Here's food for thought: the White House was fenced in the 40's. Not long befor that, you could walk-up to the front door, but typically not be admitted. Sales folk and appointment seekers would show up at all hours and annoy the butler and the residents. One Garfield was shot by a disgruntled appointment-seeker who felt slighted because the President would not meet with him.
I think Eisenhower directed the near gutting and restoration of the building, installing bullet-proof glass and other modern security features. Before WW I/II, the US was a fairly isolated country with a small federal government. If you had a gripe with the goverment, it was probably at the state level.
So you paid for the basic infastructure with taxes. I live out in the country in the US and where I'm at, the water, electricity and natural gas infastructure were all priviately developed and low cost.
The nearest town was wired by the Rural Electrification Project and the city still owns the power grid. Electricity costs twice as much. The water and sewer systems were WPA projects too, and they also cost more.
As far as I'm concerned the best very basic infastructure the government can fund is contract enforcement and honest money.
If the number of CDs remains constant with fewer sales opportunities, the price of the CDs would need to fall in order for the market to clear. This is more like a right shift in the supply curve rather than a movement along the curve. I'm tired, so forgive me if I'm wrong here.
Considering the supply curve starts at ~$20 for a new release, there's a lot of area under the curve where people won't value the product enough to make the purchase at the ~$20 price. What I don't understand is why this market isn't targeted, unless the curve is such that a much lower price wouldn't attact that many more buyers.
I guess once you structure your company to operate in an increasing returns environment, it's hard to get back to the real world.
Don't forget the first Adams! He did quite a bit of the drudge work necessary to get the country started and spent years overseas lining-up funding and for the new country.
Without money, how should scarce resources be allocated? Would you like somebody to decide who gets what based on personal whim? No matter what you do, resources will be allocated "unfairly" when somebody doesn't get as much as they want. The cash system of trade beats direct bartering as a way of transferring goods and services from buyers and sellers. Without money, could you imagine how difficult it would be to have a service-based economy?
Like it or not, greed-based, money-based, wealth-based societies do more to raise the base of human existance than any other. Yes, some people make more than others, but even the lowest earners are much better off. If you want to see a place run into the ground, visit Cuba, Nigeria, Russia or Haiti.
For most school districts, the expertise for administering one OS barely exists. Most administrations view the computing system line any other infrastructure (e.g. HVAC, roofing, plumbing), get something that covers the basic needs and has predictable costs.
I know MS products aren't the best, but for a school district it works because most computers come out of the box with the operating system and mail pre-installed and they can easily hire a contractor that can fix things as necessary.
Experimentation by the students? No way. They don't let the kids experiment with the roofing or HVAC system, why should they let them experiment with the computers? The kids may break something, and they will need to call the contractor to fix it.
The Great Depression, IMHO, was due more to liquidity problems; delfation was a symptom, not a cause.
Banking was a very different business. Loans could not be sold in a secondary market like they can be today, so you have situations where the bank had callable loan from depositors backed by a mix of non-callable mortages and callable margin and personal loans. When depositors started asking for thier money, the banks called the loans they could or sold stock the held to get the extra cash. Hoover's Federal Reserve could have helped by pumping $$$ into the system.
Plus, buying stock on margin was not regulated, so a lot of deposits were lost when the market went south. Paired with non-so-good regulation and a new central bank (recall, the Fed was about 20 years old) and you have trouble in River City.
This company is annoucing plans for a product that does not exist. I'm guessing they're doing this so that other airlines don't order from Airbus in the next few years before this plane is ready. This sounds like the game some technology companies played and lost big. Think Osborne.
Since a lot of companies are moving away from hub and spoke systems, it's going to be tough for Boeing until they have more offerings outside the long haul market.
According to the (U.S.) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a 2001 study conducted by the Mayo Clinic also found that heavy computer use â" up to seven hours a day â" did not increase the userâ(TM)s risk of developing the injury.
I don't know about you, but my computer usage averages about 10 hours a day. However, I don't know if I actually type for 7 hours out of the ten, after factoring in meetings and other productivity boosters.
I worry more about my eyes than wrists. I may not be typing 100 wpm constantly, but I am looking at my monitors even when not typing.
- Visited http://www.tc-p.com/careers/index.cfm - Checked all the companies at http://www.pghgeeks.org/pghtech.html - Checked with the folks you did your internship with, they may not be hiring, but may know somebody who is. If you didn't do computer work during the summer, getting a job will be a little harder.
The underground economy is alive north of the.ca boarder as well. Most home/car repairs and other services, like getting your grass cut or house cleaned, can be done at a discount when you deal strictly in cash. Same with rent if you have a small-time landlord.
I'm sure that the discount arises from the lower collection costs of cash, not from the desire to short change the governement by under-reporting income. Right?
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no software is good enough to pay for
You don't pay for software as much as you pay people for making software. I don't work for free and I'm betting you don't either.
The gcc compiler/toolset is great. You can tell the engineers put thier heart in the work, to paraphrase a robber baron. Putting few bucks into thier pockets to reward them for thier hard work and excellent product is A Good Thing. Recognition is great compensation if your other material needs/wants are met.
Check out the FSF shopping page. The books are great and well worth the money. The art work isn't quite my thing. Does your employer match United Way contributions? Direct some of your giving to the FSF.
You'd get less junk mail in your mailbox, so you'd spend less time and $ dealing with unwanted mail. Would this balance out against the drag introduced because it was no longer as inexpensive to send out legitimate messages? Maybe. I don't know.:-)
I agree that this would give rise to other, less costly alternatives and that's a bummer. We're really working agsinst the notion that advertising can be performed at a nearly 0 cost. If your business model works this way, you'll work hard to find the next nearly free way to advertise.
Without knowing what he charged his customers, his fine doesn't seem all that large.
I think it's about time ISP's started charging for each e-mail both sent and received, somewhat like stamps. Something tells me the elasticity looks very vertical in this market and a small cost will do wonders for reducing spam.
Fiber is a pain in the butt to pull if the walls are already closed and termination can be expensive. You just can't crimp an end on a fiber cable like copper, you need a special sanding machine.
Even after terminating the cables, you'd need to have each unit purchase equipment that could handle a fiber connection and these generally cost a lot more than a regular switch or NIC.
Since it sounds like you want to use DSL to avoid the costs of rewiring the building, how about wireless? Still more expensive on the tenant, but I think that a bunch of 802.x access points would be less than the DSL equippment you'd have to put in the wiring closet for the building. Those DSLAMS soak up a lot of power and create a proportional amount of heat, so you just can't shove one in a closet that does not have enough ventilation and have it work for long. You'd need to factor in the cost of electricity and, depending on where you live, cooling as well.
D&M Holdings said it bought inventory, receivables, intellectual property and capital equipment, and that it would also take over certain contractual relationships and liabilities.
I'm guessing that "certain contractual relationships" means customer agreements.
I don't see the business case of buying a hardware company that relies on subscriptions and then stiffing your subscribers. If you manage not to upset your subscribers, you have a good pool of people you can up-sell something to in the future. Plus, the nice word-of-mouth referrals will help pick-up business from new customers.
There's no vitamins in there either, unless they've been added after the fact. You're better off sticking with water to quench your thirst if you're health conscious and enjoying your soda/juice in moderation.
Interestingly enough, our pediatrician told us that Gatorade was better than fruit juice if the kids didn't want milk.
Then you could get conductive shoes, socks, pants and just charge the devices as you carry them around! You'd be sterile, but that's a _small_ price to pay for not having to cradle your phone.
I'm not a big fan of KDE's UI style, either. The UI seems to waste a lot of space with 3D effects and other decoration that looks nice for the first 30 minutes and then becomes distracting or even tiring.
Aside from the look, a lot of what makes a good UI can't be conveyed via a screen shot, so its difficult to pass judgement on the quality of the interface just by looking at the pictures.
AWT/Swing are still too slow. Even with the latest release.
For reasonable GUI performance SWT is the way to go. The object model approximates AWT's so there's not a huge learning curve if you want to experiment.
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Here's food for thought: the White House was fenced in the 40's. Not long befor that, you could walk-up to the front door, but typically not be admitted. Sales folk and appointment seekers would show up at all hours and annoy the butler and the residents. One Garfield was shot by a disgruntled appointment-seeker who felt slighted because the President would not meet with him.
I think Eisenhower directed the near gutting and restoration of the building, installing bullet-proof glass and other modern security features. Before WW I/II, the US was a fairly isolated country with a small federal government. If you had a gripe with the goverment, it was probably at the state level.
So you paid for the basic infastructure with taxes. I live out in the country in the US and where I'm at, the water, electricity and natural gas infastructure were all priviately developed and low cost.
The nearest town was wired by the Rural Electrification Project and the city still owns the power grid. Electricity costs twice as much. The water and sewer systems were WPA projects too, and they also cost more.
As far as I'm concerned the best very basic infastructure the government can fund is contract enforcement and honest money.
If the number of CDs remains constant with fewer sales opportunities, the price of the CDs would need to fall in order for the market to clear. This is more like a right shift in the supply curve rather than a movement along the curve. I'm tired, so forgive me if I'm wrong here.
Considering the supply curve starts at ~$20 for a new release, there's a lot of area under the curve where people won't value the product enough to make the purchase at the ~$20 price. What I don't understand is why this market isn't targeted, unless the curve is such that a much lower price wouldn't attact that many more buyers.
I guess once you structure your company to operate in an increasing returns environment, it's hard to get back to the real world.
Don't forget the first Adams! He did quite a bit of the drudge work necessary to get the country started and spent years overseas lining-up funding and for the new country.
Without money, how should scarce resources be allocated? Would you like somebody to decide who gets what based on personal whim? No matter what you do, resources will be allocated "unfairly" when somebody doesn't get as much as they want. The cash system of trade beats direct bartering as a way of transferring goods and services from buyers and sellers. Without money, could you imagine how difficult it would be to have a service-based economy?
Like it or not, greed-based, money-based, wealth-based societies do more to raise the base of human existance than any other. Yes, some people make more than others, but even the lowest earners are much better off. If you want to see a place run into the ground, visit Cuba, Nigeria, Russia or Haiti.
Everyone knows that once your code compiles, it will work!
For most school districts, the expertise for administering one OS barely exists. Most administrations view the computing system line any other infrastructure (e.g. HVAC, roofing, plumbing), get something that covers the basic needs and has predictable costs.
I know MS products aren't the best, but for a school district it works because most computers come out of the box with the operating system and mail pre-installed and they can easily hire a contractor that can fix things as necessary.
Experimentation by the students? No way. They don't let the kids experiment with the roofing or HVAC system, why should they let them experiment with the computers? The kids may break something, and they will need to call the contractor to fix it.
The Great Depression, IMHO, was due more to liquidity problems; delfation was a symptom, not a cause.
Banking was a very different business. Loans could not be sold in a secondary market like they can be today, so you have situations where the bank had callable loan from depositors backed by a mix of non-callable mortages and callable margin and personal loans. When depositors started asking for thier money, the banks called the loans they could or sold stock the held to get the extra cash. Hoover's Federal Reserve could have helped by pumping $$$ into the system.
Plus, buying stock on margin was not regulated, so a lot of deposits were lost when the market went south. Paired with non-so-good regulation and a new central bank (recall, the Fed was about 20 years old) and you have trouble in River City.
This company is annoucing plans for a product that does not exist. I'm guessing they're doing this so that other airlines don't order from Airbus in the next few years before this plane is ready. This sounds like the game some technology companies played and lost big. Think Osborne.
Since a lot of companies are moving away from hub and spoke systems, it's going to be tough for Boeing until they have more offerings outside the long haul market.
I don't know about you, but my computer usage averages about 10 hours a day. However, I don't know if I actually type for 7 hours out of the ten, after factoring in meetings and other productivity boosters.
I worry more about my eyes than wrists. I may not be typing 100 wpm constantly, but I am looking at my monitors even when not typing.
Have you:
- Visited http://www.tc-p.com/careers/index.cfm
- Checked all the companies at http://www.pghgeeks.org/pghtech.html
- Checked with the folks you did your internship with, they may not be hiring, but may know somebody who is. If you didn't do computer work during the summer, getting a job will be a little harder.
And that's if you want to stay local. Good Luck!
If they were serious, those puzzle folks would have made the reader crack the pdf instead of just hadnding out the password.
How in the world do you start solving the Corral puzzle? I've stared at this longer than I want to admit trying to figure out the algorthim.
I, Claudus
Came to power because rivals thought he was too stupid to be a threat.
John Adams
Founding father that doesn't get the respect he deserves.
Best American Short Stories
I've gotten this book for Christmas the last 5 years. Some of the short stories pack more punch than a novel.
Metamorphosis
A short twisted book by twisted guy. You'll think "What was that all about" for days.
The Plauge
How people cope with an outbreak of bubonic plague. Deep thoughts about the human condition by a first rate philosopher.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith's first book, aruges that well functioning markets require moral participants. The "invisible hand" is introduced here.
The underground economy is alive north of the .ca boarder as well. Most home/car repairs and other services, like getting your grass cut or house cleaned, can be done at a discount when you deal strictly in cash. Same with rent if you have a small-time landlord.
I'm sure that the discount arises from the lower collection costs of cash, not from the desire to short change the governement by under-reporting income. Right?
Love the idea.
no software is good enough to pay for
You don't pay for software as much as you pay people for making software. I don't work for free and I'm betting you don't either.
The gcc compiler/toolset is great. You can tell the engineers put thier heart in the work, to paraphrase a robber baron. Putting few bucks into thier pockets to reward them for thier hard work and excellent product is A Good Thing. Recognition is great compensation if your other material needs/wants are met.
Check out the FSF shopping page. The books are great and well worth the money. The art work isn't quite my thing. Does your employer match United Way contributions? Direct some of your giving to the FSF.
Good point!
:-)
You'd get less junk mail in your mailbox, so you'd spend less time and $ dealing with unwanted mail. Would this balance out against the drag introduced because it was no longer as inexpensive to send out legitimate messages? Maybe. I don't know.
I agree that this would give rise to other, less costly alternatives and that's a bummer. We're really working agsinst the notion that advertising can be performed at a nearly 0 cost. If your business model works this way, you'll work hard to find the next nearly free way to advertise.
Without knowing what he charged his customers, his fine doesn't seem all that large.
I think it's about time ISP's started charging for each e-mail both sent and received, somewhat like stamps. Something tells me the elasticity looks very vertical in this market and a small cost will do wonders for reducing spam.
Fiber is a pain in the butt to pull if the walls are already closed and termination can be expensive. You just can't crimp an end on a fiber cable like copper, you need a special sanding machine.
Even after terminating the cables, you'd need to have each unit purchase equipment that could handle a fiber connection and these generally cost a lot more than a regular switch or NIC.
Since it sounds like you want to use DSL to avoid the costs of rewiring the building, how about wireless? Still more expensive on the tenant, but I think that a bunch of 802.x access points would be less than the DSL equippment you'd have to put in the wiring closet for the building. Those DSLAMS soak up a lot of power and create a proportional amount of heat, so you just can't shove one in a closet that does not have enough ventilation and have it work for long. You'd need to factor in the cost of electricity and, depending on where you live, cooling as well.
I'm guessing that "certain contractual relationships" means customer agreements.
I don't see the business case of buying a hardware company that relies on subscriptions and then stiffing your subscribers. If you manage not to upset your subscribers, you have a good pool of people you can up-sell something to in the future. Plus, the nice word-of-mouth referrals will help pick-up business from new customers.
That parka will keep you safe from UV!
There's no vitamins in there either, unless they've been added after the fact. You're better off sticking with water to quench your thirst if you're health conscious and enjoying your soda/juice in moderation.
Interestingly enough, our pediatrician told us that Gatorade was better than fruit juice if the kids didn't want milk.
Then you could get conductive shoes, socks, pants and just charge the devices as you carry them around! You'd be sterile, but that's a _small_ price to pay for not having to cradle your phone.
I'm not a big fan of KDE's UI style, either. The UI seems to waste a lot of space with 3D effects and other decoration that looks nice for the first 30 minutes and then becomes distracting or even tiring.
Aside from the look, a lot of what makes a good UI can't be conveyed via a screen shot, so its difficult to pass judgement on the quality of the interface just by looking at the pictures.
AWT/Swing are still too slow. Even with the latest release.
For reasonable GUI performance SWT is the way to go. The object model approximates AWT's so there's not a huge learning curve if you want to experiment.