Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class.
IBM didn't lose the court case that counted (appeals court - SCOTUS denied cert).
Anybody younger than about 50 at IBM is on a hybrid (cash balance) plan...
Unemployment insurance is quite cheap, and the premiums are only paid on the first few thousand dollars of wages.
The net effect is nowhere near paying two salaries, unless one of them is in Zimbabwe....
TFA says he's in Des Moines and claimed $24K in salary for 2002 and 2003.
The BLS website shows that the mean annual income for "Accountants and auditors" in Des Moines for those two years was $46K and $49K, respectively.
The distinction between Mr. Watson and Mssrs. Jobs, Ellison, Brin, et al, is that the salaries of the latter are set by independent boards of directors of public companies.
Mr. Watson set his own salary, which the court found was not commensurate with the market rate for that sort of work.
This reminds me of the IBM Secure Cryptoprocessors, which are *pretty much* physically secure. But still people get in now and then usually through software or neat stasis tricks so the device can't respond to your intrusion.
I know Markus Kuhn et al have published some software-based attacks against CCA (the standard software IBM ships with the coprocessor), all of which have been fixed.
I have not seen anything about a successful attack against the secure hardware enclosure. Got a link?
Are you trying to say that the WSJ is something good, and hence he can”t be that bad?
I’m sorry but that doesn’t work, since the WSJ in now included for the very reason of fitting the rest of his portfolio perfectly, in terms of crappiness. ^^
No, I'm saying that the post to which I responded in which the poster said he'd pay for the WSJ but not for Murdoch's crap is internally inconsistent...
...before Murdoch destroyed one of the greatest newspapers in the world. I'd gladly pay to read the NYT or the Washington Post online, just as I've paid for the WSJ online for a decade, but pay to read Murdoch's crap? Heck, I'd gladly pay money to keep it from showing up in my search results.
Murdoch's crap now includes the WSJ.
Just sayin....
The Chinese government activelly encourages Chinese companies and people to steal ideas and processes from Western companies so that they can later compete with them not just in China but also outside.
Even the laws there are done in such a way that any Western company that wants to enter the Chinese market has to do so in a joint venture with a Chinese company which then can learn from said Western company. There are already cases where once a couple of Chinese companies where "trained" in this way, the laws where changed to kick out the Western companies and those Chinese companies started competing in that area outside China.
Example: Lenovo.
Sending your R&D to China is pretty much just giving it for free to the Chinese government.
[Note that I am not critical of the Chinese for doing this: they're doing what's good for them at the expense of dumb Western shareholders]
it's all about installed cost per KWh per year. He shows charts of where the cost has to be to compete with other energy sources without subsidies. (This changes with latitude; as you get closer to the equator, it gets better. Spain is competitive now.)
Madrid is at roughly the same latitude as New York City, so much of the US should also be "competitive."
Yet somehow I don't see too many solar farms around here....
"to position themselves to do more business where the money is"
The money, by and large, is still in the West.
"Growth markets" accounted for 19% of revenue in fiscal 2009, according to IBM's annual report.
Yes, the single input queue.
They added a watchdog of some sort, IIRC, but it never really worked all that well and a misbehaving app could still lock the desktop.
Apparently there were some banking apps that relied on the behavior and they didn't feel they could change it. I always thought that if they restricted the model to a single input queue per PM child they would have had the best of both worlds.
The main problem with OS/2 was that it came out too soon, and so the muckety mucks decreed that it had to run on a 286, and so lots of it was 16-bit, and so when the 386 came out the move to 32-bit was painful.
The second problem with OS/2 was the GUI's single-threaded model....
Similarly, we can envision a calamity that wipes out trees (and paper), thereby making the dollar bill worth more than $1 (presumably in coin).
We can also envision the price of gold collapsing, so that the value of the gold in a $50 Eagle is less than 50 $1 bills.
In short, your proposed candidate fails the test, for the same reasons you find the $50 gold piece absurd.
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In March 2015 Verizon essentially sold off over 11000 cell towers to American Tower....
Your father was in upper management. That explains it.
Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class.
It's Der Fuerher...
(Did you take German in 7th or 8th grade?)
"My wife is under 30 ... I am older"
1. I am older
2. ???
3. My wife is under 30
4. Profit!!
Under what legal theory do you think a court would conclude a program that links to a GPL'd dynamic library is a derived work of that library?
Prevailing wisdom is IBM is a tech company, this plan applies to people who are retiring next year so they're about 64, right?
Retirement eligible after 30 years, so many in their early 50s...
IBM didn't lose the court case that counted (appeals court - SCOTUS denied cert). Anybody younger than about 50 at IBM is on a hybrid (cash balance) plan...
Unemployment insurance is quite cheap, and the premiums are only paid on the first few thousand dollars of wages. The net effect is nowhere near paying two salaries, unless one of them is in Zimbabwe....
TFA says he's in Des Moines and claimed $24K in salary for 2002 and 2003. The BLS website shows that the mean annual income for "Accountants and auditors" in Des Moines for those two years was $46K and $49K, respectively.
http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm
Oh, they get paid a lot more than $1. But it's in forms that isn't subject to FICA (e.g., incentive stock options).
The distinction between Mr. Watson and Mssrs. Jobs, Ellison, Brin, et al, is that the salaries of the latter are set by independent boards of directors of public companies. Mr. Watson set his own salary, which the court found was not commensurate with the market rate for that sort of work.
Most any college team I know of (SEC ones in my experience) MAKE the universities money by the barrel full.
These teams not only support themselves, but pour money back into the general university system.
Check your stats a bit more carefully.
The University of Kentucky athletics department brings in about $60 million/year in revenue.
That funds their budget (and Calipari's grotesque salary). Roughly $1 million, IIRC, makes its way back into the general university system.
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This reminds me of the IBM Secure Cryptoprocessors, which are *pretty much* physically secure. But still people get in now and then usually through software or neat stasis tricks so the device can't respond to your intrusion.
I know Markus Kuhn et al have published some software-based attacks against CCA (the standard software IBM ships with the coprocessor), all of which have been fixed. I have not seen anything about a successful attack against the secure hardware enclosure. Got a link?
Are you trying to say that the WSJ is something good, and hence he can”t be that bad? I’m sorry but that doesn’t work, since the WSJ in now included for the very reason of fitting the rest of his portfolio perfectly, in terms of crappiness. ^^
No, I'm saying that the post to which I responded in which the poster said he'd pay for the WSJ but not for Murdoch's crap is internally inconsistent...
...before Murdoch destroyed one of the greatest newspapers in the world. I'd gladly pay to read the NYT or the Washington Post online, just as I've paid for the WSJ online for a decade, but pay to read Murdoch's crap? Heck, I'd gladly pay money to keep it from showing up in my search results.
Murdoch's crap now includes the WSJ. Just sayin....
The Chinese government activelly encourages Chinese companies and people to steal ideas and processes from Western companies so that they can later compete with them not just in China but also outside.
Even the laws there are done in such a way that any Western company that wants to enter the Chinese market has to do so in a joint venture with a Chinese company which then can learn from said Western company. There are already cases where once a couple of Chinese companies where "trained" in this way, the laws where changed to kick out the Western companies and those Chinese companies started competing in that area outside China.
Example: Lenovo.
Sending your R&D to China is pretty much just giving it for free to the Chinese government.
[Note that I am not critical of the Chinese for doing this: they're doing what's good for them at the expense of dumb Western shareholders]
Lenovo? Who'd they JV with?
it's all about installed cost per KWh per year. He shows charts of where the cost has to be to compete with other energy sources without subsidies. (This changes with latitude; as you get closer to the equator, it gets better. Spain is competitive now.)
Madrid is at roughly the same latitude as New York City, so much of the US should also be "competitive." Yet somehow I don't see too many solar farms around here....
"to position themselves to do more business where the money is" The money, by and large, is still in the West. "Growth markets" accounted for 19% of revenue in fiscal 2009, according to IBM's annual report.
Yes, the single input queue. They added a watchdog of some sort, IIRC, but it never really worked all that well and a misbehaving app could still lock the desktop. Apparently there were some banking apps that relied on the behavior and they didn't feel they could change it. I always thought that if they restricted the model to a single input queue per PM child they would have had the best of both worlds.
The main problem with OS/2 was that it came out too soon, and so the muckety mucks decreed that it had to run on a 286, and so lots of it was 16-bit, and so when the 386 came out the move to 32-bit was painful. The second problem with OS/2 was the GUI's single-threaded model....
dunno how high they were, but the Taliban couldn't reach B52s.
He'll need a hotter furnace (Curie temperature for iron is over 700C)...
IBM was paying 27-year-old programmers just a little less than that in 1989...
Similarly, we can envision a calamity that wipes out trees (and paper), thereby making the dollar bill worth more than $1 (presumably in coin). We can also envision the price of gold collapsing, so that the value of the gold in a $50 Eagle is less than 50 $1 bills. In short, your proposed candidate fails the test, for the same reasons you find the $50 gold piece absurd.