>Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
A 2003 car is still perfectly safe on the road. Ok, so if it costs $1000 per year in repairs, thats still far ahead of the principal and interest one would spend on a new car. But keep it up - our economy needs spenders like you, while the few of us that actually think about these things save...
>Further, anyone buying a $650 phone likely didn't buy a $13,500 car 5 years ago that didn't have BT and is still driving it. If so, they need to rethink their purchase decisions.
Hogwash.
You buy a car for $15,000 5 years ago, it still goes to and fro just fine. But fine, you sell it for $5,000. Now you buy a new car for another $15,000. For what? Just to be able to keep going to and fro? That, my friend, is seriously misplaced priorities. And you dare question the person that spends $650 on a phone every now and again, when you're apparently spending at least $2k per year on your wheels (not counting interest, if you finance) just to stay in the same exact place as you were before...
And that's if you're buying the bottom of the line new cars, mind you...
I look at cars as methods of getting from A to B, not as a status symbol. So, that i might spend $650 on an iPhone has nothing to do with whether or not I can get a new car, or whether I want a new car just to use a new iPhone...
if McD's cost is $35,000, and they're open 16 hours per day, then it pays for itself in less than a year with employees making less than $8/hour.
(8 * 16 * 365 = $46,720)
I know that for myself, I go to McDonalds embarrassingly often, and I would absolutely not go if that were the case, just as when I go to the super market, I intentionally don't use the self checkout lines. I don't care if its cheaper, and even if they extended a fraction of the savings to me, I'd RATHER help kids keep employed and have some money to spend. And even if they're not kids, I'd rather they get paid the money, than just give huge bonus' to the C-level guys for thinking "hey, lets automate away everyones jobs! what could possibly go wrong with that? oh and while we're at it, lets support politicians who want to do away with social safety nets! Like anyone actually needs those things!"
So a company that has, say, $100 million offshore, and who would expect a $35 million tax hit by bringing it back, should be able to do so for free, if it returns 10% of that to shareholders as a dividend, which some while pay 15% on, while many others (pensions, IRA's, 401k's) will pay nothing on at all.
Because so much of the cash that the financial sector holds on their balance sheets isn't their cash at all, but their customers money which they are being lent (by that customer opening an account with them), where as the cash on Google, Apples and Microsofts balance sheets represents their cash and their cash alone.
After years of hearing about it, I've just gotten into GoT. If the punishment for snagging single episode is hanging, I'd tremble at the thought of what punishment awaits me...
How often in the meter calibrated? You know, so the customer knows that they're getting the amount of fuel they paid for? And speaking of, how is a customer even assured they're getting the fuel they paid for at all, and not, say, a 90/10 blend of gasoline and water?
Certainly someone in government could reverse engineer the code to enable re-use?
Who would be the wiser? I mean besides defendants who suddenly start seeing the contents of their phones used as evidence against them in trial.
I mean, if the company that licensed the software to the FBI tried to force the them to reveal their decryption technique, could the FBI then argue that releasing such code into the wild could result in the widespread hacking of iPhones around the planet? You know, turn the tables a bit?
Is this lack of support for XP, Mountain Lion, etc, because the code is now using API calls available only in the later OSes? Or are they simply checking the environment at install or run time and refusing to run if it detects an earlier OS version?
The first reason, I could understand. But since it's occurring across OS's, I have to think it's the later. Which makes no sense. If someone is using their browser as their primary interface, it would seem like, even though it's not recommend, it is their prerogative. I almost feel like the point of a web browser is to make whatever a users underlying platform actually is irrelevant.
Especially considering XP is still in widespread use in corporate america, and with Microsoft no longer maintaining it being bad enough, but now those PC's will end up being forced to use outdated and lacking in security browsers. Does Google really benefit by seeing XP desktops upgrade to Windows 10?
SunEd isn't a utility or a classic supplier. Their bankruptcy would have no affect on peoples utility bills, except in the event that perhaps in a bankruptcy the companies creditors could be able to terminate the already executed power purchase agreements (i don't know, not a lawyer).
Enron was far more intertwined with the energy markets, and was able to cause a huge amount of disruption, something SunEd couldn't do even if that was their goal.
Northing to do with the utility regulators, just the governance of the company, its business practices and communication/disclosure to shareholders.
While i don't question that SunEdison is in dire straights, the link is for a filing by Terraform Global, a SunEdison spin-off (meant to assist in their financial engineering - IE rather than sell shares or issue debt at Sunsedison's level to finance new projects, they created Terraform and Terraform Global, raised capital for each of those, and used that money to buy and finance their projects.
It's really amazing how incompetent SunEdison could be - the gold rush in solar (at least in the US) in only now slowing down/risking coming to an end (though it could re-open if the pro-solar states revisit their incentives, or if the non-solar friendly states decide to get in on it and provide incentives). In Massachusetts, for instance, SunEd is very active in the large-scale installations that can see payback in 3-4 years, followed by 17-27 years of profit. Similar in CA, NJ, etc.
Yet somehow, SunEdison figured out a way to lose money. Good job!
I don't remember SCO UnixWare being free in the early 90's. By the mid to mid/late 90's I had gotten a free evaluation or educational license from them, but that was only because Redhat was turning into something usable and x86 users were going that route.
Back at the time of the Korean war, it was the North that was the more advanced state, and the South were the peasants. And, we fought against communism, not "for" the South Koreans - evidenced by the string of strong men that held power until only recent times. Unless you're going to get heavily revisionist, the U.S. wasn't in Korea fighting for the freedom of the South, only push back against Communist Russian and China.
Besides which, where are these 40 million victims of environmentalism?
Slashdot Mirror
You're counting posts only.
Do we know on average, how many comments each post gets?
How many images?
How about private messages, should those be human reviewed as well? :)
> So, it's time to indict God! We're gonna sue the Pope!!
Well, aren't all these wingnuts acting on "God"'s orders anyhow? You know, cut off the head of the snake...
When did that ever happen? TNG characters doing anything sketchy, I mean?
Yes.
From the second sentence of the link you provided:
What might come as news, on the other hand, is how safe cars were according to the study’s findings before recent idiot-proofing.
>Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
A 2003 car is still perfectly safe on the road. Ok, so if it costs $1000 per year in repairs, thats still far ahead of the principal and interest one would spend on a new car. But keep it up - our economy needs spenders like you, while the few of us that actually think about these things save...
>Further, anyone buying a $650 phone likely didn't buy a $13,500 car 5 years ago that didn't have BT and is still driving it. If so, they need to rethink their purchase decisions.
Hogwash.
You buy a car for $15,000 5 years ago, it still goes to and fro just fine. But fine, you sell it for $5,000. Now you buy a new car for another $15,000. For what? Just to be able to keep going to and fro? That, my friend, is seriously misplaced priorities. And you dare question the person that spends $650 on a phone every now and again, when you're apparently spending at least $2k per year on your wheels (not counting interest, if you finance) just to stay in the same exact place as you were before...
And that's if you're buying the bottom of the line new cars, mind you...
I look at cars as methods of getting from A to B, not as a status symbol. So, that i might spend $650 on an iPhone has nothing to do with whether or not I can get a new car, or whether I want a new car just to use a new iPhone...
My cars ancient. So old, it doesn't even have Bluetooth. I rely on a auxiliary cable that plus into the hole that's labelled "iPod".
Guess that means that whenever the new iPhone come out, I won't be upgrading, unless I happen to be upgrading my car at the same time...
I thought I was the only person who browsed slashdot through an IP over avian carrier connection.
if McD's cost is $35,000, and they're open 16 hours per day, then it pays for itself in less than a year with employees making less than $8/hour.
(8 * 16 * 365 = $46,720)
I know that for myself, I go to McDonalds embarrassingly often, and I would absolutely not go if that were the case, just as when I go to the super market, I intentionally don't use the self checkout lines. I don't care if its cheaper, and even if they extended a fraction of the savings to me, I'd RATHER help kids keep employed and have some money to spend. And even if they're not kids, I'd rather they get paid the money, than just give huge bonus' to the C-level guys for thinking "hey, lets automate away everyones jobs! what could possibly go wrong with that? oh and while we're at it, lets support politicians who want to do away with social safety nets! Like anyone actually needs those things!"
And I wish I was sarcastic about that...
Click? Red? Surely you jest, I don't think IBM machines from that era had either Mice, GUI's or color displays with which to display red...
So a company that has, say, $100 million offshore, and who would expect a $35 million tax hit by bringing it back, should be able to do so for free, if it returns 10% of that to shareholders as a dividend, which some while pay 15% on, while many others (pensions, IRA's, 401k's) will pay nothing on at all.
Because so much of the cash that the financial sector holds on their balance sheets isn't their cash at all, but their customers money which they are being lent (by that customer opening an account with them), where as the cash on Google, Apples and Microsofts balance sheets represents their cash and their cash alone.
Wasn't the Korean War a declared war? If not, why would there need to be an armistice?
After years of hearing about it, I've just gotten into GoT. If the punishment for snagging single episode is hanging, I'd tremble at the thought of what punishment awaits me...
Yup. I remember it for sure. Tried checking it out a few years back, looked forgotten about at that point, can't say I'm surprised.
How often in the meter calibrated? You know, so the customer knows that they're getting the amount of fuel they paid for? And speaking of, how is a customer even assured they're getting the fuel they paid for at all, and not, say, a 90/10 blend of gasoline and water?
Certainly someone in government could reverse engineer the code to enable re-use?
Who would be the wiser? I mean besides defendants who suddenly start seeing the contents of their phones used as evidence against them in trial.
I mean, if the company that licensed the software to the FBI tried to force the them to reveal their decryption technique, could the FBI then argue that releasing such code into the wild could result in the widespread hacking of iPhones around the planet? You know, turn the tables a bit?
Is this lack of support for XP, Mountain Lion, etc, because the code is now using API calls available only in the later OSes? Or are they simply checking the environment at install or run time and refusing to run if it detects an earlier OS version?
The first reason, I could understand. But since it's occurring across OS's, I have to think it's the later. Which makes no sense. If someone is using their browser as their primary interface, it would seem like, even though it's not recommend, it is their prerogative. I almost feel like the point of a web browser is to make whatever a users underlying platform actually is irrelevant.
Especially considering XP is still in widespread use in corporate america, and with Microsoft no longer maintaining it being bad enough, but now those PC's will end up being forced to use outdated and lacking in security browsers. Does Google really benefit by seeing XP desktops upgrade to Windows 10?
SunEd isn't a utility or a classic supplier. Their bankruptcy would have no affect on peoples utility bills, except in the event that perhaps in a bankruptcy the companies creditors could be able to terminate the already executed power purchase agreements (i don't know, not a lawyer).
Enron was far more intertwined with the energy markets, and was able to cause a huge amount of disruption, something SunEd couldn't do even if that was their goal.
Northing to do with the utility regulators, just the governance of the company, its business practices and communication/disclosure to shareholders.
While i don't question that SunEdison is in dire straights, the link is for a filing by Terraform Global, a SunEdison spin-off (meant to assist in their financial engineering - IE rather than sell shares or issue debt at Sunsedison's level to finance new projects, they created Terraform and Terraform Global, raised capital for each of those, and used that money to buy and finance their projects.
It's really amazing how incompetent SunEdison could be - the gold rush in solar (at least in the US) in only now slowing down/risking coming to an end (though it could re-open if the pro-solar states revisit their incentives, or if the non-solar friendly states decide to get in on it and provide incentives). In Massachusetts, for instance, SunEd is very active in the large-scale installations that can see payback in 3-4 years, followed by 17-27 years of profit. Similar in CA, NJ, etc.
Yet somehow, SunEdison figured out a way to lose money. Good job!
I thought that rule only applied to musicians?
Or maybe 27 is when realize they won't be a famous musician and get depressed that they'll have to be office drones forever and ever...
I don't remember SCO UnixWare being free in the early 90's. By the mid to mid/late 90's I had gotten a free evaluation or educational license from them, but that was only because Redhat was turning into something usable and x86 users were going that route.
Forgive my for being naive, but when did the terrorists break into her email?
OK, now you're getting more and more zanny
Back at the time of the Korean war, it was the North that was the more advanced state, and the South were the peasants. And, we fought against communism, not "for" the South Koreans - evidenced by the string of strong men that held power until only recent times. Unless you're going to get heavily revisionist, the U.S. wasn't in Korea fighting for the freedom of the South, only push back against Communist Russian and China.
Besides which, where are these 40 million victims of environmentalism?