Why do you need to wonder? It's right there in the summary: most people affiliated with corporate information technology departments will assume "business-facing" roles.
Nowhere near as many people as you might think become outright unemployed when programming jobs are outsourced (although of course some are and its no consolation to them). The company where I work is transferring most of the servers to a hosting service (outsourcing) but no one in IT is being laid off. They've just got new job descriptions.
You missed the point. The Stanford career experts understand that everyone who wants to work at a business should understand how business works. A graduating bio major going to a pharmacutical company and saying "My summer internship was doing marketing" will be seen as more savvy to the needs of the marketplace. Even if you're in a lab all day and have no direct contact with customers, you'll understand better what the customers are looking for: They don't just want a cure for cancer; they want a cure for cancer in a range of designer colors.
The state will take information it already receives on W-2 wage statements
After living in Virginia most of my life, I moved out and didn't bother to file for a $20 return. "It's been a good state, they can consider it a tip" I thought. Boy was I wrong; three years later I got a nastygram demanding several thousand in back taxes. Duh, didn't they see that my employer had taken the money out in W-2s? No, I was told, I had to file. Then and only then would they match up the W-2's. They DIDN'T KNOW I'D HAD ANY TAXES DEDUCTED!!! And I had to come up with copies of the W-2's to staple to the filing. After spending $15 to the IRS to get them to dig out old microfiche and send me copies, the state of VA sent around $25. $20 plus four years of interest. Talk about a total waste of mine and their time. Govt beauracrats drive me nuts!
Notice Microsoft is smart enough to not want a cut of total profits. The history of movies is littered with the broken remains of writers who sold their movie rights for a percentage of the profits only to find that movies make no profits. It's called "Hollywood accounting". If you ever have, or ever know someone who is getting a movie deal, make sure the contract is for a cut of the box office take and not the profits.
I'm pretty sure whoever runs nowhere.com can give you a run for your money in the most spam inbound. Although a lot of those are probably from organizations thinking they're sending to legit opt-in requests.
Does it really matter? Sealand is a guy and his wife and son on two concrete pylons. Tell me their sovereignty is due to anything other than because no one cares enough as long as they don't do anything stupid like harbor fugitives.
Depends on which country's taxpayers should foot the bill for the prison occupation. As a US citizen, please, UK, keep him in your jails. LOL - but seriously, if he's committed crimes against the US that the UK agrees are crimes then isn't it more reasonable that he be jailed on the US's tab?
Thats interesting isnt it? I thought GPL didnt allow it. By law the coin slot should be broken.
Are you kidding or tripping? The GPL has nothing to do with renting time on hardware with which to use GPL'd software; it only covers the rights to the software itself. It's pretty clear that using an arcade machine to play a game is not about the rights to the game's software. It's about getting to use the machine to play. IBM leases servers with Linux installed; by your logic they should have to lend them out for free. Not going to happen.
Can you buy a Torah at the bookstore? If so, does it have publisher's information?A quick check of Amazon.com shows a Torah with searchable online samples. The inside cover page says "Second Edition Newly Corrected". Whups! That doesn't bode well!
not one character can be added to the 304,805 letters of the Torah's text", which makes them untraceable and easily sold on the black market
Just a few quick questions:
Is putting some kind of ownership label on the inside cover really 'adding to the text'? I don't think anyone would mistake "From the Library of Hiram Goldstein" as part of the actual text. Can you buy a Torah at the bookstore? If so, does it have publisher's information? Further, 'character' is pretty specific to alphabetic writing. I wonder if a Chinese idiograph or Egyptian hieroglyph count as a 'character'?
Well you may have noticed there seems to be more than not admin types who WOULD just bark 'this place needs to spend some money!' and get mad that it doesn't happen.
everyone would scream and bitch about loosing money and can't operate without email... My point was always... why not spend ~$20K and get a stable email system
No offense, but it sounds like you need to polish up your cost benefit presentation skills. You can't just bark out a nice round number like $20k and expect a signed PO for that amount. A fifteen minute powerpoint presentation with at least one three color bar graph on productivity lost versus to-the-penny costs of a new system should have gotten you a fine new rig.
Yes, I agree 100%. It would be a good change, IMO, to have economic forces work to increase efficiency rather than government mandated changes. The market DOES work and this article is proving it.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I suppose I should have been more specific in my original posting. I offer to: 1. Register a 501c3 to hold the money. 2. Invest the money conservatively (I already am president of an investment club handling 1/4 the amount in question) 3. Maintain a website where I will post on a monthly basis my investment choices and the current balance 4. Collect grant proposals for open source projects and post the best looking ones annually to slashdot for a vote on who gets how much of the year's proceeds. 5. Do it for no fee for myself; It'll make a great resume item. Note: no fee for or TO myself; any costs to administer the thing will be charged to it. Ie: mailing checks to the recipients of grants, stock transaction fees, 501(c)3 registration fees, etc.
Get interns with a biz background. You don't need geeks to administer the fund. You only need them to decide who gets what.
Heck, I have a business degree AND I'm a geek. I'd be happy to administer the thing; 100K can make 5k to 10k per year in capital gains and interest. That would be a nice little grant for a couple of open source projects per year. I think that's much better than handing out the money in one swoop and then it's gone.
Just in case anyone's socialist tendencies kick in and think that Maine really is making the manufacturers pay, guess what: The end consumers are paying this in the form of higher prices from those manufacturers. And I bet that New Hampshire stores near the Maine border were happy to hear this news. Their prices will suddenly be relatively lower.
could begin buying xxx addresses as early as fall or winter
Not if I beat them to it. Finally, a chance to sit on some domain names like the moron who wants me to pay him to release my defunct url that he snatched up.
But school (at least in the US) wasn't designed to teach people to think, but to teach them to memorize facts
Where in the US did you go to school? In my experience in college, the foriegn students all have facts memorized long enough to repeat them on the test but have no idea what to do with them. It's the American kids who don't know anything practical and get lousy grades on repeat-it-back-tests but have all kinds of ideas.
It's a bad idea because it's a fucking stupid security idea
Tell that to the Isrealis who profile the heck out of passengers and never had a hijacking from one of their airports. And airplane hijackings were almost a monthly occurance in the mideast in the 70's. Profiling is a reasonably good idea and makes a lot more sense than the current screening of small children and the elderly.
I'll always remember the fun I had once getting anaconda to work with some crappy SiS onbard graphics chip
It doesn't have to be some cheap part either; my laptop with a GeForce2go chip wasn't able to install a decent xwindows setup without a tremendous fight. And that was AFTER the epic battle getting the base OS to boot from CD and install properly.
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Why do you need to wonder? It's right there in the summary:
most people affiliated with corporate information technology departments will assume "business-facing" roles.
Nowhere near as many people as you might think become outright unemployed when programming jobs are outsourced (although of course some are and its no consolation to them). The company where I work is transferring most of the servers to a hosting service (outsourcing) but no one in IT is being laid off. They've just got new job descriptions.
You missed the point. The Stanford career experts understand that everyone who wants to work at a business should understand how business works. A graduating bio major going to a pharmacutical company and saying "My summer internship was doing marketing" will be seen as more savvy to the needs of the marketplace. Even if you're in a lab all day and have no direct contact with customers, you'll understand better what the customers are looking for: They don't just want a cure for cancer; they want a cure for cancer in a range of designer colors.
The state will take information it already receives on W-2 wage statements
After living in Virginia most of my life, I moved out and didn't bother to file for a $20 return. "It's been a good state, they can consider it a tip" I thought. Boy was I wrong; three years later I got a nastygram demanding several thousand in back taxes. Duh, didn't they see that my employer had taken the money out in W-2s? No, I was told, I had to file. Then and only then would they match up the W-2's. They DIDN'T KNOW I'D HAD ANY TAXES DEDUCTED!!! And I had to come up with copies of the W-2's to staple to the filing. After spending $15 to the IRS to get them to dig out old microfiche and send me copies, the state of VA sent around $25. $20 plus four years of interest. Talk about a total waste of mine and their time. Govt beauracrats drive me nuts!
plus 15% of the box office revenue
Notice Microsoft is smart enough to not want a cut of total profits. The history of movies is littered with the broken remains of writers who sold their movie rights for a percentage of the profits only to find that movies make no profits. It's called "Hollywood accounting". If you ever have, or ever know someone who is getting a movie deal, make sure the contract is for a cut of the box office take and not the profits.
I'm pretty sure whoever runs nowhere.com can give you a run for your money in the most spam inbound. Although a lot of those are probably from organizations thinking they're sending to legit opt-in requests.
Does it really matter? Sealand is a guy and his wife and son on two concrete pylons. Tell me their sovereignty is due to anything other than because no one cares enough as long as they don't do anything stupid like harbor fugitives.
Depends on which country's taxpayers should foot the bill for the prison occupation. As a US citizen, please, UK, keep him in your jails. LOL - but seriously, if he's committed crimes against the US that the UK agrees are crimes then isn't it more reasonable that he be jailed on the US's tab?
Free on bail + facing 70 year sentence = run awaaaaaay! run awaaaaaay!
No, no, the real question is whether or not Microsoft is going to release Windows for the PowerPC to take up the slack in that market.
Thats interesting isnt it? I thought GPL didnt allow it. By law the coin slot should be broken.
Are you kidding or tripping? The GPL has nothing to do with renting time on hardware with which to use GPL'd software; it only covers the rights to the software itself. It's pretty clear that using an arcade machine to play a game is not about the rights to the game's software. It's about getting to use the machine to play. IBM leases servers with Linux installed; by your logic they should have to lend them out for free. Not going to happen.
Can you buy a Torah at the bookstore? If so, does it have publisher's information?A quick check of Amazon.com shows a Torah with searchable online samples. The inside cover page says "Second Edition Newly Corrected". Whups! That doesn't bode well!
not one character can be added to the 304,805 letters of the Torah's text", which makes them untraceable and easily sold on the black market
Just a few quick questions:
Is putting some kind of ownership label on the inside cover really 'adding to the text'? I don't think anyone would mistake "From the Library of Hiram Goldstein" as part of the actual text. Can you buy a Torah at the bookstore? If so, does it have publisher's information? Further, 'character' is pretty specific to alphabetic writing. I wonder if a Chinese idiograph or Egyptian hieroglyph count as a 'character'?
it was Impress and not PowerPoint
OK, OK, just checking.
you assumed a bit much
Well you may have noticed there seems to be more than not admin types who WOULD just bark 'this place needs to spend some money!' and get mad that it doesn't happen.
he'd effectively said nothing for three days.
Ever watch CSPAN when Alan Greenspan is testifying before the banking subcommittee? Nobody can say nothing that sounds like something like that guy!
everyone would scream and bitch about loosing money and can't operate without email... My point was always ... why not spend ~$20K and get a stable email system
No offense, but it sounds like you need to polish up your cost benefit presentation skills. You can't just bark out a nice round number like $20k and expect a signed PO for that amount. A fifteen minute powerpoint presentation with at least one three color bar graph on productivity lost versus to-the-penny costs of a new system should have gotten you a fine new rig.
Hopefully this starts a global trend
Yes, I agree 100%. It would be a good change, IMO, to have economic forces work to increase efficiency rather than government mandated changes. The market DOES work and this article is proving it.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I suppose I should have been more specific in my original posting. I offer to:
1. Register a 501c3 to hold the money.
2. Invest the money conservatively (I already am president of an investment club handling 1/4 the amount in question)
3. Maintain a website where I will post on a monthly basis my investment choices and the current balance
4. Collect grant proposals for open source projects and post the best looking ones annually to slashdot for a vote on who gets how much of the year's proceeds.
5. Do it for no fee for myself; It'll make a great resume item. Note: no fee for or TO myself; any costs to administer the thing will be charged to it. Ie: mailing checks to the recipients of grants, stock transaction fees, 501(c)3 registration fees, etc.
Get interns with a biz background. You don't need geeks to administer the fund. You only need them to decide who gets what.
Heck, I have a business degree AND I'm a geek. I'd be happy to administer the thing; 100K can make 5k to 10k per year in capital gains and interest. That would be a nice little grant for a couple of open source projects per year. I think that's much better than handing out the money in one swoop and then it's gone.
the lawyeres get huge chunks of the settlement and the 'injured' party gets a gift cert
Did you mean this part:
the plaintiffs' counsel will ask the Court to award attorneys' fees and out-of-pocket expenses in the amount of $2,768,000
USA needs tort reform, badly.
Maine puts the onus on manufacturers
Just in case anyone's socialist tendencies kick in and think that Maine really is making the manufacturers pay, guess what: The end consumers are paying this in the form of higher prices from those manufacturers. And I bet that New Hampshire stores near the Maine border were happy to hear this news. Their prices will suddenly be relatively lower.
could begin buying xxx addresses as early as fall or winter
Not if I beat them to it. Finally, a chance to sit on some domain names like the moron who wants me to pay him to release my defunct url that he snatched up.
But school (at least in the US) wasn't designed to teach people to think, but to teach them to memorize facts
Where in the US did you go to school? In my experience in college, the foriegn students all have facts memorized long enough to repeat them on the test but have no idea what to do with them. It's the American kids who don't know anything practical and get lousy grades on repeat-it-back-tests but have all kinds of ideas.
It's a bad idea because it's a fucking stupid security idea
Tell that to the Isrealis who profile the heck out of passengers and never had a hijacking from one of their airports. And airplane hijackings were almost a monthly occurance in the mideast in the 70's. Profiling is a reasonably good idea and makes a lot more sense than the current screening of small children and the elderly.
Notice that the complaint about the child being searched is 'informative' and my pointing out the self-admitted culprits is 'flamebait'.
I'll always remember the fun I had once getting anaconda to work with some crappy SiS onbard graphics chip
It doesn't have to be some cheap part either; my laptop with a GeForce2go chip wasn't able to install a decent xwindows setup without a tremendous fight. And that was AFTER the epic battle getting the base OS to boot from CD and install properly.