I had to design a database and write a program that pulled information from it for a class. I decided to use PGA Tour statistics (which are on their site) and decided that Vijay Singh is the best player considering that he makes more eagles, birdies, and so forth. Stat for stat, he's the best (on the tour).
At the local, middle-class Wal-Mart, poker table tops that sell for $50 now were selling for $15 during Christmas time. Wal-Mart's stores operate using JIT stocking and the demand was high. Instead of being stuck with thousands of these things they priced them with no markup (I assume). If people are coming in to buy the cheapest poker table top in town they are likely buying other things, where the highest selling items are competitively priced due to the inherent flexability in their system. At those times much of the advertising is word of mouth, and it gets around when people come back from the store.
The Internet shopping beast is another story. Prices reflect what people expect to pay worldwide. Anyone over the price limit will not generate business.
Wal-Mart doesn't have the same price as their on-line store. Target doesn't even carry the same products. Two examples; Matrix Reloaded was 15.95 online (walmart.com) the day it went for sale, yet at the local Wal-Mart was selling copies for 21.98 - Target sells Divx certified DVD players online but doesn't list the Philips DVP642 (classic) where it can be bought at the local store.
Your audience is different. I'd say instore shoppers are naive about instore products and prices. Because of the Internet you can buy things from anyone, anywhere. Your options are not the local department store shelves anymore. But I would say that online prices are due to the overall market's supply and demand pressure - where Wal-Mart stores will "rollback" prices throughout the day.
I say anyone paying too much for something on the internet is a fool. It is easy to establish what an item *should* cost by using a number of shopping search engines. I'll never buy another piece of electronics on a whim - you can have much more when you do your homework.
Beware: Wal-Mart's online price is never the same as the store price. Their in-store price is directly affected by sales where online is another story.
That is why selecting for traits is a hideous idea. Isn't it a form of genocide?
The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
We need those people who are a little unbalanced, but gifted. In the case of Autism, relationships are affected as "geekiness" raises. But as you point out the most outgoing among us aren't the greatest thinkers.
Tony Robbins didn't invent the lightbulb - but he has helped some people lifehack a raise or a new wife or whatever. It takes both sides for homo sapiens to progress. I'm sure we need captians of the football team to build our houses and geeks to design them. The point is that we need a diverse gene pool, we can't exclude what we see as defects.
Where will the space program go if we kill off the geeks?
Where will the sex and reproduction go if we kill off the jocks?
Section 8 of the Constitution does say the government should build physical infrastructure like Roads as well as communication infrastructure like Post Offices.
Okay, I'll give it to you on that metaphor - but you have to agree that cities must offer POP e-mail services to match your "Roads and Post Offices". If you offer the roads (IPoRF/WiFi) then offer the post office!
Hey, try Windows 2000. Much more stable than ME and uses memory so much better. Add another hard drive and use "Dynamic Disks" to stripe the Swap (and catalog (indexing service) and temp folders...) across drives and you'll have a flying machine.
Yesterday there was a small congressional hearing looking into nuclear weapons and their ability to be used by terrorists. During the hearing someone testified that you see declassified documents on the internet, but never anything comprehensive.
The congressmen, some, were asking their questions like they wanted the information to be out there and talked a lot of urban myths and so forth. They were almost let down when they found out the truth - it hasn't happened yet, "they" don't have a bomb.
Anyways, this reads like an encyclopedia article though...
The NAT you speak of is called NAT overloading. If you want multiple computers to receive connections from the outside you can use Static NAT.... most real routers handle this with no problems.
Also, let me add that the IPv4 blocks are a lot smaller today. We don't give out 4 million or ~250 addresses at a time, we give out a small block here and there (CIDR). Plus, since the rest of the world is going to move to IPv6 we can reclaim those billions of Asian addresses.
Welcome to the world of "Directory Services". They will help you locate resources on the network. As an administrator, enabling or restricting access to resources has now become a lot easier.
Sarcasm aside: It's all about options. Another directory services project/product/option is always a good thing. However, I still want to see Novell return to its former glory. It's a sad day when people are relying on Active Directory, using it as a REAL directory services solution.
But back to the point, it's good to see another option. And it's good to see that RedHat is putting their power behind it.
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I had to design a database and write a program that pulled information from it for a class. I decided to use PGA Tour statistics (which are on their site) and decided that Vijay Singh is the best player considering that he makes more eagles, birdies, and so forth. Stat for stat, he's the best (on the tour).
Sorry, I didn't attribute them in my haste
Dear Sir,
I work for the firm MBNA and have an account with $126,155.29 in deposits in the name of one LinuxFund...
Looking for water on the moon is like looking for the Northwest Passage.
I would think this puts Google in the Evil(tm) category.
All this time they've been using me? - I feel hurt.
I see nothing on Redhat's site or the Fedora site about this.
Wouldn't that be the first place I should be looking?
no... my point is exactly the opposite
At the local, middle-class Wal-Mart, poker table tops that sell for $50 now were selling for $15 during Christmas time. Wal-Mart's stores operate using JIT stocking and the demand was high. Instead of being stuck with thousands of these things they priced them with no markup (I assume). If people are coming in to buy the cheapest poker table top in town they are likely buying other things, where the highest selling items are competitively priced due to the inherent flexability in their system. At those times much of the advertising is word of mouth, and it gets around when people come back from the store.
The Internet shopping beast is another story. Prices reflect what people expect to pay worldwide. Anyone over the price limit will not generate business.
Wal-Mart doesn't have the same price as their on-line store. Target doesn't even carry the same products. Two examples; Matrix Reloaded was 15.95 online (walmart.com) the day it went for sale, yet at the local Wal-Mart was selling copies for 21.98 - Target sells Divx certified DVD players online but doesn't list the Philips DVP642 (classic) where it can be bought at the local store.
Your audience is different. I'd say instore shoppers are naive about instore products and prices. Because of the Internet you can buy things from anyone, anywhere. Your options are not the local department store shelves anymore. But I would say that online prices are due to the overall market's supply and demand pressure - where Wal-Mart stores will "rollback" prices throughout the day.
I say anyone paying too much for something on the internet is a fool. It is easy to establish what an item *should* cost by using a number of shopping search engines. I'll never buy another piece of electronics on a whim - you can have much more when you do your homework.
Beware: Wal-Mart's online price is never the same as the store price. Their in-store price is directly affected by sales where online is another story.
Sometimes you need to get out of the house...
Well, as long as you have the scratch to pay these international agents
I assume you mean "agent" to read "sweatshop worker"
Asia and South America? Where the wages are "extreme" to say the least.
It isn't to get the spotlight off the ethics investigation - it is to get money into Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
You have to remember DeLay is from Texas where all the aerospace companies are.
That is why selecting for traits is a hideous idea. Isn't it a form of genocide?We need those people who are a little unbalanced, but gifted. In the case of Autism, relationships are affected as "geekiness" raises. But as you point out the most outgoing among us aren't the greatest thinkers.
Tony Robbins didn't invent the lightbulb - but he has helped some people lifehack a raise or a new wife or whatever. It takes both sides for homo sapiens to progress. I'm sure we need captians of the football team to build our houses and geeks to design them. The point is that we need a diverse gene pool, we can't exclude what we see as defects.
Where will the space program go if we kill off the geeks?
Where will the sex and reproduction go if we kill off the jocks?
I read that as:
Google Raises Earth to Beta
Section 8 of the Constitution does say the government should build physical infrastructure like Roads as well as communication infrastructure like Post Offices.
Okay, I'll give it to you on that metaphor - but you have to agree that cities must offer POP e-mail services to match your "Roads and Post Offices". If you offer the roads (IPoRF/WiFi) then offer the post office!
Been done:
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/516
Can we move forward at all?
Totally political post which is false and uses an argument from the Bush administration's bag. I say castration is in order.
I expect you to support a comment like that, with a WWW.GNAA.US link under your username
It has all been tried before...
Hey, try Windows 2000. Much more stable than ME and uses memory so much better. Add another hard drive and use "Dynamic Disks" to stripe the Swap (and catalog (indexing service) and temp folders...) across drives and you'll have a flying machine.
I was just being silly.
Yesterday there was a small congressional hearing looking into nuclear weapons and their ability to be used by terrorists. During the hearing someone testified that you see declassified documents on the internet, but never anything comprehensive.
The congressmen, some, were asking their questions like they wanted the information to be out there and talked a lot of urban myths and so forth. They were almost let down when they found out the truth - it hasn't happened yet, "they" don't have a bomb.
Anyways, this reads like an encyclopedia article though...
I've got Cobuyitaphobia you insensitive clod!!!
The NAT you speak of is called NAT overloading. If you want multiple computers to receive connections from the outside you can use Static NAT.... most real routers handle this with no problems.
Also, let me add that the IPv4 blocks are a lot smaller today. We don't give out 4 million or ~250 addresses at a time, we give out a small block here and there (CIDR). Plus, since the rest of the world is going to move to IPv6 we can reclaim those billions of Asian addresses.
Just a thought...
Welcome to the world of "Directory Services". They will help you locate resources on the network. As an administrator, enabling or restricting access to resources has now become a lot easier.
Sarcasm aside: It's all about options. Another directory services project/product/option is always a good thing. However, I still want to see Novell return to its former glory. It's a sad day when people are relying on Active Directory, using it as a REAL directory services solution.
But back to the point, it's good to see another option. And it's good to see that RedHat is putting their power behind it.
You failed the Turing test.
Yeah, I got one too!