I wonder if this would be the right time to ask about non-profits and the money they make:
Let's say an organization spends $100 mil in a year, and takes in $150 mil. You've got $50 million left. For a company, that would be the profit.
For a non-profit, do you have to spend the entire $50 mil before either Dec 31 or the end of the fiscal year? (That's why Mozilla has 25 people working on "user experience", right?)
Or can it just go into your bank account. If so, are there any rules that govern that?
Anybody remember when UI was was UI? (User interface)
If you want a quick gauge of the pretentiousness of a project, just check if the UI is called "user experience". What are they, selling perfume at Nordstrom's?
The average 15" laptop is 1366x768.
With 25 (!) people, each could be responsible for a 54x31 block, barely bigger than a large icon. Talk about bloat.
And they can't spare 5 people to continue with Thunderbird work? How about a simple thing like Assign Tasks? Languishing for years.
They should spend $100 million, and bank the rest instead of wasting all on dumb stuff like FF OS, or redesigning FF and a new version every two months.
Then, with the interest of the banked amount, work on projects that don't have a business model.
You know, because they're supposed to be a non-profit.
Is someone keeping track of all the pre-iPhone tech/software that Apple copied in order to create the iPhone out of thin air?
It would be useful to paste it as a generic response to Apple fanboys, like that guy who used to paste the big-ol' response to any suggested spam solution ("Your spam solution will not work because...").
I never knew that Apple had copied swipe-to-unlock from the Swedish Neonode N1 phone.
But the reason people get suspicious of CEO's is that their performance is something like a normal distribution, some fail badly, most are so-so, some are hug successes.
Yet every single one of them get millions in salary and bonuses.
Until that changes, people are going to think the CEO game is a racket, that "I could do that too", and entrepreneurs and business owners will think they don't need a "professional" CEO.
But on a small point regarding "loan with money from your depositors".
Money isn't lent out from deposits. It's created out of thin air. It's created as a bookkeeping entry against the promise of repayment, possibly secured. A new account is created with, say, $100K.
However, no depositor's account is debited $100K, or even $100K/[number_of_depositors]. Neither is any of the bank's own accounts debited.
Yet, even people who totally mess up a company don't end up in the poorhouse. Other than out-and-out frauds like Bernie Madoff, if you run a company into the ground, you'll still get all kinds of golden parachutes and bonuses.
Look at that Apothoker guy that HP hired. Almost destroyed HP's hardware business with a single statement. The head of Barclays which was involved in an interest-rate fixing scam. Are either of these men reduced to riding public transportation?
So, yeah, the guy above you has it closer to right.
Any accountant want to explain exactly what "wrote off" means?
Granted a unit might not be making as much profit as desired, but does this mean they gutted the whole thing, sold the desks, and gave the chairs to Steve Ballmer?
The unstated rules were that the patents were merely defensive.
You noticed the Motorola patents but not Apple trying to stop Google and Samsung sales?
There was plenty of black, rounded corner, icon tech before Apple's iBlahs: Knight-Ridder Tablet Space Odyssey LG Prada Samsung picture frame Joojoo tablet Prizm software stack Bauhaus
they patent the heck out of it, share it with their Android partners, and kick Apple to the curb for violating the unstated rules of the tech patent game.
As CNET's Roger Cheng has explained, the idea "is based on the principle that fair licensing of intellectual property is often needed because sometimes certain ideas and patents just need to be shared for everything to work together properly"
I just wonder if things would work better if Apple Corp. might deign to share the color black with us mere mortals, who have to put up with non-black smartphones with razor sharp corners (sometimes with greater or less than 4 sides!).
Why would you need multi-threaded programming for CRUD operations on a blog site (like Slashdot)?
Somehow or another, the executive mansion of the most powerful country on Earth seems to get by without closures, "cool" error handling (exceptions up the kazoo), and parallelism. (Whitehouse.gov runs Drupal, which is a CMS running on PHP and dumb old database like MySQL.)
The world is also bigger than just Java. For my banking, I want Java on the backend. For other stuff? As situation requires.
>PHP's biggest problem - to me - is the lack of a FastCGI-style environment where code is already running and requests are just fed to the running daemon.
Wha? PHP has plenty of frustrating problems, but that's not one of them.
Setting up FastCGI with PHP ranges from easy to fancy. If you want easy, just install VirtualMin.
PHP with FCGI most decidedly does not go out of existence at the end of an HTTP request. The daemon stays there, ready for the next request. Also, why do you say APC is immature? Works pretty well in my experience. If you set the memory allocation right for the cache, the PHP code stays entirely (95%) in the cache.
As for going from bytecode to machine code, yeah, OK. But how's that different for most uses of Python or Ruby--for the web. There's a Python C compiler, but people don't compile their web scripts.
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What? The ruling was from England, what does American law (other than the common English heritage) have to do with it?
You have a point.
But wouldn't it be possible just to add an Android runtime to the Linux environment? Best of both worlds.
I wonder if this would be the right time to ask about non-profits and the money they make:
Let's say an organization spends $100 mil in a year, and takes in $150 mil. You've got $50 million left. For a company, that would be the profit.
For a non-profit, do you have to spend the entire $50 mil before either Dec 31 or the end of the fiscal year? (That's why Mozilla has 25 people working on "user experience", right?)
Or can it just go into your bank account. If so, are there any rules that govern that?
Where's the accounting answers guy?
Anybody remember when UI was was UI? (User interface)
If you want a quick gauge of the pretentiousness of a project, just check if the UI is called "user experience". What are they, selling perfume at Nordstrom's?
The average 15" laptop is 1366x768.
With 25 (!) people, each could be responsible for a 54x31 block, barely bigger than a large icon. Talk about bloat.
And they can't spare 5 people to continue with Thunderbird work? How about a simple thing like Assign Tasks? Languishing for years.
They get $300 mil per year from Google!
They should spend $100 million, and bank the rest instead of wasting all on dumb stuff like FF OS, or redesigning FF and a new version every two months.
Then, with the interest of the banked amount, work on projects that don't have a business model.
You know, because they're supposed to be a non-profit.
Well, but why is that? Let's say 75% of the workers are members of the union, and 25% are, as you say, "freeloaders".
The union negotiates a salary package, vacation days, health benefits, union input before termination, etc. But that only applies the union members.
The "freeloaders" are on their own, and will have to accept whatever the company offers.
Thanks for sharing. You're the bookeeping version of that guy with the sig that says "Ask me about biology."
Is someone keeping track of all the pre-iPhone tech/software that Apple copied in order to create the iPhone out of thin air?
It would be useful to paste it as a generic response to Apple fanboys, like that guy who used to paste the big-ol' response to any suggested spam solution ("Your spam solution will not work because...").
I never knew that Apple had copied swipe-to-unlock from the Swedish Neonode N1 phone.
We could save hundreds of thousands more lives if we just banned cars.
(If you're reading this from Brussels, don't make this the next "European Policy Initiative".)
Coca-Cola?
A good CEO works very hard and very smart.
But the reason people get suspicious of CEO's is that their performance is something like a normal distribution, some fail badly, most are so-so, some are hug successes.
Yet every single one of them get millions in salary and bonuses.
Until that changes, people are going to think the CEO game is a racket, that "I could do that too", and entrepreneurs and business owners will think they don't need a "professional" CEO.
Not disagreeing with you.
But on a small point regarding "loan with money from your depositors".
Money isn't lent out from deposits. It's created out of thin air. It's created as a bookkeeping entry against the promise of repayment, possibly secured. A new account is created with, say, $100K.
However, no depositor's account is debited $100K, or even $100K/[number_of_depositors]. Neither is any of the bank's own accounts debited.
Funny when you think about it.
Yet, even people who totally mess up a company don't end up in the poorhouse. Other than out-and-out frauds like Bernie Madoff, if you run a company into the ground, you'll still get all kinds of golden parachutes and bonuses.
Look at that Apothoker guy that HP hired. Almost destroyed HP's hardware business with a single statement. The head of Barclays which was involved in an interest-rate fixing scam. Are either of these men reduced to riding public transportation?
So, yeah, the guy above you has it closer to right.
Any accountant want to explain exactly what "wrote off" means?
Granted a unit might not be making as much profit as desired, but does this mean they gutted the whole thing, sold the desks, and gave the chairs to Steve Ballmer?
Which model? Or are all TP-Links upgradeable to custom OS's?
Speaking of which, does whatever type of router you're using now support local DNS?
I've run into that problem with the ubiquitous Netgear WGR614.
It does remote DNS, so it knows, or passes on, the IP address of remote hosts (like google.com, or whatever).
It does DHCP, so it knows what every local host's name and IP is.
But it won't tell you that if you ask.
So, effectively, if you want to access hosts on the LAN by name, you can't use the router's DHCP.
Anybody know of a cheap router that also does DNS?
Chief Justice Roberts will rule that Congress is authorized to "tax" Americans who don't have an iPhone.
That's from a year ago. Before Google bought Motorola.
In fact, that's part of the reason Goog bought Motorola--so they could share the patent love.
The unstated rules were that the patents were merely defensive.
You noticed the Motorola patents but not Apple trying to stop Google and Samsung sales?
There was plenty of black, rounded corner, icon tech before Apple's iBlahs:
Knight-Ridder Tablet
Space Odyssey
LG Prada
Samsung picture frame
Joojoo tablet
Prizm software stack
Bauhaus
Cooptitioners.
They're both competing and cooperating.
They major reason for buying Motorola was for the patents; the reason for that being Apple's move.
they patent the heck out of it, share it with their Android partners, and kick Apple to the curb for violating the unstated rules of the tech patent game.
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I just wonder if things would work better if Apple Corp. might deign to share the color black with us mere mortals, who have to put up with non-black smartphones with razor sharp corners (sometimes with greater or less than 4 sides!).
And Perl didn't have DBI right when Perl emerged from Larry Wall's head.
Don't use mysql_*.
Use the PDO library for database-independent access.
Right hammer for the right job.
Why would you need multi-threaded programming for CRUD operations on a blog site (like Slashdot)?
Somehow or another, the executive mansion of the most powerful country on Earth seems to get by without closures, "cool" error handling (exceptions up the kazoo), and parallelism. (Whitehouse.gov runs Drupal, which is a CMS running on PHP and dumb old database like MySQL.)
The world is also bigger than just Java. For my banking, I want Java on the backend. For other stuff? As situation requires.
>PHP's biggest problem - to me - is the lack of a FastCGI-style environment where code is already running and requests are just fed to the running daemon.
Wha? PHP has plenty of frustrating problems, but that's not one of them.
Setting up FastCGI with PHP ranges from easy to fancy. If you want easy, just install VirtualMin.
Here's some guy with a custom setup:
http://voidweb.com/2010/07/the-perfect-lamp-stack-apache2-fastcgi-php-fpm-apc/
PHP with FCGI most decidedly does not go out of existence at the end of an HTTP request. The daemon stays there, ready for the next request. Also, why do you say APC is immature? Works pretty well in my experience. If you set the memory allocation right for the cache, the PHP code stays entirely (95%) in the cache.
As for going from bytecode to machine code, yeah, OK. But how's that different for most uses of Python or Ruby--for the web. There's a Python C compiler, but people don't compile their web scripts.