If an energy efficient car costs me 10 times more than the gasoline I'd save in a 5 year period, then efficiency is NOT worth it. In pure economic terms.
Of course, this is in a system where as a consumer, I'm shielded from the true costs of Gasoline Burning. But that's beside the point.
Kyoto was a politically motivated attack on the US. The undeveloped countries got all kinds of exceptions. That's not exactly fair. Just because the US developed first. That's like taking the best runner at the olympics, and hamstringing them, and imposing a speed limit that the slower runners couldn't meet anyway. The speed limit is fair. The hamstringing is not.
Don't blame the marketer for putting himself in the marketee's mindframe.
The sexist attitude exists in the males they're trying to convince. Not necessarily the marketer. The technique was actually trying to change this perception by preying on the mistaken attitude.
I find very few people who hate Bush as much as I do.
But on the Kyoto accord, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
If it was equal, across the board, I'd have a different opinion - but the attitude that "America has already been developed, so they need to be punished more than the others" was hogwash. That's not a treaty. That's economic suicide.
On the other hand, I got a Sony mini DV with the Carl Zeiss lens.
The Lens is important.
I'm the only guy in our Cub Scout pack with a modern Macintosh - and I've done videos (iMovie/iDVD) for about a dozen other parents, with mini DV camcorders, via the fire wire port.
I'm absolutely stunned at the poor image quality that comes off these other camcorders, ESPECIALLY Toshiba. The Sony with the Carl Zeiss lens has, by far, the best image quality. The zoom lever is really touchy though. And mine's a couple years old, so it's like 4 times the size of the typical camcorder these days. Pretty much every other Sony product, I'll boycott, but damn, they've got a nice camcorder!
Former employer who laid me off (no, not bitter./sarcasm) who shall remain nameless (/sense of ethics maybe? . . or fear of lawsuit?).
- had a MAJOR hole in our Win95 version. Let it sit for two years, then when a customer figured it out, and posted info about it on our support message board (which we did not censor), we dropped support for that platform. Same thing on 98 continued. . . (they skipped ME support entirely). To be fair - the hole was really Microsoft's fault, and coding around the problem would have been a major architectural shift. In fact, they did have a project to include security via built-in encryption - but after 6 months, all we learned was that our implementation was going to impose a 200% performance hit, and that feature would only be available if the customer opted for a Windows server. Has we forseen the problem at the original design phase, it probably would have been a different story.
My point is - just another person chiming in about a personal experience at a closed-source software company.
My current employer is VERY proactive towards security issues.:)
If I was on the jury, I'd call it self-defense. (but mostly because those stinkin filthy aliens all deserve to die, especially when they threaten a creature who is a member of that noble race; homo sapiens)>
The problem with this is that we don't manufacture anything in America anymore.
I recently hosted a Chinese exchange student for a week. We took him shopping so he could buy some gifts for his friends back home, and we couldn't find a damn thing he couldn't buy back in Shanghai - cheaper. Even at Wal Mart.
That's why it's not enough just to learn Science. Science History lends a crucial perspective on how ideas have evolved over the centuries, and how we've arrived at where we are, and where we may be going tomorrow.
My hatred and bitterness are directed at the individual corporate officers who make the conscious decision to pander to the investment market (not necessarily investors) by being hip to the latest hot trend (outsourcing) irregardless of whether it actually makes good business sense, or sense in terms of gutting their own customer base, in their own native country. And the politicians who refuse to protect their own citizens.
Access to their cost of living, coming right up. Sooner than you think. Along with that comes access to their unprotected environment, lack of health care (coming along nicely), chasm between the rich and poor, starvation, and massive industrial accidents.
Whether you have a "dream job", whether you love what you do, or whether your job is fun, is really all a matter of perspective.
Sure - there are environments and bosses that make it very difficult to enjoy - but job enjoyment is really all about attitude. A simple, lowly factory worker can really love his or her job, if they buy into the company propaganda line, or the nationalist pride angle, that they're a small part of the machine that dominates. Part of it is brainwashing, and part of it is just having a positive outlook.
I like making lots of money. I very much like not having to worry as much about meeting financial obligations, or providing for my kids. But more than that, I really, really enjoy doing good work, and solving problems.
1. Make sure your TiVO works with whatever settop box you're getting from the Satellite provider FIRST (if your set top box doesn't have it's own built-in PVR). My TiVO didn't work with Dish, back in the day. So I returned my TiVO, and upgraded my Dish box. The problem was the IR Channel codes. TiVO complained that Dish wouldn't share the info with them. My take: if TiVo didn't grease the right palms, screw em.
I'm also a Linux->Mac migrant. (1st loaded Linux on a 486/66 with floppy images).
I think it's very important that we not forget our Linux roots.
OS X is, the way it is today, *because* there were so many people attracted to Linux. While I don't think for one second that all the Linux people will migrate to Mac, I do strongly feel that without Linux, and without a community to support it, a crucial competitive force in the computer industry would be diminished (albiet slightly). Let's not forget this.
(personally, my company is migrating to Linux, (not allowed to say who) - and there's just no way in hell they'd ever go the Mac route. So it's been important for me to keep my Linux skills up to date).
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If an energy efficient car costs me 10 times more than the gasoline I'd save in a 5 year period, then efficiency is NOT worth it. In pure economic terms.
Of course, this is in a system where as a consumer, I'm shielded from the true costs of Gasoline Burning. But that's beside the point.
Kyoto was a politically motivated attack on the US. The undeveloped countries got all kinds of exceptions. That's not exactly fair. Just because the US developed first. That's like taking the best runner at the olympics, and hamstringing them, and imposing a speed limit that the slower runners couldn't meet anyway. The speed limit is fair. The hamstringing is not.
Don't blame the marketer for putting himself in the marketee's mindframe.
The sexist attitude exists in the males they're trying to convince. Not necessarily the marketer. The technique was actually trying to change this perception by preying on the mistaken attitude.
Lifesaving drugs like Viagra? Xanax? Propecia?
I find very few people who hate Bush as much as I do.
But on the Kyoto accord, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
If it was equal, across the board, I'd have a different opinion - but the attitude that "America has already been developed, so they need to be punished more than the others" was hogwash. That's not a treaty. That's economic suicide.
You missed the key word: "other" - just before "parents".
On the other hand, I got a Sony mini DV with the Carl Zeiss lens.
The Lens is important.
I'm the only guy in our Cub Scout pack with a modern Macintosh - and I've done videos (iMovie/iDVD) for about a dozen other parents, with mini DV camcorders, via the fire wire port.
I'm absolutely stunned at the poor image quality that comes off these other camcorders, ESPECIALLY Toshiba. The Sony with the Carl Zeiss lens has, by far, the best image quality. The zoom lever is really touchy though. And mine's a couple years old, so it's like 4 times the size of the typical camcorder these days.
Pretty much every other Sony product, I'll boycott, but damn, they've got a nice camcorder!
Former employer who laid me off (no, not bitter. /sarcasm) who shall remain nameless (/sense of ethics maybe? . . or fear of lawsuit?).
:)
- had a MAJOR hole in our Win95 version. Let it sit for two years, then when a customer figured it out, and posted info about it on our support message board (which we did not censor), we dropped support for that platform. Same thing on 98 continued. . . (they skipped ME support entirely).
To be fair - the hole was really Microsoft's fault, and coding around the problem would have been a major architectural shift. In fact, they did have a project to include security via built-in encryption - but after 6 months, all we learned was that our implementation was going to impose a 200% performance hit, and that feature would only be available if the customer opted for a Windows server.
Has we forseen the problem at the original design phase, it probably would have been a different story.
My point is - just another person chiming in about a personal experience at a closed-source software company.
My current employer is VERY proactive towards security issues.
Our Wal Mart sells guns.
Guns made in China.
It wasn't exactly cold-blood either.
Greedo had a gun pointed at him.
If I was on the jury, I'd call it self-defense. (but mostly because those stinkin filthy aliens all deserve to die, especially when they threaten a creature who is a member of that noble race; homo sapiens)>
The problem with this is that we don't manufacture anything in America anymore.
I recently hosted a Chinese exchange student for a week. We took him shopping so he could buy some gifts for his friends back home, and we couldn't find a damn thing he couldn't buy back in Shanghai - cheaper. Even at Wal Mart.
That's why it's not enough just to learn Science. Science History lends a crucial perspective on how ideas have evolved over the centuries, and how we've arrived at where we are, and where we may be going tomorrow.
Agreed.
My hatred and bitterness are directed at the individual corporate officers who make the conscious decision to pander to the investment market (not necessarily investors) by being hip to the latest hot trend (outsourcing) irregardless of whether it actually makes good business sense, or sense in terms of gutting their own customer base, in their own native country. And the politicians who refuse to protect their own citizens.
Access to their cost of living, coming right up. Sooner than you think. Along with that comes access to their unprotected environment, lack of health care (coming along nicely), chasm between the rich and poor, starvation, and massive industrial accidents.
All courtesy of the neoconservatives.
What's on the "agendar" for the next game? /my *not* favorite
Well, there's two ways they could handle it - which do you think they'll chose?
..
1. Spend money on lobbyists and donations, meet with politicians, bitch and moan, for policy that will ultimately weaken their own patents.
OR.
2. Buy the company that has the patent that's trying to sue them, and then go sue everybody else.
hmmmmmm. .
Whether you have a "dream job", whether you love what you do, or whether your job is fun, is really all a matter of perspective.
Sure - there are environments and bosses that make it very difficult to enjoy - but job enjoyment is really all about attitude. A simple, lowly factory worker can really love his or her job, if they buy into the company propaganda line, or the nationalist pride angle, that they're a small part of the machine that dominates. Part of it is brainwashing, and part of it is just having a positive outlook.
I like making lots of money. I very much like not having to worry as much about meeting financial obligations, or providing for my kids. But more than that, I really, really enjoy doing good work, and solving problems.
They ARE paying them the same amount. The same amount of money that Americans can't afford to work for.
I was sending e-mail when there were only 100,000 people on the Internet. I was using Linux when there were only 100,000 users.
. . . but most of all, you have a 4-digit slashdot UID. (barely).
nothing serious.
Just the bends.
There are only a couple of goals which a united humanity can clearly accomplish when we put our minds to it and combine our resources:
We can make a few people very very wealthy, and we can exterminate ourselves.
To naysayers: Prove otherwise.
I thought so.
The Virtual PC purchase!
I wonder if they're going to use the old NT-PPC kernel. . .
1. Make sure your TiVO works with whatever settop box you're getting from the Satellite provider FIRST (if your set top box doesn't have it's own built-in PVR). My TiVO didn't work with Dish, back in the day. So I returned my TiVO, and upgraded my Dish box. The problem was the IR Channel codes. TiVO complained that Dish wouldn't share the info with them. My take: if TiVo didn't grease the right palms, screw em.
2. 9 out of 10 kittens recommend Cable.
Ovine. The word is Ovine.
Laws are for the poor. They keep the rabble in line.
I'm also a Linux->Mac migrant. (1st loaded Linux on a 486/66 with floppy images).
I think it's very important that we not forget our Linux roots.
OS X is, the way it is today, *because* there were so many people attracted to Linux. While I don't think for one second that all the Linux people will migrate to Mac, I do strongly feel that without Linux, and without a community to support it, a crucial competitive force in the computer industry would be diminished (albiet slightly). Let's not forget this.
(personally, my company is migrating to Linux, (not allowed to say who) - and there's just no way in hell they'd ever go the Mac route. So it's been important for me to keep my Linux skills up to date).