yes. they need to be suiig google/youtube for not removing video playlists that match their albums. assuming their dumb enough to poke the sleeping bear.
there IS a difference in box color? hfs. i was having fun with it at the end. i wasnt even aware they had a box color thing going on. i havent actually bought a cpu in >5 years, and that was an AMD...last Intel I bought was a Pentium 3 at 500MHz, so that's what...14 years?
i still dont understand their numbering system. it seems designed to generate the most confusion possible as to what is where in the hierarchy. its got a higher number... oh wait but its an older name... no wait, it's got an -E... but the box is Blue... with an Eagle... but its wings are folded...
it has nothing to do with looking good. he ALREADY looks good. otherwise they wouldnt have hired him as CEO, and given him a performance bonus years in a row. it has everything to do with being a good leade who acknowledges that his ultimate success/failure is influenced very much by the workers below him. they did well, the company did well, he got rewarded, and he is in turn acknolwedging and rewarding his workers. Thats what good leaders do.
damn cynics should be drug into the street and shot.
> "On top of that, he is pretty much liable for nothing"
you had it up to here. CEO's are liable for -everything-.
And what's not fair about sharing a bonus with his workers to give them a bonus too? You people are all pulling in tons of outside factors that affect him, and making the scope broader than ought. He gets salary X because thats what he is worth as a CEO in that market. His workers get salary Y because that is what they are worth in that market. These are completely irrelevent to the bonus story.
Its real simple. He got a bonus. He shared the majority of that bonus. End of story.
Put simply the CEO's job is to be the HMFIC. His job is to make a profit. He is the one that answers to the Board and shareholders and gets fired when they dont.
Here, this should help: "Typically, the CEO/MD has responsibilities as a director, decision maker, leader, manager and executor. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader of the company, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day operations."
Engineers typically are responsible for none of those things, except maybe amongst their own team. Your post reflects little practicle knowledge or experience, or knowledge of business history (CEOs that tank companies, CEOs that get brought in to fix companies...and do so).
In short, your little socialistic view of business structure completely ignores the value of a good leader, and the disaster that is a bad leader.
dont ignore the time difference. the time difference is significant, as is the perception difference between lump sum and spread out.
an extra 8$ a week isnt much, your right. most people wouldnt notice it unless they already are financially smart enough to toss any extras like that into their savings (on top of their existing saving contributions). but most dont. and waiting a year for that extra to add up to something (300) decreases its worth substantially.
but if you give it to em lump sum instead of spread out, all sudden it has real immediate worth.
compare paying an extra 300$ on credit now, to paying an extra 300$ in a year. the credit interest alone after a year is probably (way) more than $300.
thats nice that you barely notice 300$ extra dollars. I'm happy that you are so successful.
but $300 is a pretty big bonus for most people. 300$ is a couple months of credit card payments. a car payment. a couple months of gas in the car. or something nice for the wife.
i wouldnt say dumb per se. its the same short term goal, long term blindness/ignorance type of thinking that dominates business. bonuses are an expenditure. expenditures are bad and must be minimized.
ok. 300 dollars spread out over a year comes to.....a 14 cent raise at 40/wk. Basically unnoticable.
but a lump sum 300, easily seen and tossed where the employee needs it most.
and no its not about personal PR, it about employee morale. the company did well, he got a bonus, he shared it with the workers who made it happen. good managers acknowledge that they didn't do jack by themselves, its their team that made it happen.
and its happened twice in a row. i'll bet those emplyees keep it up and it happens again next year.
Essentially your starting point is inherently invalid: a rise in the Pacific Ocean wont necessary result in a raise of all the other oceans. As pointed out, already the Pacific Ocean is higher than the Atlantic. This is most easily seen at the Panama Canal, where there's only 50 miles of seperation, yet a 30 foot difference in elevation (which when talking about oceans, is a HUGE difference in volume). You'd think there would be flow around the continents to even out the sea levels, but thats ignoring how the difference came to be int eh first place. The difference is created and maintained by the thermohaline circulation of the ocean.
Simiarly tides aren't uniform around the world. Some places the tidal range is less than a foot. Other's its >30 feet. The record is 53 feet, located somewhere in Nova Scotia (i think). Local geography (water basin shape/size) and local gravity distortions (mountains/valleys) all have an effect on tides.
Water flows. Changes in water level aren't instantaneous. Even ignoring any of the internal currents, tides, geography (that would affect flow rates), and the thermohaline circulation inherent in the ocean and assuming the ocean has a prismatic uniformity of nature, the ocean is so large that even small changes in sea level would take a long time to propogate worldwide. And as point out, some differences in sea level wont propagate.
And of course the ocean ISNT uniform in nature. its very dynamic, precisely because of its large size. the thermohaline circulation has a lot to do with why the ocean doesnt have a uniformity of elevation worldwide, and is probably similarly responsible for the most different rates/amounts of local sea level rise. then there's still the tides and such as well on top of that.
that meme is really not all that far off really. there's are a lot of folks who get into structural engineering because it interests them. if they specialize in steel design, overtime they get exposed to welding (besides, it's fun). eventually they learn just how much welders earn. there's a very decent numebr who abandon their engnneering career to become professional welders, and get all the funky specialist certifications, and earn as much or more than they did as an engineer. especially those undersea marine welding guys.
i have not yet had a single good experience with Origin. always end up having to download the cracked game to play something i bought legally. sometimes have to wonder why i bother buying it at all.
exactly. int he same of DOMA you had people saying on the right "THEY HAVE TO ENFORCE IT, THEY HAVE TO DEFEND IT"...
why? there is an obvious growing support for gay marriage, and opposition to DOMA. why should the fed fight to protect something that is obviously becoming quickly AGAINST the wishes of the governed? i garuntee if they actually did that, you'd then have people on the right saying "See? They dont care about the wishes of the people! they're trying to ram their version of government down our throats".
same thing here. they're backing off some, in this case not going to fight the state of colorado and gt a court to say "the fed's rules trump yours, yours is invalid". instead theyre letting the people work it out, eventually if support increases enough we'll see a new policy reflective of an evolving stance on pot become the national policy.
I mean, God forbid the people of the nation actually get a say in the laws they live by, and have a government that respects them.
(and I'm against pot legalization, but this post isnt about my own personal opinion, its about why and what the Adminstration is really doing and the justification for it)
He didn't say anything about nto enforcing. He said they won't fight the laws passed by these states.
As in, the United States Government represented by the Department of Justice will not take The State of Colorado to court to have their law removed.
Then, rather than a top down public policy enforcement that says "The government says pot is bad for you, tough luck", the people instead via state legislatures and later via the Congress can instead cause a new public policy reflective of new or evolving societal mores that say "We dont care, we want the pot."
God forbid the people actually get a say in what laws they have to live by.
That's an entirely different ballgame than "not enforcing", which is BS claim.
just pick them up through either Steam or Bittorrent and the problems largely disappear. Its mostly when they're delivered and managed through the Origin "service" that the problem really creep up.
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*Because HDMI sucks at displaying text. Unless they finlly fixed that in HDMI2 (which I doubt)
yes. they need to be suiig google/youtube for not removing video playlists that match their albums.
assuming their dumb enough to poke the sleeping bear.
there IS a difference in box color? hfs. i was having fun with it at the end. i wasnt even aware they had a box color thing going on.
i havent actually bought a cpu in >5 years, and that was an AMD...last Intel I bought was a Pentium 3 at 500MHz, so that's what...14 years?
i still dont understand their numbering system. it seems designed to generate the most confusion possible as to what is where in the hierarchy.
its got a higher number...
oh wait but its an older name...
no wait, it's got an -E...
but the box is Blue...
with an Eagle...
but its wings are folded...
Blah.
it has nothing to do with looking good.
he ALREADY looks good. otherwise they wouldnt have hired him as CEO, and given him a performance bonus years in a row.
it has everything to do with being a good leade who acknowledges that his ultimate success/failure is influenced very much by the workers below him. they did well, the company did well, he got rewarded, and he is in turn acknolwedging and rewarding his workers. Thats what good leaders do.
damn cynics should be drug into the street and shot.
> "On top of that, he is pretty much liable for nothing"
you had it up to here.
CEO's are liable for -everything-.
And what's not fair about sharing a bonus with his workers to give them a bonus too? You people are all pulling in tons of outside factors that affect him, and making the scope broader than ought. He gets salary X because thats what he is worth as a CEO in that market. His workers get salary Y because that is what they are worth in that market. These are completely irrelevent to the bonus story.
Its real simple.
He got a bonus.
He shared the majority of that bonus.
End of story.
Stop making it into somethign it's not.
Put simply the CEO's job is to be the HMFIC.
His job is to make a profit.
He is the one that answers to the Board and shareholders and gets fired when they dont.
Here, this should help: "Typically, the CEO/MD has responsibilities as a director, decision maker, leader, manager and executor. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader of the company, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day operations."
Engineers typically are responsible for none of those things, except maybe amongst their own team. Your post reflects little practicle knowledge or experience, or knowledge of business history (CEOs that tank companies, CEOs that get brought in to fix companies...and do so).
In short, your little socialistic view of business structure completely ignores the value of a good leader, and the disaster that is a bad leader.
your math doesnt add up.
and you're making his point for him and not even realizing it.
mod up
dont ignore the time difference.
the time difference is significant, as is the perception difference between lump sum and spread out.
an extra 8$ a week isnt much, your right. most people wouldnt notice it unless they already are financially smart enough to toss any extras like that into their savings (on top of their existing saving contributions). but most dont. and waiting a year for that extra to add up to something (300) decreases its worth substantially.
but if you give it to em lump sum instead of spread out, all sudden it has real immediate worth.
compare paying an extra 300$ on credit now, to paying an extra 300$ in a year. the credit interest alone after a year is probably (way) more than $300.
the time factor matters.
thats nice that you barely notice 300$ extra dollars.
I'm happy that you are so successful.
but $300 is a pretty big bonus for most people.
300$ is a couple months of credit card payments.
a car payment.
a couple months of gas in the car.
or something nice for the wife.
i wouldnt say dumb per se.
its the same short term goal, long term blindness/ignorance type of thinking that dominates business.
bonuses are an expenditure.
expenditures are bad and must be minimized.
ok. 300 dollars spread out over a year comes to.....a 14 cent raise at 40/wk.
Basically unnoticable.
but a lump sum 300, easily seen and tossed where the employee needs it most.
and no its not about personal PR, it about employee morale. the company did well, he got a bonus, he shared it with the workers who made it happen. good managers acknowledge that they didn't do jack by themselves, its their team that made it happen.
and its happened twice in a row. i'll bet those emplyees keep it up and it happens again next year.
Same incompetent parent/dog owner who wrote http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/07/kids_and_dogs_if_you_re_having_a_baby_do_not_get_a_puppy.html
Pretty sure she exists solely to write "controversial" pieces of idiocy to generate clicks and ad revenue.
Essentially your starting point is inherently invalid: a rise in the Pacific Ocean wont necessary result in a raise of all the other oceans. As pointed out, already the Pacific Ocean is higher than the Atlantic. This is most easily seen at the Panama Canal, where there's only 50 miles of seperation, yet a 30 foot difference in elevation (which when talking about oceans, is a HUGE difference in volume). You'd think there would be flow around the continents to even out the sea levels, but thats ignoring how the difference came to be int eh first place. The difference is created and maintained by the thermohaline circulation of the ocean.
Simiarly tides aren't uniform around the world. Some places the tidal range is less than a foot. Other's its >30 feet. The record is 53 feet, located somewhere in Nova Scotia (i think). Local geography (water basin shape/size) and local gravity distortions (mountains/valleys) all have an effect on tides.
Water flows. Changes in water level aren't instantaneous. Even ignoring any of the internal currents, tides, geography (that would affect flow rates), and the thermohaline circulation inherent in the ocean and assuming the ocean has a prismatic uniformity of nature, the ocean is so large that even small changes in sea level would take a long time to propogate worldwide. And as point out, some differences in sea level wont propagate.
And of course the ocean ISNT uniform in nature. its very dynamic, precisely because of its large size. the thermohaline circulation has a lot to do with why the ocean doesnt have a uniformity of elevation worldwide, and is probably similarly responsible for the most different rates/amounts of local sea level rise. then there's still the tides and such as well on top of that.
thats the best way to make the point really. start hurting some wallets, and you'll see change a lot faster.
that meme is really not all that far off really.
there's are a lot of folks who get into structural engineering because it interests them. if they specialize in steel design, overtime they get exposed to welding (besides, it's fun). eventually they learn just how much welders earn. there's a very decent numebr who abandon their engnneering career to become professional welders, and get all the funky specialist certifications, and earn as much or more than they did as an engineer. especially those undersea marine welding guys.
your luck is better than mine then.
i have not yet had a single good experience with Origin.
always end up having to download the cracked game to play something i bought legally.
sometimes have to wonder why i bother buying it at all.
exactly. int he same of DOMA you had people saying on the right "THEY HAVE TO ENFORCE IT, THEY HAVE TO DEFEND IT" ...
why? there is an obvious growing support for gay marriage, and opposition to DOMA. why should the fed fight to protect something that is obviously becoming quickly AGAINST the wishes of the governed? i garuntee if they actually did that, you'd then have people on the right saying "See? They dont care about the wishes of the people! they're trying to ram their version of government down our throats".
same thing here. they're backing off some, in this case not going to fight the state of colorado and gt a court to say "the fed's rules trump yours, yours is invalid". instead theyre letting the people work it out, eventually if support increases enough we'll see a new policy reflective of an evolving stance on pot become the national policy.
I mean, God forbid the people of the nation actually get a say in the laws they live by, and have a government that respects them.
(and I'm against pot legalization, but this post isnt about my own personal opinion, its about why and what the Adminstration is really doing and the justification for it)
He didn't say anything about nto enforcing.
He said they won't fight the laws passed by these states.
As in, the United States Government represented by the Department of Justice will not take The State of Colorado to court to have their law removed.
Then, rather than a top down public policy enforcement that says "The government says pot is bad for you, tough luck", the people instead via state legislatures and later via the Congress can instead cause a new public policy reflective of new or evolving societal mores that say "We dont care, we want the pot."
God forbid the people actually get a say in what laws they have to live by.
That's an entirely different ballgame than "not enforcing", which is BS claim.
you dont need to say that life -couldnt- evolve here.
you just need to say that is just simply -hadn't happened-, yet, at that time.
You make a good point.
Maybe we should send a probe or two to Mars and find out.
Icebike exists to troll.
Don't feed the trolls.
just pick them up through either Steam or Bittorrent and the problems largely disappear. Its mostly when they're delivered and managed through the Origin "service" that the problem really creep up.