What pisses me off the most is that they never released a patch for the University expansion set... with all the bugs that were included (in particular, a nasty bag that left invisible kick bags all over the place and made houses mostly unsuable.)
I still fret when I see my sims start a game of kicky bag.
It's called "Socially Responsible Investing". One of the interesting things I learned at the Great Hudson River Revival is that there are many different mutual funds out there that invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies.
And yes, some of these funds do "beat the street" when it comes to performance. It may take a little work, but you might be able to convince your employer to make it possible for you to put pre-tax money into these funds. (For a 401(k) for example)
It can take upwards of a week or more for some RAID systems to be fully repaired. (See Fark.com), so if your business is dependent on a single RAID array you should just have to close up for a week because mother nature zapped your server room into tiny bits? Who pays for the week your business is down? If it happens again, then what?
It depends on how populated that block is. If it's 120,000 used addresses with only about 50 of them being problematic, then it IS a big number. If it's only got a few hundred used IPs, then it's not quite as bad as it sounds.
If you have 50 problematic IP's in your customer base, you rank #9 on Spamhaus' top 10 offender ISP list.
You're one step below level3.net and one step above Verizon. You don't want to be there.
Actually, a CSS redesign of Slashdot has been offered, although there would be lots of heavy lifting to get it into slashcode. This part 2 of an article on/. redesign shows how/. renders on a mobile device currently (well, at least when the article was written), and how a CSS version would gracefully degrade in a portable browser.
Businesses fail. Business plans fail. According to the Standish Group, 80% of software projects fail. Granting credit isn't about "getting all the money back." It's an investment by the banks. It's risk management. Using your logic, I should be able to sue a company in which I own stock if its value drops.
have a business loan I personally signed for in order to upfit my first office. You'd better believe I'm working my ass off to make sure I can pay for it
Good! I'm happy for you! I'm just hoping that nothing goes wrong for you (like getting sick, or injured or something). Slightly more than 50% of the bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. (Closer to 46% when you cut out the addiction related problems).
What they should have really "reformed" were the homestead acts in states like Texas and Florida that let millionaires keep their mansions in bankruptcy. This bill also does nothing to punish business that abuse bankruptcy that destroy workers jobs, pensions, and health benefits.
Often, even with a decent business plan, banks will require people to take out personal loans to get a small business started. With yesterdays new bill that benefits banks and credit card companies, people will have fewer opportunities to get out from the debt they created while trying to get a business off the ground.
With less of an incentive to create new opportunities, I feel that this will hurt the ability of America to be a leader in "innovation".
Answers: 1) It won't. 2) It won't. 3) Probably won't.
The idea being that if we end this drug war, we can cut out a large portion of the spending that we currently do for the "drug war". A portion of that moeny can be funneled immideatley into social "safety-net" programs to treat those who have addiction problems. (Other immideate savings will have to go to re-training those who will lose their jobs [many people in the DEA for example.]) We'll still need to have some of them around anyway because we'll probably end up taxing the shit out of the drugs.
We'll also see some savings by reducing the number of people who become incarcerated because of drug convictions. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to find some jaywalkers to fill up the prisons, so we'll be okay there.
Commenter needs to learn about economic vs. accounting loss.
Accounting loss: We're cutting your pay by 4%.
Economic loss: Well, if you had been able to work these extra 4% of hours, you could have made 4% more money! Oh well. You're stuck with only 100% of your pay from before.
(To apply to DVD sales: If you had been able to turn all those illgal downlaods into paying customers, you would have made 4% more money. But, since you weren't able to, you can count them all as an economic loss, the lost opportunity)
I had a Palm Vx. Most stable piece of hardware I ever owned. But, then it got stolen from me at my workplace. (Bastards). I replaced it with a Palm Zire 71. Nice color screen. Software was slightly unstable. Sometimes it would freeze up while doing something (usually while playing a game).
I just replaced it with a Tungsten T5. The software is total crap. It fried its own memos database during a hotsync. Luckily I had a backup of that... and, oh yeah... Palm dropping the Universal Connector platform... real smart idea there.
Last night, my elder Computer Architecture professor was talking about how come computers he worked on in the 1970's could go for well over $5000 an hour.
"Today, by comparison, it's essentially free" he said.
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What pisses me off the most is that they never released a patch for the University expansion set... with all the bugs that were included (in particular, a nasty bag that left invisible kick bags all over the place and made houses mostly unsuable.)
I still fret when I see my sims start a game of kicky bag.
It's called "Socially Responsible Investing". One of the interesting things I learned at the Great Hudson River Revival is that there are many different mutual funds out there that invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies.
And yes, some of these funds do "beat the street" when it comes to performance. It may take a little work, but you might be able to convince your employer to make it possible for you to put pre-tax money into these funds. (For a 401(k) for example)
Google search: SRI investing
"A good sale is like a good wedgie. Your victim shouldn't see it coming."
-Dogbert, the Consultant
Major Sucker Retail Price. Sorry for the shameless plug, but I found the tips at carbuyingtips.com helpful.
And I drove my Civic Hybrid from the dealer with the dealer getting a fair 5% profit.
:%s/IP/Hard Drive/g
It can take upwards of a week or more for some RAID systems to be fully repaired. (See Fark.com), so if your business is dependent on a single RAID array you should just have to close up for a week because mother nature zapped your server room into tiny bits? Who pays for the week your business is down? If it happens again, then what?
Then you invest in a backup.
It depends on how populated that block is. If it's 120,000 used addresses with only about 50 of them being problematic, then it IS a big number. If it's only got a few hundred used IPs, then it's not quite as bad as it sounds.
If you have 50 problematic IP's in your customer base, you rank #9 on Spamhaus' top 10 offender ISP list.
You're one step below level3.net and one step above Verizon. You don't want to be there.
No, they don't. You're confusing copyright and trademark law. Trademarks must actively be protected. Copyrights do not.
Yes, RSS is great on portables. But what if you don't know the RSS address of something you need?
okay, yeah, gogle is nice and all, but still...
Actually, a CSS redesign of Slashdot has been offered, although there would be lots of heavy lifting to get it into slashcode. This part 2 of an article on /. redesign shows how /. renders on a mobile device currently (well, at least when the article was written), and how a CSS version would gracefully degrade in a portable browser.
(Part 1)
o/~ The internet is really really great... o/~
o/~ FOR PORN! o/~
-Avenue Q
The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader has the yahoo! toolbar included.
Businesses fail. Business plans fail. According to the Standish Group, 80% of software projects fail. Granting credit isn't about "getting all the money back." It's an investment by the banks. It's risk management. Using your logic, I should be able to sue a company in which I own stock if its value drops.
have a business loan I personally signed for in order to upfit my first office. You'd better believe I'm working my ass off to make sure I can pay for it
Good! I'm happy for you! I'm just hoping that nothing goes wrong for you (like getting sick, or injured or something). Slightly more than 50% of the bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. (Closer to 46% when you cut out the addiction related problems).
What they should have really "reformed" were the homestead acts in states like Texas and Florida that let millionaires keep their mansions in bankruptcy. This bill also does nothing to punish business that abuse bankruptcy that destroy workers jobs, pensions, and health benefits.
Except thanks to the new bankruptcy reform bill passed yesterday, it's raising the opportunity costs on small business owners.
Often, even with a decent business plan, banks will require people to take out personal loans to get a small business started. With yesterdays new bill that benefits banks and credit card companies, people will have fewer opportunities to get out from the debt they created while trying to get a business off the ground.
With less of an incentive to create new opportunities, I feel that this will hurt the ability of America to be a leader in "innovation".
They won't do this because the IRS has already agreed to not compete with private industry.
I thoroughly enjoyed Arcanum. ood replayability value in that one.
(Until I discovered Diablo II)
Answers:
1) It won't.
2) It won't.
3) Probably won't.
The idea being that if we end this drug war, we can cut out a large portion of the spending that we currently do for the "drug war". A portion of that moeny can be funneled immideatley into social "safety-net" programs to treat those who have addiction problems. (Other immideate savings will have to go to re-training those who will lose their jobs [many people in the DEA for example.]) We'll still need to have some of them around anyway because we'll probably end up taxing the shit out of the drugs.
We'll also see some savings by reducing the number of people who become incarcerated because of drug convictions. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to find some jaywalkers to fill up the prisons, so we'll be okay there.
Commenter needs to learn about economic vs. accounting loss.
Accounting loss: We're cutting your pay by 4%.
Economic loss: Well, if you had been able to work these extra 4% of hours, you could have made 4% more money! Oh well. You're stuck with only 100% of your pay from before.
(To apply to DVD sales: If you had been able to turn all those illgal downlaods into paying customers, you would have made 4% more money. But, since you weren't able to, you can count them all as an economic loss, the lost opportunity)
incapable of properly processing the internal helpdesk software that was designed with FrontPage to the latest standards
Excuse me, If I was Dogbert, my tail would be wagging right now.
You're designing your software with Frontpage?
Wow... that's great... There's your first problem.
Frontpage? Standards? What ones are those?
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who was left?
Repeat!
Microsoft IIS seems to have about a 28% market share right now... yet people still write viruses for it.
ISTbar's "infection vector" is ActiveX.
Probably didn't come through Firefox.
Not surprised...
I had a Palm Vx. Most stable piece of hardware I ever owned. But, then it got stolen from me at my workplace. (Bastards). I replaced it with a Palm Zire 71. Nice color screen. Software was slightly unstable. Sometimes it would freeze up while doing something (usually while playing a game).
I just replaced it with a Tungsten T5. The software is total crap. It fried its own memos database during a hotsync. Luckily I had a backup of that... and, oh yeah... Palm dropping the Universal Connector platform... real smart idea there.
Idiots. I'm not surprised.
Last night, my elder Computer Architecture professor was talking about how come computers he worked on in the 1970's could go for well over $5000 an hour.
"Today, by comparison, it's essentially free" he said.
It's even worse when your workplace adds a '1337 translator to the dictionary. It makes 1-r0ck-17 an illegal password.
Can-Span? Would that be the Peace Bridge?