our personal vote for any "3rd party" candidate makes MORE difference than your vote for Disneycrats or Ruperticans. Consider that a "3rd party" only needs to make a substantial showing to "influence" political policy - if the Libertarians, for example, got 20% of the vote, they certainly wouldn't "win", but "the two parties" would almost certainly moderate their policies, at least in the open, in a "libertarian direction" in an attempt to "win back" some of that chunk
yes! This cannot be stressed enough! Most new political ideas come from the "third parties" and are later adopted reluctantly by the Democrats and Republicans. Those parties want the STATUS QUO, not new ideas that threaten their cushy jobs and sweet campaign financing from big business.
Third party candidates (such as Ralph Nader) are not spoilers. The two main candidates' political platforms are spoiling their elections for them. In 2004, do you think Al Gore will become more right/moderate in an attempt to steal votes from Bush? or will Gore try to sound more liberal in an attempt to steal Ralph Nader votes?
anyways, I'll be voting for Jesse Ventura in 2004..;-)
The emergence of a de facto standard is inevitable. It's called the Virtuous Cycle. Users and vendors are more likely to use and invest in the market leader, which increases is market lead. Rinse and repeat. For better or worse, that's why Windows rules the desktop today. It's easier and cheaper to just support one standard.
MDI tabs are just a weak substitute for your window manager's poor handling of many windows. I have used Mozilla (on Windows) with tabbed browsing and it is no better than IE. Why is having a tab of 15 pages on the top of your browser better than having a tab of 15 windows at the bottom of your screen? Windows XP can automatically consolidate your IE windows into a single taskbar item. The list of IE windows is available when you want it, but it does not steal valuable vertical screen real estate all the time like Mozilla's tabs.
Doesn't having a single static list of "bad words" defeat the point of Paul Graham's adaptive Bayesian filter? Each user will have a different set of good-words and spam-words, depending on their set of friends/interests and which spammers' lists they are on. And that makes each spam filter more effective for that person and makes the spammers' lives more difficult because there are no definitive lists to hack.
I think the RIAA does not actually expect to go to court. They probably just want the backbone providers to compare the cost of going to court versus simply blacklisting "just one web site". Once the Listen4ever.com precedent has been set, then the RIAA could keep pestering the backbone providers with more web sites to blacklist.
This would make spam detection EASIER! Sure, the first spam written like that would probably pass through undetected. But when the user hits the (mythical) delete-as-spam button, then the filter would recognize that of the emails containing phrases like "MAKE", 100% of them were spam and 0% were real emails. When the second "MAKE" email arrives, it will be immediately detected as "fishy".;-)
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His name might not even be Ben. Perhaps he changed his name from Mortimer to Ben after he was lucky enough to nab ben.com.:-)
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Thanks for the advice. My office has free milk in the kitchen fridge, so that makes things easy for me!:-)
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Did you use any supplements or power drinks? I'm still trying to figure out whether they are science or just product marketing hype.
I've been trying to put on weight, but I've only gained about 10 pounds over the last year. I guess I'm afraid to eat too many extra calories, fearing they'll turn to fat before they turn to muscle.:-\ How much milk did you actually drink?
that is the point. I believe that is a Carl Sagan quote about extraterrestrials. Just because have no real proof of their existence does not mean that they do not exist.
Instead of "investing" two months salary in a tiny diamond, why not use that money for a superb honeymoon? That is something you both can enjoy. For example, if you have $20M you might be able to visit Space Station Alpha.;-)
If she just wants the ring, then perhaps she is a gold digger.
Dietary fiber is the part of a plant that provides and maintains the plant's structure. Cellulose, hemicellulose, polysaccharides, pectins, gums, mucilages, and lignins are dietary fibers. These fibers are unrelated chemically, however, they all have one thing in common -- they can't be digested by the human body. For this reason, they can help correct disorders of the large intestine (colon), and keep it functioning normally. Therefore, it is important to increase the amount of fiber in the diet.
we can not digest plant material thoroughly because we lack the ability to break down plant cell walls, thereby refusing our digestive system access to the chemicals needed inside the cell.
In the case of MSFT and others who don't pay dividends, you are buying a portion of the assets of the company. You assume that through wise action of the company, the company will gain assets, thus you will gain assets.
So how or when do I get my share of MSFT's assets? At a going-out-of-business fire sale? When you are hoping the company will survive and grow, the idea of personally gaining my share of MSFT's assets seems quite abstract.
Dividends make sense because they almost a form of profit-sharing.
I agree that not every company can or should strive to be a $100M company. I sometimes wonder how many accounting scandals and dot-com companies we would have if there was no such thing as the stock market. What if every company was a privately-owned company? No stock selling scandals, no "cooking the books" for hitting quarterly earnings estimates, and no underwater stock options.
I guess this is almost a philosophical question. What is the PURPOSE of a company? To make money, provide jobs, improve the world, or increase its stock price?
I mean, what is the REAL value of owning a company's stock? If the company does not pay dividends (such as MSFT), then what am I really buying and selling? Regardless of the dot-com bubble, the stock market still seems mostly like a pyramid scheme..
I definitely agree. I just thought of my classes as grades. I unfortunately did not approach my classes are preparation for the Real World. Classes with big projects look good on your resume when you have no job experience. Summer internships with real companies are also a GREAT way to get real experience and make contacts.
Get to know your fellow classmates because they will be great contacts for future jobs when you all get out! Many times it is WHO you know.. but also get to know some people outside of your major.
I would also spend more time studying and more time partying!;-)
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Brian Jonestown Massacre? now that is true rawk power.
Vote = Corporation - Money
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Does this equation simply mean that to get a vote, a corporation must pay some money? We already knew that!
There IS strength in numbers.
and you can't get more numbers than on the Internet!
our personal vote for any "3rd party" candidate makes MORE difference than your vote for Disneycrats or Ruperticans. Consider that a "3rd party" only needs to make a substantial showing to "influence" political policy - if the Libertarians, for example, got 20% of the vote, they certainly wouldn't "win", but "the two parties" would almost certainly moderate their policies, at least in the open, in a "libertarian direction" in an attempt to "win back" some of that chunk
;-)
yes! This cannot be stressed enough! Most new political ideas come from the "third parties" and are later adopted reluctantly by the Democrats and Republicans. Those parties want the STATUS QUO, not new ideas that threaten their cushy jobs and sweet campaign financing from big business.
Third party candidates (such as Ralph Nader) are not spoilers. The two main candidates' political platforms are spoiling their elections for them. In 2004, do you think Al Gore will become more right/moderate in an attempt to steal votes from Bush? or will Gore try to sound more liberal in an attempt to steal Ralph Nader votes?
anyways, I'll be voting for Jesse Ventura in 2004..
Rightease Babe? that is quite a Freudian slip! ;-)
The emergence of a de facto standard is inevitable. It's called the Virtuous Cycle. Users and vendors are more likely to use and invest in the market leader, which increases is market lead. Rinse and repeat. For better or worse, that's why Windows rules the desktop today. It's easier and cheaper to just support one standard.
MDI tabs are just a weak substitute for your window manager's poor handling of many windows. I have used Mozilla (on Windows) with tabbed browsing and it is no better than IE. Why is having a tab of 15 pages on the top of your browser better than having a tab of 15 windows at the bottom of your screen? Windows XP can automatically consolidate your IE windows into a single taskbar item. The list of IE windows is available when you want it, but it does not steal valuable vertical screen real estate all the time like Mozilla's tabs.
spam unnatural
cut cows however you want
you will not find it
btw, spam ("Spiced Ham") is from pigs, not cows. that would explain why you will not find it in cows.
btw, your spam archive and graphs are really cool! I'm glad someone is archiving and analyzing this "data".
Doesn't having a single static list of "bad words" defeat the point of Paul Graham's adaptive Bayesian filter? Each user will have a different set of good-words and spam-words, depending on their set of friends/interests and which spammers' lists they are on. And that makes each spam filter more effective for that person and makes the spammers' lives more difficult because there are no definitive lists to hack.
I think the RIAA does not actually expect to go to court. They probably just want the backbone providers to compare the cost of going to court versus simply blacklisting "just one web site". Once the Listen4ever.com precedent has been set, then the RIAA could keep pestering the backbone providers with more web sites to blacklist.
Those abuses might happen in Russia, but that would never happen in the United States.
This would make spam detection EASIER! Sure, the first spam written like that would probably pass through undetected. But when the user hits the (mythical) delete-as-spam button, then the filter would recognize that of the emails containing phrases like "MAKE", 100% of them were spam and 0% were real emails. When the second "MAKE" email arrives, it will be immediately detected as "fishy".
His name might not even be Ben. Perhaps he changed his name from Mortimer to Ben after he was lucky enough to nab ben.com.
Thanks for the advice. My office has free milk in the kitchen fridge, so that makes things easy for me!
Did you use any supplements or power drinks? I'm still trying to figure out whether they are science or just product marketing hype.
I've been trying to put on weight, but I've only gained about 10 pounds over the last year. I guess I'm afraid to eat too many extra calories, fearing they'll turn to fat before they turn to muscle.
that is the point. I believe that is a Carl Sagan quote about extraterrestrials. Just because have no real proof of their existence does not mean that they do not exist.
Instead of "investing" two months salary in a tiny diamond, why not use that money for a superb honeymoon? That is something you both can enjoy. For example, if you have $20M you might be able to visit Space Station Alpha. ;-)
If she just wants the ring, then perhaps she is a gold digger.
if the revenue generated from l33t Mozilla shoppers is less than the cost of web development and QA, why again is this a good business decision?
Don't forget about AOLserver, AOL's GPL multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server.
High Fiber Diet
Dietary fiber is the part of a plant that provides and maintains the plant's structure. Cellulose, hemicellulose, polysaccharides, pectins, gums, mucilages, and lignins are dietary fibers. These fibers are unrelated chemically, however, they all have one thing in common -- they can't be digested by the human body. For this reason, they can help correct disorders of the large intestine (colon), and keep it functioning normally. Therefore, it is important to increase the amount of fiber in the diet.
we can not digest plant material thoroughly because we lack the ability to break down plant cell walls, thereby refusing our digestive system access to the chemicals needed inside the cell.
This is called fiber and it is good for you!
Why is fiber important to your diet?
In the case of MSFT and others who don't pay dividends, you are buying a portion of the assets of the company. You assume that through wise action of the company, the company will gain assets, thus you will gain assets.
So how or when do I get my share of MSFT's assets? At a going-out-of-business fire sale? When you are hoping the company will survive and grow, the idea of personally gaining my share of MSFT's assets seems quite abstract.
Dividends make sense because they almost a form of profit-sharing.
I agree that not every company can or should strive to be a $100M company. I sometimes wonder how many accounting scandals and dot-com companies we would have if there was no such thing as the stock market. What if every company was a privately-owned company? No stock selling scandals, no "cooking the books" for hitting quarterly earnings estimates, and no underwater stock options.
I guess this is almost a philosophical question. What is the PURPOSE of a company? To make money, provide jobs, improve the world, or increase its stock price?
I mean, what is the REAL value of owning a company's stock? If the company does not pay dividends (such as MSFT), then what am I really buying and selling? Regardless of the dot-com bubble, the stock market still seems mostly like a pyramid scheme..
I definitely agree. I just thought of my classes as grades. I unfortunately did not approach my classes are preparation for the Real World. Classes with big projects look good on your resume when you have no job experience. Summer internships with real companies are also a GREAT way to get real experience and make contacts.
Get to know your fellow classmates because they will be great contacts for future jobs when you all get out! Many times it is WHO you know.. but also get to know some people outside of your major.
I would also spend more time studying and more time partying!