And as you hint at, there's no global definition of a "licensed business" anyway.
Where I live, you don't need a license of any sort to run a home business, you are supposed to file this paper that asks how many cars you expect to attract (for parking purposes), and if you'll put up a sign (to protect against obnoxious signage). You have to get it stamped by the building inspector. That's it.
I file schedule C for my contract work federally, but I don't have an EIN because I don't have employees and operate under my own name. Is that a "licensed business"?
Heh, one time I saw it, it was Microsoft's fault. Apparently the TA who posted the final grades for a class I took (a VB class, ironically), used excel to export columns to a frontpage HTML page. He disabled the columns with social security, address, phone, etc, but they were still in the HTML source, if you opened the page in IE you couldn't see them, but in Opera, I could see the excess data running out the edge of the table (the HTML was very invalid).
This one goes out to all those who say MS never really hurt anyone.
I think it is you that needs to think outside the square. Something like a camcorder could easily use these microdrives. Or how about a PVR that you could easily carry to someone else's house to watch movies.
PDAs generally are designed to work within the confines of flash RAM, but a microdrive PDA might have all kinds of uses no one has thought of.
My wife, who is pretty savvy, she's a computer tech, told me that last night Spybot found several spywares on her computer. She said she thinks they came from Ameritrade, but I think it must have been an unscrupulous affiliate (spammer type). She had immediately noticed her computer acting funny after she went to the site
It was an offer for a free Palm Tungsten C with a new $10,000 deposit in an Ameritrade account. She didn't get it via spam either.
She keeps up on IE patches, and she knows better to click "yes" to trust some site to execute active X...
There must be some unpatched bug in IE that's letting this shit get installed.
As for her running Mozilla... that's a lost cause. I don't use Windows, but I can't convince her to switch.
I'm very much pro-technology. In fact I hope it will be what saves humanity; be it by deflecting an asteroid, mastering fusion for unlimited energy, strip-mining the Moon, or whatever the flavour of the month is.
But electronic money scares me. Money is the only way we can keep track of value in our society. In the current system, every dollar is a permanent, tangible, undisputable (unless some kind of fire is involved, anyway) record. Electronic money leaves nothing that can be held or physically counted, just data on a hard-drive somewhere. Even with the most rigorous security, encryption and protocals, I'll never feel confident that the system is entirely honest and invincible.
Of course, paper money can be 'lost' or 'miscounted'. But the altering of an electronic bank account could potentially leave no evidence: the only things that will been destroyed or altered never existed in the first place.
It's funny, but I recently played through VC again, and at least in the PC version, the "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS" line is only in subtitles, not actually spoken by anyone that I could hear.
Why tax the general population at all? You get your bill from the city, and it has a charge for infrastructure on it, in addition to charges from any providers you used.
Your point is taken, but groceries make more on selling shelf space than on selling the product, at least with name brand stuff where the markup is as low as 1-2%.
With store brand stuff, they make more money from selling the stuff, but usually they put it in less desirable shelf space. It all balances out.
Darwinism implies a "natural" selection. What's natural about workers that refuse to change what they do, to move with the times, to do things in more efficient ways?
I've watched a similar situation play out in my home town, we lost one of our largest employers due to unions, and their constant petty strikes.
In the company I work for, some divisions have union labor and some (like the one I work at) don't. We're constantly told, "well, we'd love to do (thing that would make workflow more efficient), but the union won't let us."
There are unnecessary convolutions in our workflow just to accommodate the union... Lot of the "not my job" attitudes going around. No one wants to take responsibility for a quality product, everyone just wants to sit in their little niche, do their one little piece of the job, and nothing more.
Anyway, our division, the non-union one, was the only one to show a significant profit last year. I attribute that directly to the freedom we had in streamlining workflows to reduce unnecessary steps.
It sort of seems to me like saying "unmanned exploration is really successful, but look at how many people we killed with stupid manned exploration, that could have easily been done unmanned".
You make it sound like the current would flow forever were it not for the internal resistance.
What causes the voltages to even out isn't the internal resistance, it's the stronger battery discharging and charging the weaker one. The resistances just keep the current from being too huge and causing one of the batteries to explode or the wires to melt.
Obviously charging a non-rechargable battery is a bad idea, so as you said, it's important to use batteries that are at the same state of charge when you parallel non-rechargables.
Both you are the other poster seem to have forgotten, we are talking about a company that is on financially shaky ground here.
Such a company might be able to slowly replace people at higher wages, but such a company almost surely can't survive an entire shutdown caused by a strike.
And I've heard that what you say is exactly the case. Very very few full time adult employees in the US are making minimum wage, it's almost all temporary/part time jobs and teenagers.
The only thing raising minimum wages does is get a few teenagers some extra cash, at the cost of there being less jobs for them to get.
There's something about that argument that doesn't pass the smell test.
If the employer was bad, then the employees should just quit. At least then the company, if it truely was paying below market wages, will have to raise wages to hire new people, and has a chance of becoming a viable, good, employer.
To sum up: No union: people quit over a period of time, people lose jobs, company still has a chance to make amends. Union: People strike, people lose jobs, company destroyed.
You don't need 10x samples for most things. You need around 5x to catch most transient events. You only need 2x to make a waveform per Nyquist.
Most digital scopes do a sort of interpolation when the frequency is above Nyquist, they will sample the signal for several periods and reconstruct what the waveform looks like, this works with any repeating signal, but when you use this you can't catch transient events, for that you do need a sampling rate several times the base frequency.
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And as you hint at, there's no global definition of a "licensed business" anyway.
Where I live, you don't need a license of any sort to run a home business, you are supposed to file this paper that asks how many cars you expect to attract (for parking purposes), and if you'll put up a sign (to protect against obnoxious signage). You have to get it stamped by the building inspector. That's it.
I file schedule C for my contract work federally, but I don't have an EIN because I don't have employees and operate under my own name. Is that a "licensed business"?
Heh, one time I saw it, it was Microsoft's fault. Apparently the TA who posted the final grades for a class I took (a VB class, ironically), used excel to export columns to a frontpage HTML page. He disabled the columns with social security, address, phone, etc, but they were still in the HTML source, if you opened the page in IE you couldn't see them, but in Opera, I could see the excess data running out the edge of the table (the HTML was very invalid).
This one goes out to all those who say MS never really hurt anyone.
I think it is you that needs to think outside the square. Something like a camcorder could easily use these microdrives. Or how about a PVR that you could easily carry to someone else's house to watch movies.
PDAs generally are designed to work within the confines of flash RAM, but a microdrive PDA might have all kinds of uses no one has thought of.
almost every computer
Almost every Windows computer, that has a user that uses IE.
Without either of those two, it's much much harder to get Spyware.
My wife, who is pretty savvy, she's a computer tech, told me that last night Spybot found several spywares on her computer. She said she thinks they came from Ameritrade, but I think it must have been an unscrupulous affiliate (spammer type). She had immediately noticed her computer acting funny after she went to the site
It was an offer for a free Palm Tungsten C with a new $10,000 deposit in an Ameritrade account. She didn't get it via spam either.
She keeps up on IE patches, and she knows better to click "yes" to trust some site to execute active X...
There must be some unpatched bug in IE that's letting this shit get installed.
As for her running Mozilla... that's a lost cause. I don't use Windows, but I can't convince her to switch.
I'm very much pro-technology. In fact I hope it will be what saves humanity; be it by deflecting an asteroid, mastering fusion for unlimited energy, strip-mining the Moon, or whatever the flavour of the month is.
But electronic money scares me. Money is the only way we can keep track of value in our society. In the current system, every dollar is a permanent, tangible, undisputable (unless some kind of fire is involved, anyway) record. Electronic money leaves nothing that can be held or physically counted, just data on a hard-drive somewhere. Even with the most rigorous security, encryption and protocals, I'll never feel confident that the system is entirely honest and invincible.
Of course, paper money can be 'lost' or 'miscounted'. But the altering of an electronic bank account could potentially leave no evidence: the only things that will been destroyed or altered never existed in the first place.
If you try to shoehorn all that useless bureaucracy into OSS development, you'll quickly see why it doesn't work that way.
It's funny, but I recently played through VC again, and at least in the PC version, the "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS" line is only in subtitles, not actually spoken by anyone that I could hear.
Why tax the general population at all? You get your bill from the city, and it has a charge for infrastructure on it, in addition to charges from any providers you used.
Your point is taken, but groceries make more on selling shelf space than on selling the product, at least with name brand stuff where the markup is as low as 1-2%.
With store brand stuff, they make more money from selling the stuff, but usually they put it in less desirable shelf space. It all balances out.
I thought the Fab 5 were Michigan U basketball players fron the early '90s. Chris Webber, Juann Howard, et al.
Nah, those guys were fags.
Maybe discussion with people at Harvard actually sunk in, and he realized his folly?
Why are you flaming me? I didn't take a position in this, I just said what message it might send.
I thought that was HPAVC.
but why did you, Mr McCool, waste your time posting that flame?
:)
I bet Rob McCool, the httpd guy, takes offense at that.
Darwinism implies a "natural" selection. What's natural about workers that refuse to change what they do, to move with the times, to do things in more efficient ways?
I've watched a similar situation play out in my home town, we lost one of our largest employers due to unions, and their constant petty strikes.
In the company I work for, some divisions have union labor and some (like the one I work at) don't. We're constantly told, "well, we'd love to do (thing that would make workflow more efficient), but the union won't let us."
There are unnecessary convolutions in our workflow just to accommodate the union... Lot of the "not my job" attitudes going around. No one wants to take responsibility for a quality product, everyone just wants to sit in their little niche, do their one little piece of the job, and nothing more.
Anyway, our division, the non-union one, was the only one to show a significant profit last year. I attribute that directly to the freedom we had in streamlining workflows to reduce unnecessary steps.
Are you sure it would send the right message?
It sort of seems to me like saying "unmanned exploration is really successful, but look at how many people we killed with stupid manned exploration, that could have easily been done unmanned".
You make it sound like the current would flow forever were it not for the internal resistance.
What causes the voltages to even out isn't the internal resistance, it's the stronger battery discharging and charging the weaker one. The resistances just keep the current from being too huge and causing one of the batteries to explode or the wires to melt.
Obviously charging a non-rechargable battery is a bad idea, so as you said, it's important to use batteries that are at the same state of charge when you parallel non-rechargables.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Both you are the other poster seem to have forgotten, we are talking about a company that is on financially shaky ground here.
Such a company might be able to slowly replace people at higher wages, but such a company almost surely can't survive an entire shutdown caused by a strike.
And I've heard that what you say is exactly the case. Very very few full time adult employees in the US are making minimum wage, it's almost all temporary/part time jobs and teenagers.
The only thing raising minimum wages does is get a few teenagers some extra cash, at the cost of there being less jobs for them to get.
There's something about that argument that doesn't pass the smell test.
If the employer was bad, then the employees should just quit. At least then the company, if it truely was paying below market wages, will have to raise wages to hire new people, and has a chance of becoming a viable, good, employer.
To sum up:
No union: people quit over a period of time, people lose jobs, company still has a chance to make amends.
Union: People strike, people lose jobs, company destroyed.
I see no advantage to the labor union here.
Don't worry, they automatically bill you for renewal whether you want it or not.
I learned that the hard way, but I agree with what they are doing so I let the charge stand.
Heh, well I was going to reply, but the AC summed it up nicely.
You don't need 10x samples for most things. You need around 5x to catch most transient events. You only need 2x to make a waveform per Nyquist.
Most digital scopes do a sort of interpolation when the frequency is above Nyquist, they will sample the signal for several periods and reconstruct what the waveform looks like, this works with any repeating signal, but when you use this you can't catch transient events, for that you do need a sampling rate several times the base frequency.