There's always an exception, some good people get a bum steer early in their career and end up with an MBA.
Mostly, I thought MBAs were for those too clueless to get a real job and hold it long enough to learn some things, so they go to school to learn about the whole business process and after that, hopefully they're not completely clueless when their daddy installs them in upper management.
People who aren't being artificially advanced to the top really should learn enough along the promotion ladder to not need an MBA.
You know a good way to learn about business (the kind of things they teach in an MBA)?
Get a job.
Get a job with a smaller company where everyone has to wear all the hats sooner or later - stick around for 3 or 4 years, it's cheaper than school and as a bonus: you learn more. If you get lucky and find a great place, stick with it. If it's not your idea of fun after 3 or 4 years, you at least know the right questions to ask while interviewing your potential future employers.
It's just as valid as form-letter responses from your Congressmen - the fact that somebody cared enough to copy a form letter and attach their name to it counts for more than the people who ignored the issue.
I'm sure there's a dozen or more "serious legal arguments" here... so, why don't we copy-paste each one into a separate comment to the FCC so they can count the number of times they see each one.
The media "broke coverage" of Autism with Rain Man in 1988, and other than a few brief echos on Oprah and such it didn't say much again until the new millennium.
Would you think that with 17 years of practice, they'd have it down to a graceful sensitive socially correct science by now? I wouldn't. There was 10 years of "AWARENESS" beating the drum as loudly as possible while the "diagnosed" rates climbed from 1:10,000 through 1:150 and settled down around 1:68. Now that everybody is AWARE, there's been scant attempt to teach the nuance between Aspergers' and the various levels of dysfunctionality.
Give it another generation, when people who were AWARE in elementary school start framing the message it might take on a more human tone. For now, we're still getting our stories from the barely clued in.
PM is about communication, in both directions. When done well, management has realistic expectations and R&D focuses on those things that are important to management, including schedule.
When done poorly, it doesn't matter what position you're looking at, the more people they touch, the more they damage progress. PM being in the thick of things does have the capacity to destroy a good team, when they're doing their job poorly.
In the early 1990s this tax on tuition waivers as income was proposed, I believe it never passed back then.
I had just finished my masters' but I remember being incensed at the economics of it. With tuition waivers, I was living on $1200/month as a teaching assistant and getting my degree. Without tuition waivers, I would have been paying tax on $3000/month total "income" which would have taken away about half of my actual cash income - turning my situation from independent and sustainable to one of dependence on my parents to continue to foot the bills for my education. Other majors' TA salaries were much lower, and it would have turned them from earning small pocket money while getting a degree into paying out of pocket to cover the taxes.
Face value of tuition is a farce, so many students are given tuition waivers, scholarships, reduced rates, etc. Taxing it at face value would be like paying sales tax on the sticker price of a car, regardless of what you negotiated it down to; but worse, cars are only marked up 20%, I'd put average tuition markup closer to 60% at many of the "higher priced" institutions.
A) if you believe in the anonymity of TOR, you haven't read any Cold War literature about spy tracking. In the Cold War, travel across the Iron Curtain was severely curtailed, so finding spies was relatively easy because there were so few people travelling in the first place. Compare the volume of TOR traffic to the volume of traffic from public library, coffee shop, and other "imperfect" but relatively anonymous access points - the fact that you access TOR at all puts you on a short list of highly suspicious persons.
B) So, you've mined a bitcoin via TOR and had it awarded, great, like finding cash on the street - that rare street with no video surveillance and no witnesses paying attention. How many ways can you spend this anonymous bitcoin are there that won't identify you as the recipient of the value? Place a transaction via TOR to do what? Give it to somebody for nothing in return? Again, Bitcoins mined via TOR, transferred via TOR, are going to be on the short list - if you receive any value from these coins, you're on the short list too. Be prepared to have your every move tracked, online and in physical space.
Newsflash: social engineering has been used to influence elections ever since before the first election was held.
Nature of the beast, people will buy, beg, lie, cheat, and do any other thing that they can get away with to win a contest - if it's a popularity contest, that's going to mean lots of social engineering. Now we communicate via internet, so you can't just buy ads on television and radio anymore.
If Amazon Prime Pantry had a decent selection, that would have sold me on paying for Prime. It's a hell of a concept, but they're nowhere close to replacing our local grocery store, even for non-perishables.
Drive to the store, or have a box appear on the doorstep? There's measurable value in the doorstep option, both time and money.
Coincidentally, I just priced Mobil 1 ATF at WalMart and AutoZone... a few years ago I would have expected WalMart to beat AutoZone by 20%, but today the reverse is the case: AutoZone 9.99, WalMart 12.99 for the same product.
If they control the algorithms, they can decentralize mining more directly by giving preference to solvers who haven't been awarded recently. There is a problem with "solving farms" generating large numbers of identities, but that can be at least partly addressed by geographic distribution. If a solving farm entity is determined enough to get itself located at many diverse points around the globe, that's at least one component of diversity.
"Virtual location" can be in-part determined by ping-time triangulation. Servers attempting to game their location reporting can be downgraded based on abnormally high ping times. Servers with fast ping times are rewarded proportionally higher. So, a little guy running a single rig with good ping in a low-density of solvers location might get rewarded at "full rate" for his solves, while a bigger house running 100 rigs might get rewarded only 10% of full rate for each of their solves, making it more attractive for little guys to participate, particularly in locations without a lot of little solvers.
The trick of developing apps on the target hardware is a nice one, and phone processors are up to the task.
With bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and WiDi projection (that one's probably not ready, yet), you could literally walk up to a $300 "workstation" with your device and sit down and use it like a desktop without even taking it out of your pocket. Then walk away and all of what you've been doing is still there in your pocket.
Or, you could store everything "on the cloud," and access it from your phone or desktops - because that works so well.
Orville and Wilbur flew in 1903, both sides of WWI had fighting aircraft, and still in WWII my grandfather was drafted into the Army Air Corps because the Air Force wasn't founded until 1947...
Gagarin flew in 1961, +44 was 2005, and there's been relatively little militarization of space, yet.
The thing I find hillarious is the belief in anonymity which, while effectively true for a short time, is actually counter to the whole concept of what is a blockchain.
If you have a real blockchain, transactions are anti-anonymous.
It's targeting a specific species of mosquito, I think part of the effectiveness is reducing that species' competitiveness with other species of mosquito that fill the same niche in the environment.
End result, you'll still get bitten - but hopefully not Dengue.
All my tape handling gear included rubber drive belts at some point in the chain (floppy disks, VCR, cassette, etc.) Those belts rarely work for more than 15 years. I suppose there may be some direct drive cassette players, but I'm not aware of any.
Who sells good quality, new, cassette recorder/players?
5.2 million, that's like half of a "real" metropolitan corridor. Kudos to your uniformity in buying into Zuckerberg's platform, but not every country is locked indoors due to foul weather and lack of sunlight half the year.
Having said all that, Norway was a really cool place to visit (in the summer), even if your lift operators in Narvik were grumpy when the tourists, myself included, were staying up to experience the midnight sun.
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There's always an exception, some good people get a bum steer early in their career and end up with an MBA.
Mostly, I thought MBAs were for those too clueless to get a real job and hold it long enough to learn some things, so they go to school to learn about the whole business process and after that, hopefully they're not completely clueless when their daddy installs them in upper management.
People who aren't being artificially advanced to the top really should learn enough along the promotion ladder to not need an MBA.
You know a good way to learn about business (the kind of things they teach in an MBA)?
Get a job.
Get a job with a smaller company where everyone has to wear all the hats sooner or later - stick around for 3 or 4 years, it's cheaper than school and as a bonus: you learn more. If you get lucky and find a great place, stick with it. If it's not your idea of fun after 3 or 4 years, you at least know the right questions to ask while interviewing your potential future employers.
It's just as valid as form-letter responses from your Congressmen - the fact that somebody cared enough to copy a form letter and attach their name to it counts for more than the people who ignored the issue.
They've got a clear read on the will of the people, especially people who use the internet.
They don't care, but they do know.
I'm sure there's a dozen or more "serious legal arguments" here... so, why don't we copy-paste each one into a separate comment to the FCC so they can count the number of times they see each one.
But, are you privy to the government deals which have been brokered to leave these flaws in the mass market chips?
Oftentimes, willfully malign is a signpost for covertly compensated.
My house with glass windows is perfectly secure, until somebody picks up a rock from the flowerbed.
My uncle's solid wood front door was perfectly secure until some jerk with a sledgehammer smashed it open.
Sometimes the key under the mat just doesn't matter, other times the thief will notice it and you're done.
The media "broke coverage" of Autism with Rain Man in 1988, and other than a few brief echos on Oprah and such it didn't say much again until the new millennium.
Would you think that with 17 years of practice, they'd have it down to a graceful sensitive socially correct science by now? I wouldn't. There was 10 years of "AWARENESS" beating the drum as loudly as possible while the "diagnosed" rates climbed from 1:10,000 through 1:150 and settled down around 1:68. Now that everybody is AWARE, there's been scant attempt to teach the nuance between Aspergers' and the various levels of dysfunctionality.
Give it another generation, when people who were AWARE in elementary school start framing the message it might take on a more human tone. For now, we're still getting our stories from the barely clued in.
PM is about communication, in both directions. When done well, management has realistic expectations and R&D focuses on those things that are important to management, including schedule.
When done poorly, it doesn't matter what position you're looking at, the more people they touch, the more they damage progress. PM being in the thick of things does have the capacity to destroy a good team, when they're doing their job poorly.
In the early 1990s this tax on tuition waivers as income was proposed, I believe it never passed back then.
I had just finished my masters' but I remember being incensed at the economics of it. With tuition waivers, I was living on $1200/month as a teaching assistant and getting my degree. Without tuition waivers, I would have been paying tax on $3000/month total "income" which would have taken away about half of my actual cash income - turning my situation from independent and sustainable to one of dependence on my parents to continue to foot the bills for my education. Other majors' TA salaries were much lower, and it would have turned them from earning small pocket money while getting a degree into paying out of pocket to cover the taxes.
Face value of tuition is a farce, so many students are given tuition waivers, scholarships, reduced rates, etc. Taxing it at face value would be like paying sales tax on the sticker price of a car, regardless of what you negotiated it down to; but worse, cars are only marked up 20%, I'd put average tuition markup closer to 60% at many of the "higher priced" institutions.
actually anonymous bitcoins
A) if you believe in the anonymity of TOR, you haven't read any Cold War literature about spy tracking. In the Cold War, travel across the Iron Curtain was severely curtailed, so finding spies was relatively easy because there were so few people travelling in the first place. Compare the volume of TOR traffic to the volume of traffic from public library, coffee shop, and other "imperfect" but relatively anonymous access points - the fact that you access TOR at all puts you on a short list of highly suspicious persons.
B) So, you've mined a bitcoin via TOR and had it awarded, great, like finding cash on the street - that rare street with no video surveillance and no witnesses paying attention. How many ways can you spend this anonymous bitcoin are there that won't identify you as the recipient of the value? Place a transaction via TOR to do what? Give it to somebody for nothing in return? Again, Bitcoins mined via TOR, transferred via TOR, are going to be on the short list - if you receive any value from these coins, you're on the short list too. Be prepared to have your every move tracked, online and in physical space.
Newsflash: social engineering has been used to influence elections ever since before the first election was held.
Nature of the beast, people will buy, beg, lie, cheat, and do any other thing that they can get away with to win a contest - if it's a popularity contest, that's going to mean lots of social engineering. Now we communicate via internet, so you can't just buy ads on television and radio anymore.
If Amazon Prime Pantry had a decent selection, that would have sold me on paying for Prime. It's a hell of a concept, but they're nowhere close to replacing our local grocery store, even for non-perishables.
Drive to the store, or have a box appear on the doorstep? There's measurable value in the doorstep option, both time and money.
Coincidentally, I just priced Mobil 1 ATF at WalMart and AutoZone... a few years ago I would have expected WalMart to beat AutoZone by 20%, but today the reverse is the case: AutoZone 9.99, WalMart 12.99 for the same product.
If they control the algorithms, they can decentralize mining more directly by giving preference to solvers who haven't been awarded recently. There is a problem with "solving farms" generating large numbers of identities, but that can be at least partly addressed by geographic distribution. If a solving farm entity is determined enough to get itself located at many diverse points around the globe, that's at least one component of diversity.
"Virtual location" can be in-part determined by ping-time triangulation. Servers attempting to game their location reporting can be downgraded based on abnormally high ping times. Servers with fast ping times are rewarded proportionally higher. So, a little guy running a single rig with good ping in a low-density of solvers location might get rewarded at "full rate" for his solves, while a bigger house running 100 rigs might get rewarded only 10% of full rate for each of their solves, making it more attractive for little guys to participate, particularly in locations without a lot of little solvers.
The trick of developing apps on the target hardware is a nice one, and phone processors are up to the task.
With bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and WiDi projection (that one's probably not ready, yet), you could literally walk up to a $300 "workstation" with your device and sit down and use it like a desktop without even taking it out of your pocket. Then walk away and all of what you've been doing is still there in your pocket.
Or, you could store everything "on the cloud," and access it from your phone or desktops - because that works so well.
How's the audio quality? Can you line-out to bigger / better speakers?
Orville and Wilbur flew in 1903, both sides of WWI had fighting aircraft, and still in WWII my grandfather was drafted into the Army Air Corps because the Air Force wasn't founded until 1947...
Gagarin flew in 1961, +44 was 2005, and there's been relatively little militarization of space, yet.
The thing I find hillarious is the belief in anonymity which, while effectively true for a short time, is actually counter to the whole concept of what is a blockchain.
If you have a real blockchain, transactions are anti-anonymous.
It's not easy to short obvious bubbles, like the subprime mortgage market.
Once somebody figures out how to, that's probably the end of the upward spiral.
Your tax dollars at work, breeding mosquitoes in the lab by the shit-ton.
It's targeting a specific species of mosquito, I think part of the effectiveness is reducing that species' competitiveness with other species of mosquito that fill the same niche in the environment.
End result, you'll still get bitten - but hopefully not Dengue.
All my tape handling gear included rubber drive belts at some point in the chain (floppy disks, VCR, cassette, etc.) Those belts rarely work for more than 15 years. I suppose there may be some direct drive cassette players, but I'm not aware of any.
Who sells good quality, new, cassette recorder/players?
The filter makers know all about Bart's calls to Moe's Tavern.
5.2 million, that's like half of a "real" metropolitan corridor. Kudos to your uniformity in buying into Zuckerberg's platform, but not every country is locked indoors due to foul weather and lack of sunlight half the year.
Having said all that, Norway was a really cool place to visit (in the summer), even if your lift operators in Narvik were grumpy when the tourists, myself included, were staying up to experience the midnight sun.