Put on both condoms Have sex Take one off Have sex again Put the one you took off, back on, only inside out Have sex again Of course, this is totally stupid.
Yah, you could still potentialy get an STD that way, thus problem is not solved.:P
I sampled a few of the "relatively hard" puzzles... They're interesting, but they only take a minute to figure out. Am I correct in thinking that these are relatively easy, or am I being an ass and flaunting my ability to solve little puzzles?
I can/never/ do these puzzles, but on the flip side I have a blast with those logic diagraming style thingies, you know where you have those boxs and you have to figure out who did what (nice part is when they start expanding into huge ol' things, hehe, they get really fun after a certian size.:-D )
but shit, It'd take me forever to figure out how to slice a cake 3 times and get 8 pieces, and, err, who knows the answer to this one?
A man would like to have safe sex with three women, any of whom may be carrying an STD. Given two condoms, how can he do so, while ensuring that no STD is passed from one woman (or possibly himself) to another (or to himself)?
I remember on a visit to HS campus talking to one of the guys there, he said that he also read/., when I said I posted there frequently he was very surprised "Oh you post??? there? " almost like he was in awe or amazement that somebody actualy posted comments there. ^_^
Oh come on we are supposed to be the second damn silicon valley or something like that.
Ok so granted most of the high tech companies around here/. is not exactly friendly to. . ..
Err, but crud. With Real Networks, McNeel Software, Wild Tangent, Immunex, and so forth all around here, why doesn't Seattle have a few hundred people minimum signed up? Not to mention Boeing, Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and other Nerd and Geek related enterprises.
"Same here. Ratio of AMD failure is about 5x intel one.
I have never had an AMD chip fail on me, I have had two motherboards, but that isn't AMDs fault and once it was my own.
CPUs tend to last no matter what just so long as you do not force them into too much physical or thermal trauma, assuming a fan doesn't die your good to go. And until recently it was 3 or 4 AMD chips per the price of one Intel chip so nobody really minded losing the first 2.:-D
Guy was Italian Citizen, content was uploaded from a PC in Italy, and they used is Username + PW to shutdown the site.
They did not come over here with armed guards and confiscate the host computer, and they did not go around suing left and right.
What is the fuss? If they started going after US sites by US citizens then I would get a bit peeved but. . . . Yeesh. This is the same as it has/always/ been, the US has arrested people and shutdown sites that contain content that/we/ consider inoffensive even if the host is in some other country. Nothing new here.
We need to be more precise in cutting the income. If you think about it, that is pretty much what the market has done, in the past few years.
CEOs earn to much, but their salary keeps on going up because of pressures from one company to another to capture the best CEO.
If all major corporation (or at least high earning) CEOs where forced to take a 50% pay cut or so, then that right there would be a major 'marjet readjustment' in the right direction. (not stock market, but job market, and help with companies financial health, every little bit helps! It is often times a lot of so called 'little' things that hurt profitability!)
No, not at all. The pre-bankruptcy price would have to cover any deployment and other initial set up costs. The post-bankruptcy price only has to cover ongoing costs because they will write off almost all of the debt.
If somebody had done their calculations right though, deployment costs would not have been a problem in the first place.
Basically you are saying this will shoot their profit level up to where it would have been after all debts had been paid off (or a little higher then where it should have been now if things had been operated properly. . ..)
Personally, I am against proceeding on so many fronts that I forget what in the world I have still to pay over from my past battles! WorldCom got into this situation, heck, even giving them the benefit of the doubt that each one of their acquisitions was going to be profitable some day in the future (doubtful. . ..), they ate up so much so fast that now they are about to explode.
. . ..
*sighs* Of course I don't see why companies really bother going public, stupid from what I can see. If you don't have the revenue stream coming in already, then you don't need additional funding, you just need a better plan!
Then the stock is really of no interest to any investors. Every company needs to grow and diversify, or investors flee.
That is what is wrong with the system, the desire for more more more
This is why large companies make acquisitions even when they have stable markets.
And why things come to a crashing halt in the end! bigbigbigbigbigbigbigbigBIG, BOOOOM! All comes crashing down. Lovely. Bleh.
Too many good companies (not to mention potential scientific advances even!) have been ruined by some asshole beancounter doing shit out of his/her league. Once everything is running smoothly and a profit is being turned, the bean counters should be rounded up and sent back to their cages, not needed any more, get, shoo. Yeesh. But noooo, somebody lets them keep on running about and go around gobbling up companies until some big megacorp gets so bloated that all hell breaks loose.
what if some old bum who could never afford that ferrari comes along, points a little magical device at the car and a complete copy of that car appears before him, he takes it for a joy ride, and when he is done, gets out, pushs another little button, and the car magicaly disappears.
No damage done, and the original car would never have been bought anyways.
The main concern is over whether or not these people would ever have bought the cars. If not, then there is no harm done, if so, then they should buy the car one way or the other anyways, but if they don't, then there is some legitimate complaining to be done.
There are many geeks, some are democrats, some are republicans, some are neither.
I am a Nerd not a Geek, there IS a difference ThankYouSoVeryMuch.:-D
All can agree that corruption and restrictions against technology suck (if they don't then they definitely do not qualify under either heading of Nerd OR geek)
One the corruption was rooted out then something resembling figuring out the will of the majority could actualy be done, but until then it does not matter what political side yo are on, the chance of the congress critters giving anything resemblng a care in the world about you are none to nill.
Unfortunately, Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was fiction based on an idealistic world, and real engineers get paid too well to risk their livelihoods and families for moral principles.
I just hope/something/ happens soon before it becomes to late. . . .
VCD's aren't exactly new media. They've been used for years, just mostly in asian markets. Advocating their use now just delays even bigger acceptance of DVD's. Instructional use is one thing that could further drive the DVD format, and even more importantly, set a real demand for recordable DVD's. Sure sticking with CD's might seem good now, but it just hurts the impact of media designed for such video uses.
Schools in my city are still using film reels so. . . . Some Laser Discs in the science classrooms, but mostly rare. The history classes have the occasional movie on laser disc too, but they are mostly still film reel.
I do not think they are going to be going DVD any time soon. ^_^ (after the large investment in LD, heh)
so are we all going to have to go on strike, stand in the rain and sing:
"we're hungry, we're wet, we're very very upset!"
I was thinking that actions more in the range of funneling a few mil(bil?)lion out of major corporate bank accounts and buying large ass loads of food and having it shipped to some starving country, but whatever.
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The EFF is hardly opposition, while they do some great things they are hardly going to topple big business any time soon.
What is needed is a large group of people who are not afraid of actually getting out there and/doing/ things. Hell, do you realize how quickly companies would fall if all of the Nerds went after their asses? Bank records, personnel files, social security numbers, telephone systems, security systems, ordering and tracking systems, even the damn air conditioning wouldn't be safe!
Nobody could stop a large (few thousand at/least/) group of intelligent people dedicated to overcoming any obstacle in their way. Funding? No problem, any half ass can steal funds, and anybody better then a half ass can manage to not get caught (too quickly at least!), you want secrecy? Hah, simple, once you step up from having script kiddies being the main threat to people with actual PhDs even the news media would learn exactly how hard it can be to catch somebody who knows what they are doing.
And in the very least, what the fuck could the government do if the entire tech sector turned up against big business all at once? Throw them all in jail? Heh, and watch the rest of the economy go down hill and leave the nation to rednecks and whitetrash? Fat chance. Imagine what the headlines would be "Colleges and universities around the nation shutdown due to seriou staff shortages after FBI raids. In addition, IBM, HP, Compaq, Intel, AMD, and a large number of other companies listed on the Nasdeq have had at least temporarily shutdown due to lack of employees."
They would have no choice but to give in to academia and science as a whole.
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Put on both condoms
:P
Have sex
Take one off
Have sex again
Put the one you took off, back on, only inside out
Have sex again
Of course, this is totally stupid.
Yah, you could still potentialy get an STD that way, thus problem is not solved.
I can
but shit, It'd take me forever to figure out how to slice a cake 3 times and get 8 pieces, and, err, who knows the answer to this one?
I remember on a visit to HS campus talking to one of the guys there, he said that he also read /., when I said I posted there frequently he was very surprised "Oh you post??? there? " almost like he was in awe or amazement that somebody actualy posted comments there. ^_^
What are the odds of you getting run over by a llama TWICE?
Statisticaly he is just as likely to get ran over by llamas again as he was to get ran over by them the first time.
Umm, wow, we darn nearly /.'ed NASA, or is the JPL always ass end slow?
You have given me something the Oracle of Google could not find, and that is an act of Power indeed..
:)
Like hell, that is the first result for a search on Palermo scale .
Oh come on we are supposed to be the second damn silicon valley or something like that.
/. is not exactly friendly to. . . .
Ok so granted most of the high tech companies around here
Err, but crud. With Real Networks, McNeel Software, Wild Tangent, Immunex, and so forth all around here, why doesn't Seattle have a few hundred people minimum signed up? Not to mention Boeing, Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and other Nerd and Geek related enterprises.
Keep It Simple Stupid
yeesh.
"Same here. Ratio of AMD failure is about 5x intel one.
:-D
I have never had an AMD chip fail on me, I have had two motherboards, but that isn't AMDs fault and once it was my own.
CPUs tend to last no matter what just so long as you do not force them into too much physical or thermal trauma, assuming a fan doesn't die your good to go. And until recently it was 3 or 4 AMD chips per the price of one Intel chip so nobody really minded losing the first 2.
Guy was Italian Citizen, content was uploaded from a PC in Italy, and they used is Username + PW to shutdown the site.
/always/ been, the US has arrested people and shutdown sites that contain content that /we/ consider inoffensive even if the host is in some other country. Nothing new here.
They did not come over here with armed guards and confiscate the host computer, and they did not go around suing left and right.
What is the fuss? If they started going after US sites by US citizens then I would get a bit peeved but. . . . Yeesh. This is the same as it has
So who stole Matrox's Top Secret(tm) plans for their next video card?
Being /.'d twice in, what, the same year so far? Oooouch.
;-D
(or did they just not ever come back from the last one)?
oh well Google Cache still works.
We need to be more precise in cutting the income. If you think about it, that is pretty much what the market has done, in the past few years.
CEOs earn to much, but their salary keeps on going up because of pressures from one company to another to capture the best CEO.
If all major corporation (or at least high earning) CEOs where forced to take a 50% pay cut or so, then that right there would be a major 'marjet readjustment' in the right direction. (not stock market, but job market, and help with companies financial health, every little bit helps! It is often times a lot of so called 'little' things that hurt profitability!)
No, not at all. The pre-bankruptcy price would have to cover any deployment and other initial set up costs. The post-bankruptcy price only has to cover ongoing costs because they will write off almost all of the debt.
.)
.), they ate up so much so fast that now they are about to explode.
.
If somebody had done their calculations right though, deployment costs would not have been a problem in the first place.
Basically you are saying this will shoot their profit level up to where it would have been after all debts had been paid off (or a little higher then where it should have been now if things had been operated properly. . .
Personally, I am against proceeding on so many fronts that I forget what in the world I have still to pay over from my past battles! WorldCom got into this situation, heck, even giving them the benefit of the doubt that each one of their acquisitions was going to be profitable some day in the future (doubtful. . .
. . .
*sighs* Of course I don't see why companies really bother going public, stupid from what I can see. If you don't have the revenue stream coming in already, then you don't need additional funding, you just need a better plan!
How to take care of America's current financial woes; (not just applicable to WorldCom)
:-D
Everybody earning more then $100,000 a year takes a 10% pay cut.
Everybody earning more then $1,000,000 a year takes a 20% pay cut.
Would help if somebody also gave the congress critters the occasional wack along-side the head. Well even if it didn't help it would feel good.
Then the stock is really of no interest to any investors. Every company needs to grow and diversify, or investors flee.
That is what is wrong with the system, the desire for more more more
This is why large companies make acquisitions even when they have stable markets.
And why things come to a crashing halt in the end! bigbigbigbigbigbigbigbigBIG, BOOOOM! All comes crashing down. Lovely. Bleh.
Too many good companies (not to mention potential scientific advances even!) have been ruined by some asshole beancounter doing shit out of his/her league. Once everything is running smoothly and a profit is being turned, the bean counters should be rounded up and sent back to their cages, not needed any more, get, shoo. Yeesh. But noooo, somebody lets them keep on running about and go around gobbling up companies until some big megacorp gets so bloated that all hell breaks loose.
Assuming they are selling a service at a cost that at least covers current costs
They wouldn't be in this mess in the first place?
. . . .
Your missing point;
what if some old bum who could never afford that ferrari comes along, points a little magical device at the car and a complete copy of that car appears before him, he takes it for a joy ride, and when he is done, gets out, pushs another little button, and the car magicaly disappears.
No damage done, and the original car would never have been bought anyways.
The main concern is over whether or not these people would ever have bought the cars. If not, then there is no harm done, if so, then they should buy the car one way or the other anyways, but if they don't, then there is some legitimate complaining to be done.
There are many geeks, some are democrats, some are republicans, some are neither.
:-D
I am a Nerd not a Geek, there IS a difference ThankYouSoVeryMuch.
All can agree that corruption and restrictions against technology suck (if they don't then they definitely do not qualify under either heading of Nerd OR geek)
One the corruption was rooted out then something resembling figuring out the will of the majority could actualy be done, but until then it does not matter what political side yo are on, the chance of the congress critters giving anything resemblng a care in the world about you are none to nill.
Unfortunately, Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was fiction based on an idealistic world, and real engineers get paid too well to risk their livelihoods and families for moral principles.
/something/ happens soon before it becomes to late. . . .
I just hope
VCD's aren't exactly new media. They've been used for years, just mostly in asian markets. Advocating their use now just delays even bigger acceptance of DVD's. Instructional use is one thing that could further drive the DVD format, and even more importantly, set a real demand for recordable DVD's. Sure sticking with CD's might seem good now, but it just hurts the impact of media designed for such video uses.
Schools in my city are still using film reels so. . . . Some Laser Discs in the science classrooms, but mostly rare. The history classes have the occasional movie on laser disc too, but they are mostly still film reel.
I do not think they are going to be going DVD any time soon. ^_^ (after the large investment in LD, heh)
eeeew, your right, grammericaly correct but sounds like crud when read outloud!
so are we all going to have to go on strike, stand in the rain and sing:
"we're hungry, we're wet, we're very very upset!"
I was thinking that actions more in the range of funneling a few mil(bil?)lion out of major corporate bank accounts and buying large ass loads of food and having it shipped to some starving country, but whatever.
The EFF is hardly opposition, while they do some great things they are hardly going to topple big business any time soon.
/doing/ things. Hell, do you realize how quickly companies would fall if all of the Nerds went after their asses? Bank records, personnel files, social security numbers, telephone systems, security systems, ordering and tracking systems, even the damn air conditioning wouldn't be safe!
/least/) group of intelligent people dedicated to overcoming any obstacle in their way. Funding? No problem, any half ass can steal funds, and anybody better then a half ass can manage to not get caught (too quickly at least!), you want secrecy? Hah, simple, once you step up from having script kiddies being the main threat to people with actual PhDs even the news media would learn exactly how hard it can be to catch somebody who knows what they are doing.
What is needed is a large group of people who are not afraid of actually getting out there and
Nobody could stop a large (few thousand at
And in the very least, what the fuck could the government do if the entire tech sector turned up against big business all at once? Throw them all in jail? Heh, and watch the rest of the economy go down hill and leave the nation to rednecks and whitetrash? Fat chance. Imagine what the headlines would be "Colleges and universities around the nation shutdown due to seriou staff shortages after FBI raids. In addition, IBM, HP, Compaq, Intel, AMD, and a large number of other companies listed on the Nasdeq have had at least temporarily shutdown due to lack of employees."
They would have no choice but to give in to academia and science as a whole.
I thought they would have more ambition than that.
Why, they used the same method to create their form of government. . . .