They manage because they are paid a lot more than you for the work you do.
$4-$5 here hurts us more than $8-$9 a gallon there hurts them because our currency is in the toilet. We effectively, when adjusted for differences in buying power, pay a lot more for most goods than people in the EU.
Why do you think the US is the new hot travel destination? For someone in the UK or the EU, its like an American visiting Mexico ten years ago. Everything is dirt cheap, so its the place to go to buy stuff, vacation, etc.
Oil won't break America, but the plummeting dollar will make the American way of life fall back in line with the rest of the world.
Yes, but then it shoots it up a great big heat cannon back into space!
(Actually yours is a good question -- it would, in effect, create an urban heat island... although massively smaller than typical UHI's so I would imagine the environmental impact would be small?)
You can't interact with the object any better though SL than you can through a webpage.
Its *not* the object, no matter how much you make believe it is, and the things that are most useful about seeing a product in person (fit, finish, size, heft, etc) are all lost in that environment.
I have to admit I do not get Second Life even remotely.
If companies build stores, why would I fire up that, log in, "walk" to the store, move around to look at things instead of typing in a URL in my browser and having it on its way before SL would've even finished logging in?
If I want to browse videos and articles, why wouldn't I use my browser?
People use a browser these days instead of going to the library because moving around in the physical world to do it is just inefficient. While sure, maybe I can stand in a virtual library reading a virtual newspaper while sitting in my undies at home, but why the hell wouldn't I just go read the article in Firefox?
So I don't get it. However you're saying you can hope. Why? I'm curious what you see as the benefit or use, tangible or otherwise, of that sort of a system other than for virtual property "speculators"?
No, outsourcing to a new staff is done to save money. Selling an entire department to a new company to manage while continuing to do the same job they've done all along is done for many reasons, costs rarely being one of the primary ones. Expense predictability, project management skills, increased accessibility to deeper support services, etc, are all MUCH bigger reasons to take an existing staff and shift their paycheck to another organization.
Isn't that the truth. Case in point, I'm in the middle of reading Anansi Boys at the moment. If the person who typeset the book happens to be a Slashdot reader, I'd love to... um... show my appreciation for the font they chose.
I laughed and agree with the "Funny" moderatiom, but for the sake of being a little serious, court orders trump privacy laws or terms of service, unfortunately.
Actually Intel hasn't -- the x86 platform, generally speaking, guarantees cache coherency... and that's a significant overhead at a huge increase in reliability of multi-threaded software written by poor engineers. (No need to worry about inserting every little memory barrier manually, and forgetting a "volatile" keyword, to use a Java example, won't bork your system) At small numbers of CPUs (2 on die, for example) thats an intelligent solution. At 4 or 8 it starts to really make a lot less sense, and at 100 its unworkable.
What is really needed is to eliminate the requirement for cache coherency and put the intelligence in the runtimes. At compile time you can't figure out where threading issues happen, but analysis at runtime can likely find (and automatically correct) concurrency problems.
In fact, given the problem of cache synchronization I'm sure both Intel and engineers at IBM, Sun and Microsoft's compiler research groups are all looking at ways to help make that work reliably.
Why do you think the cattle is being grazed in the felled forest?
Because sugar cane is being grown in their former grazing land.
You might want to do some research as well. The rate of deforestation tracks the rate of ethanol use, not the rate of meat consumption. You don't need fancy math to see that.
Based on people I know who have done it, and other stuff I've seen online it seems everyone goes from Microsoft to Amazon because they want excitement, then Amazon to Google because they realize Amazon isn't that exciting, and then Google back to Microsoft because they realize they want to work 40 hour weeks and be comfortable.
No, and in fact it was done fairly commonly, at least regionally. There were plenty of BBSes you could chat on that routed traffic between other BBSes in the local region... I never saw any go more than maybe a 50 mile radius, but you'd often have them straddling local calling areas.
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They manage because they are paid a lot more than you for the work you do.
$4-$5 here hurts us more than $8-$9 a gallon there hurts them because our currency is in the toilet. We effectively, when adjusted for differences in buying power, pay a lot more for most goods than people in the EU.
Why do you think the US is the new hot travel destination? For someone in the UK or the EU, its like an American visiting Mexico ten years ago. Everything is dirt cheap, so its the place to go to buy stuff, vacation, etc.
Oil won't break America, but the plummeting dollar will make the American way of life fall back in line with the rest of the world.
Yes, but then it shoots it up a great big heat cannon back into space!
(Actually yours is a good question -- it would, in effect, create an urban heat island... although massively smaller than typical UHI's so I would imagine the environmental impact would be small?)
Of course as I post this, I realize I should've pointed out that solar energy is really nuclear fusion, so we really have a fusion economy already.
We just need to reduce our degrees-of-separation!
Where do you think that nuclear material came from? Exploding stars, thus solar.
And while its not entirely understood why the core of the Earth is still hot, nuclear decay is one theory which would make geothermal solar as well.
Lets all play six-degrees-of-solar-energy!
You can't interact with the object any better though SL than you can through a webpage.
Its *not* the object, no matter how much you make believe it is, and the things that are most useful about seeing a product in person (fit, finish, size, heft, etc) are all lost in that environment.
I have to admit I do not get Second Life even remotely.
If companies build stores, why would I fire up that, log in, "walk" to the store, move around to look at things instead of typing in a URL in my browser and having it on its way before SL would've even finished logging in?
If I want to browse videos and articles, why wouldn't I use my browser?
People use a browser these days instead of going to the library because moving around in the physical world to do it is just inefficient. While sure, maybe I can stand in a virtual library reading a virtual newspaper while sitting in my undies at home, but why the hell wouldn't I just go read the article in Firefox?
So I don't get it. However you're saying you can hope. Why? I'm curious what you see as the benefit or use, tangible or otherwise, of that sort of a system other than for virtual property "speculators"?
Back in my day that took 18 hours... and of course back then I was lucky to take 18 seconds ;)
No, outsourcing to a new staff is done to save money. Selling an entire department to a new company to manage while continuing to do the same job they've done all along is done for many reasons, costs rarely being one of the primary ones. Expense predictability, project management skills, increased accessibility to deeper support services, etc, are all MUCH bigger reasons to take an existing staff and shift their paycheck to another organization.
No, I'm really 6'4", ripped with an 18" cock and squirrel ears.
Isn't that the truth. Case in point, I'm in the middle of reading Anansi Boys at the moment. If the person who typeset the book happens to be a Slashdot reader, I'd love to... um... show my appreciation for the font they chose.
*cracks knuckles*
7. I will not read slashdot in class.
Wow, that makes me feel old. I'm not sure CmdrTaco was born when I was in 10th grade...
Um, I didn't use the "fear itself" line.
Notice my strategic social commentary through the act of leaving "fear itself" out?
In fact, if you notice, I said what we have to fear is our government. I'm not particularly afraid of fear, or terrorists for that matter.
I really am afraid of spiders, though.
Just remember, the only thing we have to fear is...
Um...
Well, is our government it seems.
Hey, I didn't say it was a good idea. I just said I'd be willing to bet they're doing that.
No, its the equivalent of taking a flamethrower to all your neighbor's houses because you think there might be a wasp flying around.
I laughed and agree with the "Funny" moderatiom, but for the sake of being a little serious, court orders trump privacy laws or terms of service, unfortunately.
That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".
I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".
*grunt*
>.>
Actually Intel hasn't -- the x86 platform, generally speaking, guarantees cache coherency... and that's a significant overhead at a huge increase in reliability of multi-threaded software written by poor engineers. (No need to worry about inserting every little memory barrier manually, and forgetting a "volatile" keyword, to use a Java example, won't bork your system) At small numbers of CPUs (2 on die, for example) thats an intelligent solution. At 4 or 8 it starts to really make a lot less sense, and at 100 its unworkable.
What is really needed is to eliminate the requirement for cache coherency and put the intelligence in the runtimes. At compile time you can't figure out where threading issues happen, but analysis at runtime can likely find (and automatically correct) concurrency problems.
In fact, given the problem of cache synchronization I'm sure both Intel and engineers at IBM, Sun and Microsoft's compiler research groups are all looking at ways to help make that work reliably.
Why do you think the cattle is being grazed in the felled forest?
Because sugar cane is being grown in their former grazing land.
You might want to do some research as well. The rate of deforestation tracks the rate of ethanol use, not the rate of meat consumption. You don't need fancy math to see that.
Hmmm, I like that idea. Might teach them not to claw on things.
Where do I get some?
As others have said:
a) yes they will disable it.
b) unlimited texting is $19.95 and has been for at least a year. Less if its an addition to a plan that had texting included in come variety.
Based on people I know who have done it, and other stuff I've seen online it seems everyone goes from Microsoft to Amazon because they want excitement, then Amazon to Google because they realize Amazon isn't that exciting, and then Google back to Microsoft because they realize they want to work 40 hour weeks and be comfortable.
Pennies are zinc.
No, and in fact it was done fairly commonly, at least regionally. There were plenty of BBSes you could chat on that routed traffic between other BBSes in the local region... I never saw any go more than maybe a 50 mile radius, but you'd often have them straddling local calling areas.
Or less, this could be evidence that it really does make you go blind.