take its success in the global South for granted. It is under pressure from lean start-ups with more vigorous marketing. Its market share in Latin America has declined from 90% in 1910 to 72% today, thanks to the growth of Pentecostalism. The Latin American church is responding by borrowing Pentecostal techniques such as holding “liberation masses” in soccer stadiums and allowing priests to speak in tongues.
Saber-tooth cats (incorrectly referred to as tigers) are on the list.
Please add me to the list . . .