And if you've ever been in one of their stores, you would notice that the guns are in the sporting good sections and are primarily for hunting - a tool that most fish & wildlife angencies use to control animal populations as well as raising money for habitat conservation. You act as if they were selling Uzis and street sweeper shotguns. I would rather have them sell guns than the garbage that is labeled as music.
Again, how is this any different than a particular item with a UPC barcode being scanned and paid for with a credit/debit card? They could possibly tell when you left the store. Big deal. That's normal. Or do you camp out inside Wal-Marts?
If they ever get to low level tagging of individual items, the easiest way to solve the privacy issue is to just put them on the packaging.
Besides, they wouldn't want to have people walking in the store with RFIDs after the purchase. It could be a product that they don't carry and may cause confusion. This is all for shipping and inventory. They want to be able to get an accurate count of what is inside the store, what's been sold, and if any are being shoplifted. They have way too much information to wade through now, why would they want to give themselves an even bigger headache?
Companies monitor their trucks by GPS in order to locate them when they are hijacked and stolen. If those RFID tags have enough power to communicate with a sat, I wouldn't want them in consumer products either. Not for privacy reasons, but for the RF power needed for them to work. One placed in a pair of boxers would certainly damage the family jewels.
However, since they can only communicate with a device a few feet away, I'm not that worried.
Where did I say that he did not win the popular vote? He won the popular vote, but never got the majority of it. How difficult is it to visualize 50% > Clinton's percentage > GOP candidate's percentage > 3rd party candidates' percentage?
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No, I got the point. Maybe you meant something else? The question was:
Name one president who has won by a plurality who hasn't won by a majority.
Clinton never broke 50% of the popular vote, so he never won by a majority. He had more votes than his nearest competitor, which satisfies the condition of a plurality and meets the criteria specified. But like you said, popular vote doesn't matter since winning the electoral college is what the election is about.
But the drivers in the UK have very high fuel prices compared to the US (thanks to ~75% of the cost being tax) and that helps create a market for those cars (which aren't sold here - the Sentra is the entry level Nissan and it gets 28/35mpg (city/highway)). Finding a used car with a manual transmission in the US is a pain if you don't want a sports car. If one wants a diesel, it will probably be a European one. The US automakers screwed up their diesel motors for cars and dropped them (the Olds V-6 got great mileage in a Ciera, but was very noisy).
In Sam's Club a few months ago, I saw a book that contained nothing but magazine car ads from the 70s. While flipping through it, I noticed an ad for a Datsun that claimed it got 40+mpg. I thought that it's sad that unless it's a hybrid, I don't think Nissan makes anything that gets better than that. Everything I see is much bigger than they used to be and only has fuel economy in the mid 30s.
Based on the vehicles I see most of the time, I would say they care more about "that thing's got a hemi/v10/whatever" than if it gets 50mpg. If they got 1/2 of that, it must be when they are going downhill and have a tail wind.
I rarely watch TV anymore. The only thing my TV set is used for is an occasional DVD or VHS movie and if I remember, The Simpsons and King of the Hill on Sunday right. I forget more often than I remember, so it's possible that I go for a few weeks without turning it on.
I would have a problem if it was a week without the Internet.:)
a 20 year old car with a blown cyl (yes.. people drive with burnt out cyls all the time) and no suspension travel left is less likely to travel safely at 65mph....
Who needs RFID when it's clear that you're already spying on me? BTW, the POS car runs just fine at 80mph. It's at 100+ when things get interesting.
The powerplants already heat water to make steam to run the turbines. Why not make a powerplant that can use salt water and then condense the steam to provide regular water for everyone else. Kill two birds with one stone.
My Emacs directory will follow me from job to job. It's a 1.5M gzipped tarball of lisp code and settings that's evolved over 14 years and I'm not parting with it.
It's probably not meant for people who really want to do scuba diving. Cruise ships and resorts will be the biggest customers so retired people can take underwater tours that will take them to maybe 3-4 feet under.
By your own reasoning, what is the incentive for the in-house people to learn new stuff when upper management has the mindset that any new stuff needs to be outsourced because the in-house people only know 'the old stuff'?
The biggest reason to let in-house people do it: they are intimately aware of the business logic that needs to be implemented. They have either implemented it in the old system, wrote the documentation, or know the people that did. They know the pitfalls and the gotchas. If they can implement it in 1960s era software, they should be able to do it with current technology. All that they may be missing is training and from the looks of it, $200million has been wasted already and that would have been one hell of a training budget. But, with the 'bring in the superstars' mentality, resentment and the glee in provided by sandbagging the buzzword-compliant folks must certainly run rampant.
I worked at a Federal science facility for a while and I can certainly say that most of the programmers there were always trying to learn new stuff and usually ended up having to fix or re-implement projects that outside contractors created that didn't really work when it was delivered. Or even better, the contractor's solution was late, so an interim system gets put together until the 'real system' is delivered and ends up being a more robust system than what's delivered. Even my experience in the private sector, in-house developers usually build better systems than those by outside contractors & consultants (esp the Blue ones).
Also, the best incentive for building a good system right the first time: having to do future maintenance on it and being on-call nights and weekends when something goes wrong. After it's delivered and they've been paid, contractors don't care if it's a bitch to maintain or is unstable, unless they think the CIO is gullible enough to let them work on it again.
Nope. The New Deal & SSI actually prolonged the Depression because of the new burdens it put on employers. What really pulled the US out the Depression was WW2, not any of FDR's social programs.
The GI Bill helped out a lot, but you also have to take in consideration that much of the post-war boom was also driven by the demand created because they couldn't buy many items due to the rationing during the war.
And guess what? The percentage spent was right in line with the rest of the G8 nations before Meidcare/Medicaid was passed. After the Feds decided to essentially give the medical industry reams of signed blank checks, the costs have gone up. It's not surprising. Given a "free" system, people will abuse it. The same goes for insurance plans that mask the real costs from the customers. Get rid of everything but catatrophic insurance policies and people will begin to use some common sense when it comes to their health. There was an article published over the weekend about doctors who do not accept insurance plans: cash, check, or plastic only, just like they used to before insurance plans covering even minor items became widespread. Not only do they make more because they don't have to hire someone to process & fill out the forms and wait weeks/months for the companies to pay them back, but the patients get better care because the doc can spend more time with them.
How much do you think your car would cost if the Govt decided to pay for "free" new cars for retirees every 2-3 years?
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And if you've ever been in one of their stores, you would notice that the guns are in the sporting good sections and are primarily for hunting - a tool that most fish & wildlife angencies use to control animal populations as well as raising money for habitat conservation. You act as if they were selling Uzis and street sweeper shotguns. I would rather have them sell guns than the garbage that is labeled as music.
Again, how is this any different than a particular item with a UPC barcode being scanned and paid for with a credit/debit card? They could possibly tell when you left the store. Big deal. That's normal. Or do you camp out inside Wal-Marts?
If they ever get to low level tagging of individual items, the easiest way to solve the privacy issue is to just put them on the packaging.
Besides, they wouldn't want to have people walking in the store with RFIDs after the purchase. It could be a product that they don't carry and may cause confusion. This is all for shipping and inventory. They want to be able to get an accurate count of what is inside the store, what's been sold, and if any are being shoplifted. They have way too much information to wade through now, why would they want to give themselves an even bigger headache?
Companies monitor their trucks by GPS in order to locate them when they are hijacked and stolen. If those RFID tags have enough power to communicate with a sat, I wouldn't want them in consumer products either. Not for privacy reasons, but for the RF power needed for them to work. One placed in a pair of boxers would certainly damage the family jewels.
However, since they can only communicate with a device a few feet away, I'm not that worried.
In this picture which one do you think is the compsci geek and which one is in league with the devil (aka the Marketing guy)?
I contact the musician prior to the show and get their permission. Then, I let the venue know that they have approved it. Otherwise, I don't go.
Where did I say that he did not win the popular vote? He won the popular vote, but never got the majority of it. How difficult is it to visualize 50% > Clinton's percentage > GOP candidate's percentage > 3rd party candidates' percentage?
I believe JOE is Alan Cox's editor of choice too.
No, I got the point. Maybe you meant something else? The question was:
Name one president who has won by a plurality who hasn't won by a majority.
Clinton never broke 50% of the popular vote, so he never won by a majority. He had more votes than his nearest competitor, which satisfies the condition of a plurality and meets the criteria specified. But like you said, popular vote doesn't matter since winning the electoral college is what the election is about.
In the popular vote? That's easy: both of Clinton's terms.
Maybe they're tightwads using the 'free' dialup services (netzero, rotating aol accounts, etc)?
But the drivers in the UK have very high fuel prices compared to the US (thanks to ~75% of the cost being tax) and that helps create a market for those cars (which aren't sold here - the Sentra is the entry level Nissan and it gets 28/35mpg (city/highway)). Finding a used car with a manual transmission in the US is a pain if you don't want a sports car. If one wants a diesel, it will probably be a European one. The US automakers screwed up their diesel motors for cars and dropped them (the Olds V-6 got great mileage in a Ciera, but was very noisy).
In Sam's Club a few months ago, I saw a book that contained nothing but magazine car ads from the 70s. While flipping through it, I noticed an ad for a Datsun that claimed it got 40+mpg. I thought that it's sad that unless it's a hybrid, I don't think Nissan makes anything that gets better than that. Everything I see is much bigger than they used to be and only has fuel economy in the mid 30s.
That's why they buy the specs, service bulletins, repair information, etc from this company.
Based on the vehicles I see most of the time, I would say they care more about "that thing's got a hemi/v10/whatever" than if it gets 50mpg. If they got 1/2 of that, it must be when they are going downhill and have a tail wind.
Big deal.
I rarely watch TV anymore. The only thing my TV set is used for is an occasional DVD or VHS movie and if I remember, The Simpsons and King of the Hill on Sunday right. I forget more often than I remember, so it's possible that I go for a few weeks without turning it on.
I would have a problem if it was a week without the Internet. :)
a 20 year old car with a blown cyl (yes.. people drive with burnt out cyls all the time) and no suspension travel left is less likely to travel safely at 65mph....
Who needs RFID when it's clear that you're already spying on me? BTW, the POS car runs just fine at 80mph. It's at 100+ when things get interesting.
The powerplants already heat water to make steam to run the turbines. Why not make a powerplant that can use salt water and then condense the steam to provide regular water for everyone else. Kill two birds with one stone.
My Emacs directory will follow me from job to job. It's a 1.5M gzipped tarball of lisp code and settings that's evolved over 14 years and I'm not parting with it.
It's probably not meant for people who really want to do scuba diving. Cruise ships and resorts will be the biggest customers so retired people can take underwater tours that will take them to maybe 3-4 feet under.
I doesn't count if they are considered to be on the same campus or that short distance isn't several miles/km. :)
By your own reasoning, what is the incentive for the in-house people to learn new stuff when upper management has the mindset that any new stuff needs to be outsourced because the in-house people only know 'the old stuff'?
The biggest reason to let in-house people do it: they are intimately aware of the business logic that needs to be implemented. They have either implemented it in the old system, wrote the documentation, or know the people that did. They know the pitfalls and the gotchas. If they can implement it in 1960s era software, they should be able to do it with current technology. All that they may be missing is training and from the looks of it, $200million has been wasted already and that would have been one hell of a training budget. But, with the 'bring in the superstars' mentality, resentment and the glee in provided by sandbagging the buzzword-compliant folks must certainly run rampant.
I worked at a Federal science facility for a while and I can certainly say that most of the programmers there were always trying to learn new stuff and usually ended up having to fix or re-implement projects that outside contractors created that didn't really work when it was delivered. Or even better, the contractor's solution was late, so an interim system gets put together until the 'real system' is delivered and ends up being a more robust system than what's delivered. Even my experience in the private sector, in-house developers usually build better systems than those by outside contractors & consultants (esp the Blue ones).
Also, the best incentive for building a good system right the first time: having to do future maintenance on it and being on-call nights and weekends when something goes wrong. After it's delivered and they've been paid, contractors don't care if it's a bitch to maintain or is unstable, unless they think the CIO is gullible enough to let them work on it again.
Nope. The New Deal & SSI actually prolonged the Depression because of the new burdens it put on employers. What really pulled the US out the Depression was WW2, not any of FDR's social programs.
The GI Bill helped out a lot, but you also have to take in consideration that much of the post-war boom was also driven by the demand created because they couldn't buy many items due to the rationing during the war.
And guess what? The percentage spent was right in line with the rest of the G8 nations before Meidcare/Medicaid was passed. After the Feds decided to essentially give the medical industry reams of signed blank checks, the costs have gone up. It's not surprising. Given a "free" system, people will abuse it. The same goes for insurance plans that mask the real costs from the customers. Get rid of everything but catatrophic insurance policies and people will begin to use some common sense when it comes to their health. There was an article published over the weekend about doctors who do not accept insurance plans: cash, check, or plastic only, just like they used to before insurance plans covering even minor items became widespread. Not only do they make more because they don't have to hire someone to process & fill out the forms and wait weeks/months for the companies to pay them back, but the patients get better care because the doc can spend more time with them.
How much do you think your car would cost if the Govt decided to pay for "free" new cars for retirees every 2-3 years?
Then it's obvious that you don't go to a real geek school.