I'm glad they have enough paying subscribers because I like reading the NYT.
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I think that's what is called the economics of the entertainment industry. Movies, books, actors, bands, songwriters. Choose an entertainment profession and the top earners are earning most of the money in the entire industry. It's the economics of the network effect of popularity.
Most businesses go out of business in the first two years. Eventually, most businesses go out of business period.
From a statistical point of view, comparing the costs in general of doing something that will eventually end (private industry) vs doing something that isn't supposed to end (government) seems like comparing Apples and Oracles.
Dead-on. Game boxes are designed specifically to do a few things, not be general purpose. And they tend to be fast. The US DOD built a computer out of 100 ps3s when they still supported altOSes.
What is being manufactured is the market itself. rat FARMING was created by the bounty, not rats.
Get the correct terms in the analogy and it makes a whole lot of sense.
"The researchers aren't introducing the bugs into the software, of course; they're simply finding flaws that might not have been found under other circumstances. Those who run the bug bounty programs at the software companies say that they are seeing more and more submissions than they did before their programs began, and the combined resources of the external researchers and the vendors' internal teams finds far more flaws than just the internal teams could."
Do a basic form in HTML (maybe a sandwich ordering form) and have the kids make suggestions for improving the form.
Make the change live and ask them if it made the form better or worse (save different versions).
That's requirements gathering/testing/approval all at once.
American business is whining about the shortage of _cheap_ engineers.
CEOs make more money off cheap ones than off expensive ones (not true but the CEOs cannot understand the logic that demonstrates it--hence you end up with Google and Facebook and other new businesses.).
Of the one hundred billion cells in the "human body," more than 90% of them are bacteria.
Of all the DNA encoded in the human body, 99.1% of it non-human.
Of course, there is no way all that bacterial stuff can override the human cells because ummmm, uh, human cells 'think different.';-)
I have hard time posting about our species, homo sapiens, on many bbses because 'homo' is an excluded word.
Why don't we just leave it up to the teachers to deal with spelling, word usage, and student behavior?
Is the gauge of the rails going to be the same on both sides of the tunnel?
I believe Germany changed rail gauges specifically so Russian trains couldn't invade.
Nowadays, I suspect it will be more along the lines of a typical snafu, feet vs. meters.
If it is illegal to videotape a policeman during the normal performance of his duties, then it seems obvious that creating a fake videotape of fake policemen faking their duties would also be illegal.
Duh? (sarcasm)
Based on a survey of American cell phones, the NSA said today that approximately 83% of the citizens were shocked to discover the NSA is listening in on their phones. NSA spokesman David Koch said, "That shows that only 17% of the population is real Americans and that half of those are illegal immigrants" (the kind of people who built America).
I think that post pretty much encapsulates the political process in any democracy.
Trash the apples in your opponent's plan and present the oranges of your own plan as apples.
I wrote an inventory system for my govt agency that didn't actually need it.
Because I was an employee/analyst instead of a contractor, I could say, "No," and force them to explain why the other 5 inventory systems we had did not meet their needs (lack of data entry was not a suitable reason for me.)
When they finally convinced me they needed two pieces of info for tracking computernames on the local wan, I built them one but since we only buy certain types of machines each year (maybe 3 or 4 different models), I built no way to enter new machines. Call me and I do it by inserting new vals into an array in the source code.
That seems sort of silly but think of what's involved in creating a new item_entry_screen, validating the input, restricting it to a few users, handle editing of poorly entered records. It's a lot of work. It's only worth doing under certain conditions. Right now I meet their needs within a 24-hour turnaround that takes me about 15 minutes of work/year
There is an inflection point. Lowering taxes at some point results in lower overall money to spend on government programs (such as patents, copyrights, roads, bridges, and contract law courts--all vital for business interests).
If trickle-down economics truly worked, Mexico would not be an economic basket-case.
I still haven't seen the total budget for that so I tell everyone let's assume $1000/card (to include the backend processing).
Four million cards for employees and contractors is a big chunk of change, especially for a program that doesn't actually address any defined problem.
It is supposed to improve security but 1) it demands workarounds for temporary cards until you can get the official card (a process which doesn't work at all outside of the DC area) and 2) putting all your security eggs in one basket is not considered a good security approach.
Seems like most of the arguments above are over how google gets chrome installed.
The article explicitly points out they are measuring USE from actual web surfing, not installed copies.
Gaia was the first discovery of life from the Mars program.
Actually read the book, written by the first inventor hired by NASA to build machines to find life on Mars.
In classic analyst vs management fashion, he showed how life really works and told mgmt they could determine if life existed on any planet merely thru spectrography. That was not want what they wanted to hear so his contract wasn't renewed.
Read Gaia yourself. It contains more science and better examples than any of the stuff from the Earth Systems Scientists (who reject Gaia based on the general social interpretation (of gaia as Earth goddess) without ever reading the actual book).
Read Freakonomics for a study on the importance of student desire.
The Chicago school system was ordered to integrate so they set up a lottery system for kids at disadvantaged schools to maybe win a ticket to a 'good' school. Subsequent 'analyses' showed the students who won the lottery did better than the losers but Levitt realized you had 3 populations, not two.
There were the people who didn't enter the lottery
people who entered and lost and
people who entered and won
All the other studies lumped the folks who didn't enter along with the lottery losers. Levitt's study discovered there was no significant different between the losers and winners of the lottery. The only significant difference was between those who entered the lottery (those who wanted an education) and those who didn't care (or their parents didn't care) and didn't enter the lottery.
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I'm glad they have enough paying subscribers because I like reading the NYT .
To avoid the article quota of 20, 1] sign up for their daily email and link to articles from it for no count and 2] use google news links with no count
You guys aren't supposed to read between the lines. Stats are supposed to obscure facts, not detail them so even a manager can figure it out.
I think that's what is called the economics of the entertainment industry. Movies, books, actors, bands, songwriters. Choose an entertainment profession and the top earners are earning most of the money in the entire industry. It's the economics of the network effect of popularity.
If the city gives you a permit to protest, is it really a protest?
Most businesses go out of business in the first two years. Eventually, most businesses go out of business period.
From a statistical point of view, comparing the costs in general of doing something that will eventually end (private industry) vs doing something that isn't supposed to end (government) seems like comparing Apples and Oracles.
Dead-on. Game boxes are designed specifically to do a few things, not be general purpose. And they tend to be fast. The US DOD built a computer out of 100 ps3s when they still supported altOSes.
What is being manufactured is the market itself. rat FARMING was created by the bounty, not rats. Get the correct terms in the analogy and it makes a whole lot of sense.
"The researchers aren't introducing the bugs into the software, of course; they're simply finding flaws that might not have been found under other circumstances. Those who run the bug bounty programs at the software companies say that they are seeing more and more submissions than they did before their programs began, and the combined resources of the external researchers and the vendors' internal teams finds far more flaws than just the internal teams could."
Freezing works on floppies the same way it works on hard disks. But given that your drives are old, too. Use that as one of the last options.
Do a basic form in HTML (maybe a sandwich ordering form) and have the kids make suggestions for improving the form.
Make the change live and ask them if it made the form better or worse (save different versions).
That's requirements gathering/testing/approval all at once.
American business is whining about the shortage of _cheap_ engineers.
CEOs make more money off cheap ones than off expensive ones (not true but the CEOs cannot understand the logic that demonstrates it--hence you end up with Google and Facebook and other new businesses.).
Of the one hundred billion cells in the "human body," more than 90% of them are bacteria. ;-)
Of all the DNA encoded in the human body, 99.1% of it non-human.
Of course, there is no way all that bacterial stuff can override the human cells because ummmm, uh, human cells 'think different.'
I have hard time posting about our species, homo sapiens, on many bbses because 'homo' is an excluded word.
Why don't we just leave it up to the teachers to deal with spelling, word usage, and student behavior?
Is the gauge of the rails going to be the same on both sides of the tunnel?
I believe Germany changed rail gauges specifically so Russian trains couldn't invade.
Nowadays, I suspect it will be more along the lines of a typical snafu, feet vs. meters.
If it is illegal to videotape a policeman during the normal performance of his duties, then it seems obvious that creating a fake videotape of fake policemen faking their duties would also be illegal.
Duh? (sarcasm)
Am I missing something?
Yes, you are missing something. But that's because the something is transparent.
Based on a survey of American cell phones, the NSA said today that approximately 83% of the citizens were shocked to discover the NSA is listening in on their phones. NSA spokesman David Koch said, "That shows that only 17% of the population is real Americans and that half of those are illegal immigrants" (the kind of people who built America).
I think that post pretty much encapsulates the political process in any democracy.
Trash the apples in your opponent's plan and present the oranges of your own plan as apples.
I wrote an inventory system for my govt agency that didn't actually need it.
Because I was an employee/analyst instead of a contractor, I could say, "No," and force them to explain why the other 5 inventory systems we had did not meet their needs (lack of data entry was not a suitable reason for me.)
When they finally convinced me they needed two pieces of info for tracking computernames on the local wan, I built them one but since we only buy certain types of machines each year (maybe 3 or 4 different models), I built no way to enter new machines. Call me and I do it by inserting new vals into an array in the source code.
That seems sort of silly but think of what's involved in creating a new item_entry_screen, validating the input, restricting it to a few users, handle editing of poorly entered records. It's a lot of work. It's only worth doing under certain conditions. Right now I meet their needs within a 24-hour turnaround that takes me about 15 minutes of work/year
There is an inflection point. Lowering taxes at some point results in lower overall money to spend on government programs (such as patents, copyrights, roads, bridges, and contract law courts--all vital for business interests).
If trickle-down economics truly worked, Mexico would not be an economic basket-case.
I still haven't seen the total budget for that so I tell everyone let's assume $1000/card (to include the backend processing).
Four million cards for employees and contractors is a big chunk of change, especially for a program that doesn't actually address any defined problem.
It is supposed to improve security but 1) it demands workarounds for temporary cards until you can get the official card (a process which doesn't work at all outside of the DC area) and 2) putting all your security eggs in one basket is not considered a good security approach.
Seems like most of the arguments above are over how google gets chrome installed.
The article explicitly points out they are measuring USE from actual web surfing, not installed copies.
Gaia was the first discovery of life from the Mars program.
Actually read the book, written by the first inventor hired by NASA to build machines to find life on Mars.
In classic analyst vs management fashion, he showed how life really works and told mgmt they could determine if life existed on any planet merely thru spectrography. That was not want what they wanted to hear so his contract wasn't renewed.
Read Gaia yourself. It contains more science and better examples than any of the stuff from the Earth Systems Scientists (who reject Gaia based on the general social interpretation (of gaia as Earth goddess) without ever reading the actual book).
Read Freakonomics for a study on the importance of student desire.
The Chicago school system was ordered to integrate so they set up a lottery system for kids at disadvantaged schools to maybe win a ticket to a 'good' school. Subsequent 'analyses' showed the students who won the lottery did better than the losers but Levitt realized you had 3 populations, not two.
There were the people who didn't enter the lottery
people who entered and lost and
people who entered and won
All the other studies lumped the folks who didn't enter along with the lottery losers. Levitt's study discovered there was no significant different between the losers and winners of the lottery. The only significant difference was between those who entered the lottery (those who wanted an education) and those who didn't care (or their parents didn't care) and didn't enter the lottery.
Restaurants do it all the time, comping dinners for celebrities to eat there and attract other full-pay diners.
Same with musical instrument-makers, giving their instruments away for free to big-time performers in hopes of 'free' advertising.
In other words, it is standard practice in the other genres of the entertainment industry.