And every ISP in the country will offer "NO advertisement email" within 2 weeks.
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Mighty Amazon
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· Score: 4, Informative
Naw, that isn't how corporations work.
You see as a C-Corporation, profit is pretty much the money you haven't spent on something. When you make profit, you have to give a portion of it, say 20% of it, to the government, which you never get back.
Instead, you can re-invest it into the company, and you have a bigger company that can do bigger things in the future. If you "invest" it into a company jet, you do so with company money and viola, it can be purchased at effectively 25% less (as you didn't have to pay income tax on that profit). And salaries of employeess of the company, such as that of bezos himself, are an expense and do not come out of the profits of a corperation.
Sure the company owns the plane, but you CONTROL the plane, and get all the benefits out of it.
Imagine monopoly, the board game, with the same rules as usual, but every time you hit go you write down how much money you have. If you have more money this time than the last time, you give %20 of the difference to the bank.
See how in that situation, you'd do well to spend that money on things such as improvements on your properties, and buying new properties, rather than to turn a profit?
I recommend the book, Inc and Grow Rich, to learn more about the workings of C-Corperations from a working man's perspective.
Netflix already has a couple account options: 1. $20 a month for 3 movies out at a time, unlimited rentals
2. $30 a month for 5 movies out at a time, unlimited rentals
3. $40 a month for 8 movies at a time, unlimited rentals
4. $14 a month for 4 rentals a month
So if you want extra special "I always get the movies first on my list" account, get 2 $20 a month accounts and let one lie fallow (i.e. don't use it) every other month. You'll always get the exact movies you want, and you'll also be able to keep 6 out at a time. Depending on how many you watch in a month, you possibly could get by with two $14 a month accounts.
tumbler locks only have 10 height levels at most
Wrong. They have many, many possible height levels. They are completely analog devices. Any locksmith should be able to make pins that are whatever height he wants, completely analog. Its not just like they have a box of pins, only available in 10 different lengths.
I'm not sure what the number is, but there definitly is a finite number of heights in tumbler locks. The different heights are made with several different pins that come in a kit. I think that there is more like 15-18 pin heights for most brands.
This allows for multiple locks to have the same key without a LOT of work. You file keys today, not pins.
I would say the original poster is right, but not for the reasons he necessarily gives.
You should correct clients who pay you alot, because the very fact that they pay you like that means there is probably something you know they don't, and that the company wants to know. This makes it so they really DO listen to you, rather than get pissed at you for correcting them.
They also say he shared some files...but as that is not a majority of the case, I believe he may be able to have the case wholesale dismissed if the allegations of contributory infringement (the actual majority) are shown to be innacurate and untrue
IIRC, word refers to the standard size piece of information on the processor. So 8086 are 16 bit chips and have a 16 bit word, and pentiums are a 32 bit chip and have a 32 bit word.
I remember hearing an anecdote(sp?) in a smalltalk class about a guy who wrote the onboard control software for a missle using smalltalk (another language with a VM). To make sure the VM wouldn't need to garbage collect, he loaded it with 30GB of memory. The idea is, it would hit the target before it needed to garbage collect.
It should also be pointed out that "to google" was already an (informal) verb, meaning "to look" (where did you think the name came from?). Google may quibble over semantics, in that it's mostly being used in a different context these days, but they certainly can't remove it from from the dictionary.
I think you mean ogle...or at least they did when they said it...
It doesn't really matter that much. I can only see micropayments be used to sell things of an IPish nature(songs, software, ringtones, etc). That means that as long as you are really selling enough to be solvent at all, your variance will be low enough that you can survive. The only cost per Item to you is bandwidth.
The outside does not spin faster. It spins at the exact same speed as the inside. The outside moves faster, therefore it is the limiting factor on the amount of information that can move past the laser.
Nasa uses 2/386's because radiation effects these chips wider transistor paths MUCH less than the current 2.4 GHZ models. There are several orders of magnitudes difference in the size of those internal chip traces. The smaller the path, the more solar radiation affects it.
Who see's X's not in profession Y's as np??
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Girls not Going into CS
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I don't see why women NEED to be in CS jobs. I know it makes it a little harder to get a date, but other than that, who cares if women as a group go into CS? I don't hear the fashion industry decrying the lack of men? Or the press?
As for anyone, if you'd like the flexability to go into any carrer, you need to be able to both handle sci/math issues and empathic/literatry fields. If many women don't strive to get the math/sci backgroud, then they won't have as much flexability. I see many men who do the exact opposite in shorting themselves in the empathy/literary vein. They couldn't write a understandable document to save their life, and they can't empathize what their co-workers are feeling.
I personally will try to get all my children to excel in BOTH areas. But if they don't I'll point out what flexability that they are loosing and be done with it.
The answers on the standardized tests say they are more qualified. And there are no where near enough American students of quality applying. You should see some of the retards who get in under the CURRENT guidelines.
Re:You're both wrong
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Uncle Tungsten
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· Score: 3, Funny
Dick Measuring contests about what we studied in college are the foundation of knowledge. Without them, we wouldn't feel inclined to study philosophy, chemistry, or physics, because we could get laid both being ugly AND ignorant.
Why the hell would we want to let in an american student when there is a MUCH more highly qualified foriegn student who can take the spot and will more often than not BECOME an american after they get their degree? That is the case. American college's already have tougher requirements for out of state and out of country students. If you turn down TOP students all the time, you are making your institution less capable and prestigous. We DO take into account that they aren't "natives" but that's enough. Any more and the quality of education goes down.
Keep it wet, and it doesn't go boom.:) I had a rackful of this stuff drying in the back of a chemistry class when I was a chem aid. Needless to say, I heard it down the hall (in english class) when the next period's chem aid set it off when moving the rack (which to my credit was marked "Contact explosive, do not touch"
C will be useful ten years from now still. All major operating systems are written in it, near all embedded applications use C if they can handle the overhead. These are the two most ubiquitous applications of programming. Everyone with a computer owns an OS and everyone with any electronics supports TONS of C programmers. It has few fatal design defects, and supports many programming styles.
I don't think that you should teach it to kids though. I think that kids should be taught math well enough that they know how to think in the manner required to program, then pick programming up in high school or college.
Less than 30% of the people who "know" how to program when they get to college do well in introductory classes when they get there. I was a teaching assistant for 2 years, and you always would notice the people learned in 3rd grade. There are exceptions, but they'd miss the point of half the things that were taught in class.
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And every ISP in the country will offer "NO advertisement email" within 2 weeks.
Naw, that isn't how corporations work.
You see as a C-Corporation, profit is pretty much the money you haven't spent on something. When you make profit, you have to give a portion of it, say 20% of it, to the government, which you never get back.
Instead, you can re-invest it into the company, and you have a bigger company that can do bigger things in the future. If you "invest" it into a company jet, you do so with company money and viola, it can be purchased at effectively 25% less (as you didn't have to pay income tax on that profit). And salaries of employeess of the company, such as that of bezos himself, are an expense and do not come out of the profits of a corperation.
Sure the company owns the plane, but you CONTROL the plane, and get all the benefits out of it.
Imagine monopoly, the board game, with the same rules as usual, but every time you hit go you write down how much money you have. If you have more money this time than the last time, you give %20 of the difference to the bank.
See how in that situation, you'd do well to spend that money on things such as improvements on your properties, and buying new properties, rather than to turn a profit?
I recommend the book, Inc and Grow Rich, to learn more about the workings of C-Corperations from a working man's perspective.
I'd prefer challenge response to that.
When it's non-technical and hits slashdot.
Netflix already has a couple account options:
h p/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=141
1. $20 a month for 3 movies out at a time, unlimited rentals
2. $30 a month for 5 movies out at a time, unlimited rentals
3. $40 a month for 8 movies at a time, unlimited rentals
4. $14 a month for 4 rentals a month
So if you want extra special "I always get the movies first on my list" account, get 2 $20 a month accounts and let one lie fallow (i.e. don't use it) every other month. You'll always get the exact movies you want, and you'll also be able to keep 6 out at a time. Depending on how many you watch in a month, you possibly could get by with two $14 a month accounts.
source: http://netflix.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/netflix.cfg/p
The thing with that is, he doesn't make any products...that's where IBM bites you...they have patents on other things you make
Naw. If you're intoxicated or have car keys...that cna happen though
tumbler locks only have 10 height levels at most Wrong. They have many, many possible height levels. They are completely analog devices. Any locksmith should be able to make pins that are whatever height he wants, completely analog. Its not just like they have a box of pins, only available in 10 different lengths. I'm not sure what the number is, but there definitly is a finite number of heights in tumbler locks. The different heights are made with several different pins that come in a kit. I think that there is more like 15-18 pin heights for most brands. This allows for multiple locks to have the same key without a LOT of work. You file keys today, not pins.
I would say the original poster is right, but not for the reasons he necessarily gives. You should correct clients who pay you alot, because the very fact that they pay you like that means there is probably something you know they don't, and that the company wants to know. This makes it so they really DO listen to you, rather than get pissed at you for correcting them.
They also say he shared some files...but as that is not a majority of the case, I believe he may be able to have the case wholesale dismissed if the allegations of contributory infringement (the actual majority) are shown to be innacurate and untrue
IIRC, word refers to the standard size piece of information on the processor. So 8086 are 16 bit chips and have a 16 bit word, and pentiums are a 32 bit chip and have a 32 bit word.
3A is what most government contracts do anyhow.
The military is one entity. It will not be distributing secret binaries to anyone, thus will not need to distribute secret code.
I remember hearing an anecdote(sp?) in a smalltalk class about a guy who wrote the onboard control software for a missle using smalltalk (another language with a VM). To make sure the VM wouldn't need to garbage collect, he loaded it with 30GB of memory. The idea is, it would hit the target before it needed to garbage collect.
It should also be pointed out that "to google" was already an (informal) verb, meaning "to look" (where did you think the name came from?). Google may quibble over semantics, in that it's mostly being used in a different context these days, but they certainly can't remove it from from the dictionary.
I think you mean ogle...or at least they did when they said it...
It doesn't really matter that much. I can only see micropayments be used to sell things of an IPish nature(songs, software, ringtones, etc). That means that as long as you are really selling enough to be solvent at all, your variance will be low enough that you can survive. The only cost per Item to you is bandwidth.
The outside does not spin faster. It spins at the exact same speed as the inside. The outside moves faster, therefore it is the limiting factor on the amount of information that can move past the laser.
Nasa uses 2/386's because radiation effects these chips wider transistor paths MUCH less than the current 2.4 GHZ models. There are several orders of magnitudes difference in the size of those internal chip traces. The smaller the path, the more solar radiation affects it.
I don't see why women NEED to be in CS jobs. I know it makes it a little harder to get a date, but other than that, who cares if women as a group go into CS? I don't hear the fashion industry decrying the lack of men? Or the press?
As for anyone, if you'd like the flexability to go into any carrer, you need to be able to both handle sci/math issues and empathic/literatry fields. If many women don't strive to get the math/sci backgroud, then they won't have as much flexability. I see many men who do the exact opposite in shorting themselves in the empathy/literary vein. They couldn't write a understandable document to save their life, and they can't empathize what their co-workers are feeling.
I personally will try to get all my children to excel in BOTH areas. But if they don't I'll point out what flexability that they are loosing and be done with it.
The answers on the standardized tests say they are more qualified. And there are no where near enough American students of quality applying. You should see some of the retards who get in under the CURRENT guidelines.
Dick Measuring contests about what we studied in college are the foundation of knowledge. Without them, we wouldn't feel inclined to study philosophy, chemistry, or physics, because we could get laid both being ugly AND ignorant.
No, but that arguement, the GOVERNMENT shouldn't regulate games...just like they don't have ANY control in the movie forum.
Why the hell would we want to let in an american student when there is a MUCH more highly qualified foriegn student who can take the spot and will more often than not BECOME an american after they get their degree? That is the case. American college's already have tougher requirements for out of state and out of country students. If you turn down TOP students all the time, you are making your institution less capable and prestigous. We DO take into account that they aren't "natives" but that's enough. Any more and the quality of education goes down.
Keep it wet, and it doesn't go boom. :) I had a rackful of this stuff drying in the back of a chemistry class when I was a chem aid. Needless to say, I heard it down the hall (in english class) when the next period's chem aid set it off when moving the rack (which to my credit was marked "Contact explosive, do not touch"
C will be useful ten years from now still. All major operating systems are written in it, near all embedded applications use C if they can handle the overhead. These are the two most ubiquitous applications of programming. Everyone with a computer owns an OS and everyone with any electronics supports TONS of C programmers. It has few fatal design defects, and supports many programming styles.
I don't think that you should teach it to kids though. I think that kids should be taught math well enough that they know how to think in the manner required to program, then pick programming up in high school or college.
Less than 30% of the people who "know" how to program when they get to college do well in introductory classes when they get there. I was a teaching assistant for 2 years, and you always would notice the people learned in 3rd grade. There are exceptions, but they'd miss the point of half the things that were taught in class.