Why people think this is a bad thing, I don't understand.
It's bait and switch. Most companies I've seen jacked their rate up the year that they started their wellness program, and let you "stay" at the old rate if you did the new program.
Then of course, prices rise again - but now you are forever held to use their program and give them your data or else face retribution of them taking away your "discount". Certainly, my prices have risen more than the "discount" received from the wellness program.
How would maternity leave result in a lower salary? It's a break you take, before going back to your original position at full salary.
It's not the maternity leave by itself, but that there is a not tiny percentage of women take maternity leave, and don't end up re-entering the workforce until years later (or ever). It happens, plenty of times. This is dependent on the family being able to survive on their spouse's salary, of course.
Given that they have been out of the workforce for a number of years, when/if they do come back, they are generally going to be able to command less salary than if they had been continuously employed. It is difficult to calculate the opportunity cost of this, but it's there.
It can get even more complicated. Consider that there are always static costs - it takes a certain amount of money to just keep the lights on, the management staff paid and kept in offices, etc...
In short, if you cut a department's budget by 20%, without implementing additional measures to control FWA and/or otherwise reduce expenses, you should expect to see more than a 20% drop in performance.
To be fair, the 2010 budget was higher because of specific requests that year for the clean water state revolving fund, drinking water state revolving fund, and the great lakes restoration initiative). Comparing against that year is not apples-to-apples, since that wasn't supposed to set a new baseline.
On average, the budget has increased over the years. Picking those two as comparisons is great for a headline, though!
Not at all. Microsoft got caught flat footed when the Internet went public. Windows was never able to be used safely on anything but a trusted network, and after almost twenty years it still isn't. If it were, why do I have to install a third-party firewall and run third-party anti-malware software, that is, if I want to use it on the Internet?
Stop making excuses. All operating systems are vulnerable, to varying degrees, when connected to the global network. Only one OS, however, stands out as a shining example of how not to do it.
Every time Microsoft includes a new tool, they get sued for bundling or something.
Using WAP is phone dependent. My old phone had text messaging (just not SMS) that I could send directly from the phone.
Now I have an older Sanyo SCP-5300 which I have to log into a Sprint messaging website to send a message, really annoying. So I think it really all has to do with the phone manufacturer.
The Time Warner representatives I am speaking with in Austin say all their hardware is ready for IPv6, they just have no routing agreements with anybody else, so are sitting on the issue at the moment.
I'm working with cellular connected devices and several of the carriers are NAT'ing all their connections, makes it hell to establish a connection with a device that is trying to use little power by transmitting as little data as possible.
How is it such a liability? The lifetime subscription is not a lifetime warranty. I doubt they have to make a guide for each individual ReplayTV u nit. All they have to do is put up a server and feed it guide data. That or just give the open source guys the info they need on the guide (whom have already been working on a guide replacement) and be done with it.
A wine seller noticed half of his stock was just destroyed in a tragic accident, then instantly updates his inventory and doubles his price so the guy currently buying cases gets screwed. Are we supposed to think this is how businesses should be run? Any reasonable store owner I know of carries insurance for these circumstances, because they understand that screwing the customer will lead to less customers
Some businesses already do this, namely the gas companies. If they hear that the price of oil is going to go up, the prices on gasoline ALREADY in the ground awaiting someone to pump it into their gas tank instantly goes up. You would expect the next batch of gasoline to have the higher price, but its not so..
You would think then wow, that means when prices go down, you'll see it at the pump so much quicker, right? Nope, generally price drops take a long time to filter down to the individual stations. Great deal they have going on, you can jack the price up even though you already paid for it, and when the price goes down you don't have to follow suit immediately.
Yes, but how do you define a minimum frame rate? There are lot of things that define a minimum frame rate. You would need to define what steps are required in some game or a FPS checker to decide where exactly a minimal is.
You wouldn't expect a card to be able to maintain minimum 60 fps if you have 120 people shooting you with flare rockets generating all sorts of weird shadows, online, while you are watching. But that is not something that realistically happens now. But later on it could be, so this minimum would have to evolve over time.
Usually, the maximum framerates and average framerates at least tell you something about what you can expect the worst framerate to be. Not always, of course. I just don't think there is truly a better solution that everyone will accept, and is infallible (people will always look for a way to boost their scores).
It almost sounds like you say it is okay for the FBI to grab your stuff because you were intelligent enough to look at the site and see why it was hacked. AFAIK things can be confiscated if and only if they have clear evidence that it could have been used in the attack.
In this case there is only evidence that he looked at the site, which I'm willing to bet there are many of you that could duplicate the same effort. It comes down to whether or not we should have to worry about looking and learning about things and having to fear that the same knowledge can implicate you. Just because you know how to make a bomb doesn't mean you bombed a building. You may have driven by and noticed how they put it in the corner of the building such that the structure collapsed, but there is nothing wrong with that obviously.
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Why people think this is a bad thing, I don't understand.
It's bait and switch. Most companies I've seen jacked their rate up the year that they started their wellness program, and let you "stay" at the old rate if you did the new program.
Then of course, prices rise again - but now you are forever held to use their program and give them your data or else face retribution of them taking away your "discount". Certainly, my prices have risen more than the "discount" received from the wellness program.
How would maternity leave result in a lower salary? It's a break you take, before going back to your original position at full salary.
It's not the maternity leave by itself, but that there is a not tiny percentage of women take maternity leave, and don't end up re-entering the workforce until years later (or ever). It happens, plenty of times. This is dependent on the family being able to survive on their spouse's salary, of course.
Given that they have been out of the workforce for a number of years, when/if they do come back, they are generally going to be able to command less salary than if they had been continuously employed. It is difficult to calculate the opportunity cost of this, but it's there.
It can get even more complicated. Consider that there are always static costs - it takes a certain amount of money to just keep the lights on, the management staff paid and kept in offices, etc...
In short, if you cut a department's budget by 20%, without implementing additional measures to control FWA and/or otherwise reduce expenses, you should expect to see more than a 20% drop in performance.
To be fair, the 2010 budget was higher because of specific requests that year for the clean water state revolving fund, drinking water state revolving fund, and the great lakes restoration initiative). Comparing against that year is not apples-to-apples, since that wasn't supposed to set a new baseline.
On average, the budget has increased over the years. Picking those two as comparisons is great for a headline, though!
What a completely uncalled for comment.
Not at all. Microsoft got caught flat footed when the Internet went public. Windows was never able to be used safely on anything but a trusted network, and after almost twenty years it still isn't. If it were, why do I have to install a third-party firewall and run third-party anti-malware software, that is, if I want to use it on the Internet?
Stop making excuses. All operating systems are vulnerable, to varying degrees, when connected to the global network. Only one OS, however, stands out as a shining example of how not to do it.
Every time Microsoft includes a new tool, they get sued for bundling or something.
Using WAP is phone dependent. My old phone had text messaging (just not SMS) that I could send directly from the phone.
Now I have an older Sanyo SCP-5300 which I have to log into a Sprint messaging website to send a message, really annoying. So I think it really all has to do with the phone manufacturer.
The Time Warner representatives I am speaking with in Austin say all their hardware is ready for IPv6, they just have no routing agreements with anybody else, so are sitting on the issue at the moment.
I'm working with cellular connected devices and several of the carriers are NAT'ing all their connections, makes it hell to establish a connection with a device that is trying to use little power by transmitting as little data as possible.
How is it such a liability? The lifetime subscription is not a lifetime warranty. I doubt they have to make a guide for each individual ReplayTV u nit. All they have to do is put up a server and feed it guide data. That or just give the open source guys the info they need on the guide (whom have already been working on a guide replacement) and be done with it.
Some businesses already do this, namely the gas companies. If they hear that the price of oil is going to go up, the prices on gasoline ALREADY in the ground awaiting someone to pump it into their gas tank instantly goes up. You would expect the next batch of gasoline to have the higher price, but its not so..
You would think then wow, that means when prices go down, you'll see it at the pump so much quicker, right? Nope, generally price drops take a long time to filter down to the individual stations. Great deal they have going on, you can jack the price up even though you already paid for it, and when the price goes down you don't have to follow suit immediately.
Yes, but how do you define a minimum frame rate? There are lot of things that define a minimum frame rate. You would need to define what steps are required in some game or a FPS checker to decide where exactly a minimal is.
You wouldn't expect a card to be able to maintain minimum 60 fps if you have 120 people shooting you with flare rockets generating all sorts of weird shadows, online, while you are watching. But that is not something that realistically happens now. But later on it could be, so this minimum would have to evolve over time.
Usually, the maximum framerates and average framerates at least tell you something about what you can expect the worst framerate to be. Not always, of course. I just don't think there is truly a better solution that everyone will accept, and is infallible (people will always look for a way to boost their scores).
Hah, I had the same problem until I got a color monitor. I'm surprised anyone else had the same problem, blast from the past.
He may not have been an officer, but he reported the student nevertheless.
It almost sounds like you say it is okay for the FBI to grab your stuff because you were intelligent enough to look at the site and see why it was hacked. AFAIK things can be confiscated if and only if they have clear evidence that it could have been used in the attack.
In this case there is only evidence that he looked at the site, which I'm willing to bet there are many of you that could duplicate the same effort. It comes down to whether or not we should have to worry about looking and learning about things and having to fear that the same knowledge can implicate you. Just because you know how to make a bomb doesn't mean you bombed a building. You may have driven by and noticed how they put it in the corner of the building such that the structure collapsed, but there is nothing wrong with that obviously.