I wonder what it costs retailers to deal with cash? You have to count it, keep it secure, deposit it, etc. etc. More or less than the percentage for electronic transactions?
As others have pointed out, there's nothing illegal about horse meat, but you have to label the packages. Given that it's unlikely that anyone who eats these has ever read the packaging, this is just a blunder that could have been avoided ("may contain traces of eye of newt, tail of bat, etc."). Chorizo is another example of a food group where you can either eat it, or read the packaging, but you won't eat it after reading the packaging.
There is a fair about of shit (quite literally - fecal matter) in US beef. If the US can reach the level of labeling requirements of the EU, we may all find out how much.
The other meme going round on Twitter and others, that the shock is not that the "Value Burgers" contain horse meat, but that they contain any meat at all.
The point I'm making is that people now percieve Java as being insecure, to the point where there is advice coming from many quarters to uninstall it. This could have happened under Sun, but didn't, although we'll never know what would have happened if Oracle hadn't acquired them.
It has happened with Oracle at the helm. And it seems that they may have know about this vulnerability for some months and not fixed it.
At the very least, if they care about Java, they need to put some serious resources into fixing the problem(s) and damage control.
True or not, I have the perception that there have been more very serious vulnerabilities and (two?) zero-days under Oracle. I remember very few major holes and no zero-days with Sun. Perception is just about everything here. Java should be an impossible attack vector, but the opinion is currently that it's so insecure you should disable it.
Sun was either more dedicated or just better at maintaing Java. There were problems, of course, under Sun, but the anti-Java sentiment based on vulnerabilities seems to be mostly post-Oracle (and somewhat justified).
Then to be consistent, 27 would have to be fizzfizzfizz and 81 would be fizzfizzfizzfizz.
Sure - 15 & 30 is fizzbuzz, 45 & 90 fizzfizzbuzz, etc. There are lots of them, maybe someone could write a program to figure them out!
I have a vague recollection that there was a variant that involved addition, so 14 was fizz. On the other hand, someone may have just told me that because I was loosing at the regular fizzbuzz and more negative handicapping never hurts!
I thought that 9 was fizzfizz, 25 was buzzbuzz and 75 fizzbuzzbuzz. Did someone change the rules? (My memory of the game is, perhaps, a little flawed since we didn't play it on the computer).
I'm disappointed that someone who feels that the free market will provide is using roads that are provided by the tax payers. We should cut this budget cost and move it to the road users.
It would cost about another $4 or so per gallon to cover the cost of the road system in the US (or you could come up with some other solution. Technology would allow most roads to be toll roads). Of course, if this huge tax payer subsidy is removed then other forms of transportation would immediately become viable. In other words, trains and buses would become cost effective and the US would get an environmentally friendly transport network.
So, I support you totally in your efforts to tell your socialist representatives to stop subsidizing roads with tax dollars. Please feel free to post copies of the letters you send to them here (or elsewhere).
I bought my 80+ year old father-in-law a whole box of punch cards and 20 rolls of paper punch tape. He's always complaining he needs computer supplies, I have a feeling these will last him a lifetime!
A brilliant move to improve public computer education in the UK. Now kids will have incentive to learn networking, system administration, and generally how the internet works in order to defeat the feature. A much better, practical lesson, than they'd ever get in formal classroom training - and it's free to the governemnt.
And normally, you'd be able to ask the nerdy Linux kid to fix your computer for you, but what interest would they have in porn?
First, Papa John's is making $87M in profits, so the $8M quarter to treat the employees reasonably should be an acceptable cost of doing business - especially if you think the $2.7M paid to Schnatter is a reasonable cost. Second, health insurance increases productivity - healthier employees, less churn, absenteeism, etc. Third, "real" companies provide health insurance without whining and they have to cover the cost of that. Finally, the 10c is a totally bogus number, people good at math have put the number at less than 5c/pizza.
The US spends double as a percent of GDP on health care of countries that provide universal care and yet has people who have no access to care. Everyone will get sick and need care at some point or another. A civilized country needs to figure out how to do this. Everyone in the US is one major illness away from bankruptcy - you get sick, you loose your job, you loose your insurance. The real solution would be single-payer, just about everyone's costs would decrease and everyone would be covered. The insurance industry, which is, obscenely, making a profit on people being sick - rather like a breathing tax - killed that by lobbying. Obamacare is a compromise, but once the whiny CEOs get over it, it will provide benefits to more people at a reasonable cost. Why these CEOs want to be in the business of healthcare and aren't lobbying the government to take over and get them out of the loop is, frankly, beyond me.
so if the CEO took zero compensation, he could pay everyone $216.21 more per year, or $8.31 per pay check, 10.3 cents more per hour.
I haven't run your numbers, but even if you're correct, assuming that the workers are just making it on current pay checks (probably not) then $216 per year means that the kids can have a Christmas, or you can go to the movies once in a while, or eat pizza or something "luxurious".
If Hostess was being run as a viable business, instead of being bleed dry by the current owners, there would be money to pay the employees reasonably. It's not the unions, it's the leeches.
You have the same whining going on at Papa John's where the CEO John Schnatter claims that to "Obamacare" forcing him actually to treat his employees reasonably and provide health insurance will cost $5 to $8 million for insuring more workers would mean 10 to 14 cents a pizza. Assuming that's true, then Schnatter's $2.7 million compensation package personally accounts for about 5 cents per pizza.
It's not really an issue of money, it's a matter of control. The bosses piss on the workers and that's "free market". The workers organize to try and get some respect and a living wage, that a slave revolt.
I'm not sure about incumbency and brand loyalty. There's so little to choose between laptops that, after a sequence of buying from Dell, when their sales people irritated me with their ignorance and unhelpfulness I switched brands.
Toshiba may just not care about the consumer market because they have enough exclusive, or nearly so, contracts with large corporations, and/or, they probably didn't think through the wide publicity that a stupid move like this would generate.
I do and I've known one other programmer who was really good at dealing with legacy code.
I don't find puzzle-type games interesting, but some really crappy code, useless variable names that change across functions, no comments and poor structure and you have a challenge you can dig your teeth into.
If there's an understanding of how crappy and critical the code is, you can stay immersed for a long as it takes. You can become the long-haired hippie in the sandals who people make way for in the halls (and not just because you never shower).
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I wonder what it costs retailers to deal with cash? You have to count it, keep it secure, deposit it, etc. etc. More or less than the percentage for electronic transactions?
As others have pointed out, there's nothing illegal about horse meat, but you have to label the packages. Given that it's unlikely that anyone who eats these has ever read the packaging, this is just a blunder that could have been avoided ("may contain traces of eye of newt, tail of bat, etc."). Chorizo is another example of a food group where you can either eat it, or read the packaging, but you won't eat it after reading the packaging. There is a fair about of shit (quite literally - fecal matter) in US beef. If the US can reach the level of labeling requirements of the EU, we may all find out how much.
The other meme going round on Twitter and others, that the shock is not that the "Value Burgers" contain horse meat, but that they contain any meat at all.
If I suggested to my wife that we should play some games in bed, she'd bring the XBox.
Or Blueberry Yogurt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1978
The point I'm making is that people now percieve Java as being insecure, to the point where there is advice coming from many quarters to uninstall it. This could have happened under Sun, but didn't, although we'll never know what would have happened if Oracle hadn't acquired them.
It has happened with Oracle at the helm. And it seems that they may have know about this vulnerability for some months and not fixed it.
At the very least, if they care about Java, they need to put some serious resources into fixing the problem(s) and damage control.
True or not, I have the perception that there have been more very serious vulnerabilities and (two?) zero-days under Oracle. I remember very few major holes and no zero-days with Sun. Perception is just about everything here. Java should be an impossible attack vector, but the opinion is currently that it's so insecure you should disable it.
Sun was either more dedicated or just better at maintaing Java. There were problems, of course, under Sun, but the anti-Java sentiment based on vulnerabilities seems to be mostly post-Oracle (and somewhat justified).
>That said, it's probably a Wal-Mart.
That's easy to check. Is it near a national monument?
Wal-Mart knew about Mexico bribery
Then to be consistent, 27 would have to be fizzfizzfizz and 81 would be fizzfizzfizzfizz.
Sure - 15 & 30 is fizzbuzz, 45 & 90 fizzfizzbuzz, etc. There are lots of them, maybe someone could write a program to figure them out!
I have a vague recollection that there was a variant that involved addition, so 14 was fizz. On the other hand, someone may have just told me that because I was loosing at the regular fizzbuzz and more negative handicapping never hurts!
I thought that 9 was fizzfizz, 25 was buzzbuzz and 75 fizzbuzzbuzz. Did someone change the rules? (My memory of the game is, perhaps, a little flawed since we didn't play it on the computer).
Not if you only send zeros:
http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=database+only+zeros&x=0&y=0
I'm disappointed that someone who feels that the free market will provide is using roads that are provided by the tax payers. We should cut this budget cost and move it to the road users.
It would cost about another $4 or so per gallon to cover the cost of the road system in the US (or you could come up with some other solution. Technology would allow most roads to be toll roads). Of course, if this huge tax payer subsidy is removed then other forms of transportation would immediately become viable. In other words, trains and buses would become cost effective and the US would get an environmentally friendly transport network.
So, I support you totally in your efforts to tell your socialist representatives to stop subsidizing roads with tax dollars. Please feel free to post copies of the letters you send to them here (or elsewhere).
My recollection (and no, I'm not going back to RTFA) is that it was the odd-ball 386's (386SX?) that was removed, not the entire 386 tree.
Be nice to see Google doing the same thing for the BS patents on Android.
I bought my 80+ year old father-in-law a whole box of punch cards and 20 rolls of paper punch tape. He's always complaining he needs computer supplies, I have a feeling these will last him a lifetime!
There are are hundreds of other TPB proxies out there. Taking one down will cause issues for 1 or 2 days until people find another proxy site.
There's a big list of TPB proxy sites here: http://proxybay.info/
Yes, but it's important that BPI sue people on a regular basis so that this information stays in the news.
A brilliant move to improve public computer education in the UK. Now kids will have incentive to learn networking, system administration, and generally how the internet works in order to defeat the feature. A much better, practical lesson, than they'd ever get in formal classroom training - and it's free to the governemnt.
And normally, you'd be able to ask the nerdy Linux kid to fix your computer for you, but what interest would they have in porn?
First, Papa John's is making $87M in profits, so the $8M quarter to treat the employees reasonably should be an acceptable cost of doing business - especially if you think the $2.7M paid to Schnatter is a reasonable cost. Second, health insurance increases productivity - healthier employees, less churn, absenteeism, etc. Third, "real" companies provide health insurance without whining and they have to cover the cost of that. Finally, the 10c is a totally bogus number, people good at math have put the number at less than 5c/pizza.
The US spends double as a percent of GDP on health care of countries that provide universal care and yet has people who have no access to care. Everyone will get sick and need care at some point or another. A civilized country needs to figure out how to do this. Everyone in the US is one major illness away from bankruptcy - you get sick, you loose your job, you loose your insurance. The real solution would be single-payer, just about everyone's costs would decrease and everyone would be covered. The insurance industry, which is, obscenely, making a profit on people being sick - rather like a breathing tax - killed that by lobbying. Obamacare is a compromise, but once the whiny CEOs get over it, it will provide benefits to more people at a reasonable cost. Why these CEOs want to be in the business of healthcare and aren't lobbying the government to take over and get them out of the loop is, frankly, beyond me.
so if the CEO took zero compensation, he could pay everyone $216.21 more per year, or $8.31 per pay check, 10.3 cents more per hour.
I haven't run your numbers, but even if you're correct, assuming that the workers are just making it on current pay checks (probably not) then $216 per year means that the kids can have a Christmas, or you can go to the movies once in a while, or eat pizza or something "luxurious".
If Hostess was being run as a viable business, instead of being bleed dry by the current owners, there would be money to pay the employees reasonably. It's not the unions, it's the leeches.
You have the same whining going on at Papa John's where the CEO John Schnatter claims that to "Obamacare" forcing him actually to treat his employees reasonably and provide health insurance will cost $5 to $8 million for insuring more workers would mean 10 to 14 cents a pizza. Assuming that's true, then Schnatter's $2.7 million compensation package personally accounts for about 5 cents per pizza.
It's not really an issue of money, it's a matter of control. The bosses piss on the workers and that's "free market". The workers organize to try and get some respect and a living wage, that a slave revolt.
I'm not sure about incumbency and brand loyalty. There's so little to choose between laptops that, after a sequence of buying from Dell, when their sales people irritated me with their ignorance and unhelpfulness I switched brands.
Toshiba may just not care about the consumer market because they have enough exclusive, or nearly so, contracts with large corporations, and/or, they probably didn't think through the wide publicity that a stupid move like this would generate.
put them in VMs!
Great Plan! If all your servers are virtual then you don't have to worry about diesel fuel when there's a hurricane!
What was the Huawei bid?
No one likes dealing with legacy code.
I do and I've known one other programmer who was really good at dealing with legacy code.
I don't find puzzle-type games interesting, but some really crappy code, useless variable names that change across functions, no comments and poor structure and you have a challenge you can dig your teeth into.
If there's an understanding of how crappy and critical the code is, you can stay immersed for a long as it takes. You can become the long-haired hippie in the sandals who people make way for in the halls (and not just because you never shower).
Wait, so we have a DIY device with a 40W laser and people are worried that the plywood might be a fire hazard?