I graduated from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas with a B.S.B.A in Information Systems. Wal-Mart was nice enough to donate a big chunk (~1 Terabyte) of information for us to datamine. It's pretty interesting stuff and very CPU intensive, as you can probably imagine; we tried not to do any CD burning while waiting on our results;) IIRC, It seems like one of the strange correlations we found is that the two items most commonly purchased together were beer and baby diapers. Go figure...
About 3 weeks of owning my Powerbook G4, I spilled Diet Dr. Pepper all over the keyboard. The screen went fuzzy and haywire, then black. I tilted it on its edge, and let it dry overnight. The next day, it worked fine. Has worked flawlessly ever since.
I used to work at at a major electronics retailer - we'll just call it Speaker City - and we had training computers in the back (*old* IBM's or something. They ran Windows 95 or some crap.) Anyways, I got bored and decided to show out - I poured water into the floppy drive while it was running. Funny thing is, that's about the only thing that *didn't* make it blue screen!
By using its existing TCP/IP networks and spending $4 million for a Cisco Call Manager, the university circumvented its local carrier and reduced monthly service fees from $530,000 to a mere $6,000.
GREAT IDEA! They spent $4,000,000 to save 500,000.
Of course, this is Arkansas we're talking about. They aren't much good with the number-learnin'.
(and there's no mention of other facility/staff expenses, either, so who knows how much money this really "saves")
As a senior business student at the University of Arkansas, I can confidently say that you have no concept of returns on investments. I can guarantee that the University of Arkansas knows exactly how much money it will be saving, and exactly when this investment will pay for itself. Our Information Systems department emphasizes such business decisions from day one of upper-level ISYS classes.
Incidently, the Sam M. Walton College of Business is the #28 public business school in the nation, and is in the top 50 rankings of public and private business schools. If you'd like to grasp a concept such as ROI, you might apply.
I work at a (big-name) electronics store. I would imagine the reason is that most of your devices will go through your receiver which requires only one DVI connection to your TV.
refer explicitly or implicitly to a "reasonable person." IANAL, but IAGTBAL (I am going to be a lawyer) and with the business law courses I've had in my undergraduate work, I've found that the courts apply this "reasonable person" standard to most laws like this.
Some crimes require "malicious intent" to be proven, but most of the time the court views malice as proven if the crime was in fact committed. How do you prove malice? Well, if you walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, that act, to a reasonable person, would be malicious.
As one of his constituents, I doubt he will listen (a lot of people in Arkansas recognize that he is in office for the wrong reasons), but I would say that's because most government officials will not take time to look at this issue in depth. The MPAA and RIAA can be very loud.
Still has a mainframe. And they use 99% COBOL code in everything they write, even today.
Here's the philosophy: It's not technical; it's business.
The amount of money that would have to be spent is astronomical, and you would be spending that money to get to the same point that you are right now, just on different machines with different languages.
It costs the company six digits per hour that the mission-critical systems fail.
Do you not see that it is much easier to support than to modernize?
...because quality is measured by how well a product lives up to its design specifications. As a derivative, quality to the consumer is defined as meeting (or, some would argue, exceeding) the consumer's expectations. Everyone expects a McDonald's burger to taste the same everywhere. It does. That's quality.
In other words, quality = consistent conformity.
Taste is an entirely different issue...
If you are buying a highiend program like that, most undoubtedly you own or work for a corporation or other business. In which case, you'd be buying a license. It wouldn't matter if you lost the install media--it could be replaced because the company would have you on record as owning the license.
At the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, we have Smart Boards in every classroom. They are incredibly useful, as they display the source computer's screen, function as a touch screen (great for PowerPoint presentations, you just touch the screen to progress), and allow you to write with electronic "markers" (like the sports announcers) and an electronic "eraser". You can also write on them with regular dry erase markers, since they function as regular white boards as well. They are wonderful, and the rest of the University of Arkansas is about to follow suit by putting them in the other colleges...
I can confirm that my parents' friends, who are farmers, were using GPS in 1994 for this purpose. They had data collectors in combines, and he had to have an external PCMCIA reader hooked to his PC to read the data. (I used to live in Stuttgart, Arkansas, Rice Capital of the World.)
... and neither are the other nine ammendments in the Bill of Rights. While the fourteenth ammendment applies the first 10 ammendments to the states, states can still limit freedom of speech. In order for a state to limit your freedom of speech as a business, for example, the government must do three things:
Show compelling state interest - a goal for the state such as temperence in alcohol use, public safety, etc
Show material relationship between the statute and the compelling interest - that is, the action they are taking must be materially related to the goal they are trying to achieve
Attempt or consider alternatives - self explanatory
Interpretation of the Constitution requires more than an elementary education about how our government works. Get educated.
Well, good folks, As much as you'd like to put me down, I didn't say anything that was factually untrue. You may disagree with my opinions. But that doesn't mean that my facts were not straight. I didn't say anything about how he came to power. I am educated about that. Yes, I know all about Mein Kampf, the Beer Hall Putzch , the SS. It is important to learn from it. Citizens MUST maintain control of their own government. The sooner you people wake up, the better.
I swear, It makes me sick to hear comments like "Outlawing guns will prevent things like this from happening." Sometimes I think people can't reason past their own nose. "Hey I have a great idea! Why don't we give up all of our freedom, a bit at a time, in exchange for an illusion of security!" Great idea, Einstein. BAHHHHH!! Get in the corral my friend. You're being herded like Germans in pre-WWII. You want to give the U.S. government so much control that you bearly even have to decide what to watch on your televisions safely tucked away behind your white picket fence in your gated neighborhood. Here's an idea, force the American populace to re-take some history courses. Why don't you study Adolf Hitler. He was all for taking guns away from the public. That way there's no opposition when he decides to declare himself Fuhrer. Don't think that it can never happen to America folks. You sheep make me sick.
Yes I was talking about that specific phrase. The first ammendment, however does not prohibit politicians, leaders, or governemental officials from talking religously. It prohibits Congress and Congress only from passing legislation respecting or prohibiting religious establishments and excerise. Separation of Church and State has worked its way into law by case law and precedence. That is why you can outlaw prayer in school, not because of the First Ammendment.
I agree. A politician can say what he wants about God, Satan, the Tooth Fairy. It is protected speech under the First Ammendment. Congress passing laws prohibiting or encouraging religion is what is illegal.
By the way, Separation of Church and State for those of you who are not in the know (if you are not then you need to be) is in no way mentioned in the Constitution of the United States. It was mentioned in a personal letter of Thomas Jefferson. Just an added tidbit of trivia knowledge.
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lol I saw the same thing at first glance!
umm... six figures for a night in jail? I think you have a small misunderstanding of how damages sounding in tort work...
I graduated from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas with a B.S.B.A in Information Systems. Wal-Mart was nice enough to donate a big chunk (~1 Terabyte) of information for us to datamine. It's pretty interesting stuff and very CPU intensive, as you can probably imagine; we tried not to do any CD burning while waiting on our results ;)
IIRC, It seems like one of the strange correlations we found is that the two items most commonly purchased together were beer and baby diapers. Go figure...
About 3 weeks of owning my Powerbook G4, I spilled Diet Dr. Pepper all over the keyboard. The screen went fuzzy and haywire, then black. I tilted it on its edge, and let it dry overnight. The next day, it worked fine. Has worked flawlessly ever since.
I used to work at at a major electronics retailer - we'll just call it Speaker City - and we had training computers in the back (*old* IBM's or something. They ran Windows 95 or some crap.) Anyways, I got bored and decided to show out - I poured water into the floppy drive while it was running. Funny thing is, that's about the only thing that *didn't* make it blue screen!
As a senior business student at the University of Arkansas, I can confidently say that you have no concept of returns on investments. I can guarantee that the University of Arkansas knows exactly how much money it will be saving, and exactly when this investment will pay for itself. Our Information Systems department emphasizes such business decisions from day one of upper-level ISYS classes.
Incidently, the Sam M. Walton College of Business is the #28 public business school in the nation, and is in the top 50 rankings of public and private business schools. If you'd like to grasp a concept such as ROI, you might apply.
I work at a (big-name) electronics store. I would imagine the reason is that most of your devices will go through your receiver which requires only one DVI connection to your TV.
refer explicitly or implicitly to a "reasonable person." IANAL, but IAGTBAL (I am going to be a lawyer) and with the business law courses I've had in my undergraduate work, I've found that the courts apply this "reasonable person" standard to most laws like this.
Some crimes require "malicious intent" to be proven, but most of the time the court views malice as proven if the crime was in fact committed. How do you prove malice? Well, if you walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, that act, to a reasonable person, would be malicious.
Same logic here, I would suppose.
As one of his constituents, I doubt he will listen (a lot of people in Arkansas recognize that he is in office for the wrong reasons), but I would say that's because most government officials will not take time to look at this issue in depth. The MPAA and RIAA can be very loud.
Mr. Ferris Beuler.
Still has a mainframe. And they use 99% COBOL code in everything they write, even today. Here's the philosophy: It's not technical; it's business.
The amount of money that would have to be spent is astronomical, and you would be spending that money to get to the same point that you are right now, just on different machines with different languages.
It costs the company six digits per hour that the mission-critical systems fail.
Do you not see that it is much easier to support than to modernize?
...because quality is measured by how well a product lives up to its design specifications.
As a derivative, quality to the consumer is defined as meeting (or, some would argue, exceeding) the consumer's expectations.
Everyone expects a McDonald's burger to taste the same everywhere. It does. That's quality.
In other words, quality = consistent conformity.
Taste is an entirely different issue...
... but this seems like it would have great ramifications for the intelligence community. Of course, they've probably had this technology for years...
If you are buying a highiend program like that, most undoubtedly you own or work for a corporation or other business. In which case, you'd be buying a license. It wouldn't matter if you lost the install media--it could be replaced because the company would have you on record as owning the license.
A question: What does that say about God?
At the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, we have Smart Boards in every classroom. They are incredibly useful, as they display the source computer's screen, function as a touch screen (great for PowerPoint presentations, you just touch the screen to progress), and allow you to write with electronic "markers" (like the sports announcers) and an electronic "eraser". You can also write on them with regular dry erase markers, since they function as regular white boards as well. They are wonderful, and the rest of the University of Arkansas is about to follow suit by putting them in the other colleges...
I can confirm that my parents' friends, who are farmers, were using GPS in 1994 for this purpose. They had data collectors in combines, and he had to have an external PCMCIA reader hooked to his PC to read the data. (I used to live in Stuttgart, Arkansas, Rice Capital of the World.)
Interpretation of the Constitution requires more than an elementary education about how our government works. Get educated.
Can we put linux on them and make about 40 of them a beowolf/napster/metallica pirating cluster!
@*(*&$@)!!!!!*$()(*@@@@
There will ALWAYS be trouble in the Balkans and in the Holy Land.. ALWAYS.
Well, good folks,
As much as you'd like to put me down, I didn't say anything that was factually untrue. You may disagree with my opinions. But that doesn't mean that my facts were not straight. I didn't say anything about how he came to power. I am educated about that. Yes, I know all about Mein Kampf, the Beer Hall Putzch , the SS. It is important to learn from it. Citizens MUST maintain control of their own government. The sooner you people wake up, the better.
I swear,
It makes me sick to hear comments like "Outlawing guns will prevent things like this from happening." Sometimes I think people can't reason past their own nose. "Hey I have a great idea! Why don't we give up all of our freedom, a bit at a time, in exchange for an illusion of security!" Great idea, Einstein. BAHHHHH!! Get in the corral my friend. You're being herded like Germans in pre-WWII. You want to give the U.S. government so much control that you bearly even have to decide what to watch on your televisions safely tucked away behind your white picket fence in your gated neighborhood. Here's an idea, force the American populace to re-take some history courses. Why don't you study Adolf Hitler. He was all for taking guns away from the public. That way there's no opposition when he decides to declare himself Fuhrer. Don't think that it can never happen to America folks. You sheep make me sick.
You, sir or m'am have no clue what you are talking about. Get one or don't post anonymously. I am surprised that post wasn't moderated.
Yes I was talking about that specific phrase. The first ammendment, however does not prohibit politicians, leaders, or governemental officials from talking religously. It prohibits Congress and Congress only from passing legislation respecting or prohibiting religious establishments and excerise. Separation of Church and State has worked its way into law by case law and precedence. That is why you can outlaw prayer in school, not because of the First Ammendment.
I agree. A politician can say what he wants about God, Satan, the Tooth Fairy. It is protected speech under the First Ammendment. Congress passing laws prohibiting or encouraging religion is what is illegal.
By the way, Separation of Church and State for those of you who are not in the know (if you are not then you need to be) is in no way mentioned in the Constitution of the United States. It was mentioned in a personal letter of Thomas Jefferson. Just an added tidbit of trivia knowledge.