And they profited through the experience - if they're told 'meet certain goals or lose your job'...or... 'conduct illegal activity and you might lose your job if caught, meanwhile earn your bonus'...if anything, these people know how to maximize their expectation value.
Full year 2015: * Net income of $23.0 billion, consistent with 2014 * Diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $4.15, up 1 percent * Revenue of $86.1 billion, up 2 percent * Pre-tax pre-provision profit1 of $36.3 billion, up 3 percent * Return on assets (ROA) of 1.32 percent and return on equity (ROE) of 12.68 percent * Returned $12.6 billion to shareholders through dividends and net share repurchases
With public sponsorship of research dwindling, many governments are forcing researchers to seek industrial partnerships and to work towards commercialization rather than basic science only. Researchers in fields like food and diet must often partner with producers, so as long as they declare all funding sources I don't have a problem with it. The alternative is to increase public funding of research, but that would cut into leader's pet projects...
Really? A lot of innovation comes from small and dynamic enterprises. I expect that big industry would just wait out the hardship of R&D and then reproduce finished produces after a five-year wait (relatively short in the scheme of many novel products), at a fraction of the cost and with the ability to distribute and mass market.
This sounds terrible, but Canada is far from the strictest in the world. Your experience crossing back into the US is tainted by holding a US passport. Unfortunately Canadian customs agents have fed off the TSA and DHS power trip. The US has actually had a strong hand in changing how US border control is exerted.
The applicant's CV is a MAJOR factor. How can it be double blind? Environment and resources are a common part of a grant review. They should be sufficient for the proposed work.
I loved your comment and agree completely. This knee-jerk reaction most people have towards nanomaterials (which have existed in some form since the Big Bang) reminds me of a similar reaction people have against "chemicals" in food vs. "natural" products, as if nature in incapable of producing its own toxins.
Not to mention the Wii Play was bundled with a second remote which together cost less than many of these amazing other games...that had to factor into its sales figures.
I imagine this also has something to do with penetration of relatively cheap gaming consoles vs. high-end PC hardware - and it's not to say that sales of BioShock were shabby, is it? Just lower.
A friend just pointed me to this set-up and I'm fairly happy for home:
DLINK DNS-323 Two SATA bays. Can slide in the drives w/o tools. Print server (USB) Can run in RAID0, RAID1, or JBOD (I chose RAID1). web interface for config.
I bought two 512Gb WD drives which were on sale for $119 each.
Some peculiar behavior if you really want a secure system: passwords couldn't include non-alpha chars!? And it didn't allow spaces in the WORKGROUP name for the samba mount, which isn't an MS requirement.
But for home use where you're already considered secure and not so worried about multiple users, I find it great having one giant/Storage that the whole network can access.
The reviews on Amazon are love/hate, I think for the above reasons. Probably not be the best set-up for an office or in The Wild.
I fought the good fight for a decade, defending linux as a grad student and for the first couple years of my first real job.
My experience was that there was rarely a perfect compatibility between MS Office applications and StarOffice etc. in linux, and that was enough for me to finally abandon in favor of XP + Office. It was a sad day but was definitely the right business decision for me at the time.
I have many friends that use MacOS and run the Mac version of Office, but even that has displayed some quirky behavior at inopportune times (PowerPoint presentations).
In conclusion, I wouldn't use the Linux angle as a winning angle for Adobe's new application. Especially given the bloated applications like Acrobat and Illustrator that I've abandoned in frustration years ago.
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And they profited through the experience - if they're told 'meet certain goals or lose your job' ...or... 'conduct illegal activity and you might lose your job if caught, meanwhile earn your bonus'...if anything, these people know how to maximize their expectation value.
Full year 2015:
* Net income of $23.0 billion, consistent with 2014
* Diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $4.15, up 1 percent
* Revenue of $86.1 billion, up 2 percent
* Pre-tax pre-provision profit1 of $36.3 billion, up 3 percent
* Return on assets (ROA) of 1.32 percent and return on equity (ROE) of 12.68 percent
* Returned $12.6 billion to shareholders through dividends and net share repurchases
[source] https://www08.wellsfargomedia....
I just rewatched the pilot episode of Star Trek: TNG - I know how "fair trials" work.
With public sponsorship of research dwindling, many governments are forcing researchers to seek industrial partnerships and to work towards commercialization rather than basic science only. Researchers in fields like food and diet must often partner with producers, so as long as they declare all funding sources I don't have a problem with it. The alternative is to increase public funding of research, but that would cut into leader's pet projects...
Ancient Mesopotamian astronomers must be turning in their graves...
Possibly the most-submitted vista to /r/VillagePorn - at least now we can diversify the subreddit to include this pirated version.
Really? A lot of innovation comes from small and dynamic enterprises. I expect that big industry would just wait out the hardship of R&D and then reproduce finished produces after a five-year wait (relatively short in the scheme of many novel products), at a fraction of the cost and with the ability to distribute and mass market.
This sounds terrible, but Canada is far from the strictest in the world. Your experience crossing back into the US is tainted by holding a US passport. Unfortunately Canadian customs agents have fed off the TSA and DHS power trip. The US has actually had a strong hand in changing how US border control is exerted.
The applicant's CV is a MAJOR factor. How can it be double blind? Environment and resources are a common part of a grant review. They should be sufficient for the proposed work.
Have to agree with this. Bought the ipad as an experiment and haven't gone back. Can sync changes in iAnnotate with Dropbox.
And there is no guarantee the system will not be revoked in future - personal information cannot suddenly become private again.
It will also make North Americans better prepared to drive in Europe. Win-win.
Sadly my first thought was military.
Collecting and burning oil but using...solar for power? Seems odd. Maybe a mech eng can explain.
And in other news...a population of MONOG gene knock-out mice has just moved to Utah.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9833743-37.html
You are absolutely correct!
I loved your comment and agree completely. This knee-jerk reaction most people have towards nanomaterials (which have existed in some form since the Big Bang) reminds me of a similar reaction people have against "chemicals" in food vs. "natural" products, as if nature in incapable of producing its own toxins.
> A true joystick is much bigger, and is grasped in your entire hand -- usually, fairly comfortably.
That's what she said.
Not to mention the Wii Play was bundled with a second remote which together cost less than many of these amazing other games...that had to factor into its sales figures.
I imagine this also has something to do with penetration of relatively cheap gaming consoles vs. high-end PC hardware - and it's not to say that sales of BioShock were shabby, is it? Just lower.
A friend just pointed me to this set-up and I'm fairly happy for home:
/Storage that the whole network can access.
DLINK DNS-323
Two SATA bays. Can slide in the drives w/o tools.
Print server (USB)
Can run in RAID0, RAID1, or JBOD (I chose RAID1).
web interface for config.
I bought two 512Gb WD drives which were on sale for $119 each.
Some peculiar behavior if you really want a secure system: passwords couldn't include non-alpha chars!? And it didn't allow spaces in the WORKGROUP name for the samba mount, which isn't an MS requirement.
But for home use where you're already considered secure and not so worried about multiple users, I find it great having one giant
The reviews on Amazon are love/hate, I think for the above reasons. Probably not be the best set-up for an office or in The Wild.
Random review here: http://www.techworld.com/storage/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=469
Bravo - this made the hair on my neck stand up. >
Realm vs. Realm I think
No one should call Tech Support - it's too frustrating.
I fought the good fight for a decade, defending linux as a grad student and for the first couple years of my first real job.
My experience was that there was rarely a perfect compatibility between MS Office applications and StarOffice etc. in linux, and that was enough for me to finally abandon in favor of XP + Office. It was a sad day but was definitely the right business decision for me at the time.
I have many friends that use MacOS and run the Mac version of Office, but even that has displayed some quirky behavior at inopportune times (PowerPoint presentations).
In conclusion, I wouldn't use the Linux angle as a winning angle for Adobe's new application. Especially given the bloated applications like Acrobat and Illustrator that I've abandoned in frustration years ago.
-- Lust
to stay up 50+ hours he may have been heavy into caffeine (or something stronger)...