And I'd counter by saying that the number of days per year you need to haul mulch, tow the boat, or move furniture would easily be met by renting a larger vehicle when you need it, and driving a smaller car the rest of the time.
Instead of paying $500 a month to finance your SUV, you could pay $250 a month for a smaller car and rent the SUV for 2 days every month and still be ahead.
In addition, your fuel costs per year would be (15,000 miles / 30 mpg * $3 per gallon) = $1,500 instead of (15,000 / 15 * 3) = $3000, so that should add into the equation as well.
But, people don't want to be rational about their vehicle choices, they just all want to drive Escalades. Just another tragedy of the commons
So this means there are 35 people who can't do math? If I can buy the paper for $4.50 and burn it, and get online access, or just buy online access for $5.00, which should you choose?
The problem with their business model is that isn't priced any differently, even though the distribution costs are nearly zero. Charge $5 a month, or $5 a year and you'd probably get more people to sign up.
FWIW, I still don't understand why mp3s cost the same per track as an actual CD, except for the convenience of having it right now.
"Despite its name, the Monitor is not a religious-themed paper, and does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. However, at its founder Eddy's request, a daily religious article has appeared in every issue of the Monitor."
We were just talking about this at work today. I believe that the disconnect between SQL and domain objects comes from the different ways to model data available now. For example, if you define your data with XML first, you can easily add more features than a database can handle. The simple example that seems to keep popping up at work is inheritance. You create a Shape base class, then extend it with Point, Circle, Polygon, etc. etc. Logical, object-oriented and totally allowed in XML. However, putting it into a database is a mess. You wind up with a parent Point table, a type, and then a set of child tables, one of which is populated. (If there's a better way to do this, let me know).
So the only way to create a useable database schema is to create that first, and work around the limitations in the relational table model. Otherwise, you will wind up jumping through hoops of your own creation. And I think that's what this group is up to: allowing persistence of arbitrary objects, defined and created agnostically of the storage mechanism.
You're right. We should go on building heavy machinery to drill for oil, transporting that machinery around the world, drill down through thousands of feet of rock to get the oil, pump the oil back to the surface, transport it to a refinery, refine it into whatever form we want to use it, transport it again to a local holding site to await being pumped into our cars. That's much better.
But that's the problem when working with the government: you have to show ineptitude sufficient to actually spend all the money. It doesn't matter that it could be done for $500k, you have to find ways to spend all the $40m.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go do 6 months of design modeling before beginning code.
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Well, what IF one of those bottles should happen to fall?
And I'd counter by saying that the number of days per year you need to haul mulch, tow the boat, or move furniture would easily be met by renting a larger vehicle when you need it, and driving a smaller car the rest of the time.
Instead of paying $500 a month to finance your SUV, you could pay $250 a month for a smaller car and rent the SUV for 2 days every month and still be ahead.
In addition, your fuel costs per year would be (15,000 miles / 30 mpg * $3 per gallon) = $1,500 instead of (15,000 / 15 * 3) = $3000, so that should add into the equation as well.
But, people don't want to be rational about their vehicle choices, they just all want to drive Escalades. Just another tragedy of the commons
Not to mention Google Federal or Google's Fiber plans or you know, Android.
Not to mention replies to résumés.
So this means there are 35 people who can't do math? If I can buy the paper for $4.50 and burn it, and get online access, or just buy online access for $5.00, which should you choose?
The problem with their business model is that isn't priced any differently, even though the distribution costs are nearly zero. Charge $5 a month, or $5 a year and you'd probably get more people to sign up.
FWIW, I still don't understand why mp3s cost the same per track as an actual CD, except for the convenience of having it right now.
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I'll bet it is.
Ahem, "endowed by their creator" is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
I believe the meme is: "Yo dawg, I heard you like surfing, so I put a browser in your browser, so you can surf while you surf."
I am Spartacus.
Nor was it presumably capable of destroying a star. Now, the super star destroyer surely was capable of destroying a superstar.
April Fool's Day?
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I've seen the same head seven times. Does that count?
So, does this mean that soon any TV plugged directly into the coax cable won't work?
Here, let me find the wiki page for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science_Monitor
"Despite its name, the Monitor is not a religious-themed paper, and does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. However, at its founder Eddy's request, a daily religious article has appeared in every issue of the Monitor."
No, there was never any doubt.
Volkswagen Beetles are the commonly accepted unit of volume, thank you.
A joke from my childhood:
How does every racist joke start?
*looks around*
We were just talking about this at work today. I believe that the disconnect between SQL and domain objects comes from the different ways to model data available now. For example, if you define your data with XML first, you can easily add more features than a database can handle. The simple example that seems to keep popping up at work is inheritance. You create a Shape base class, then extend it with Point, Circle, Polygon, etc. etc. Logical, object-oriented and totally allowed in XML. However, putting it into a database is a mess. You wind up with a parent Point table, a type, and then a set of child tables, one of which is populated. (If there's a better way to do this, let me know).
So the only way to create a useable database schema is to create that first, and work around the limitations in the relational table model. Otherwise, you will wind up jumping through hoops of your own creation. And I think that's what this group is up to: allowing persistence of arbitrary objects, defined and created agnostically of the storage mechanism.
...Revolutions come from within, which is why we're spending trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
Not sure I follow that logic.
You're right. We should go on building heavy machinery to drill for oil, transporting that machinery around the world, drill down through thousands of feet of rock to get the oil, pump the oil back to the surface, transport it to a refinery, refine it into whatever form we want to use it, transport it again to a local holding site to await being pumped into our cars. That's much better.
But that's the problem when working with the government: you have to show ineptitude sufficient to actually spend all the money. It doesn't matter that it could be done for $500k, you have to find ways to spend all the $40m.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go do 6 months of design modeling before beginning code.
Or ensure that no one in the city government has any technical competence.
Did you just invent braille?
Is it even possible to build a "Made in America" computer?