where the smallest of slights is supposed to be grounds to:
Discontinue purchasing all products from a company with the thousands available in its line (Sony
You think what Sony did was a "small slight?" If you or I did it we'd be in jail right now.
Can I then use that excuse to say we should ban fat and tall people because I'm short and they block my vision?
I didn't advocate banning large passenger vehicles. I just explained why I don't like them. However, to go with your tortured analogy, if people could buy their bodies like they can buy their cars, then I wouldn't like large people, either. But probably not for the reasons you're thinking.
It's sad how every article about hybrids always focuses on how many years it takes to save enough gas to pay fro the added cost of the car. That's not what it is about! Especially not if you use the gas prices in a country where said price is held artificially low!
For it to really take off it's got to be economically attractive. And I don't think gas prices are artificially low in the US, they are just less artificially high than other places.
Why is it harder to see around than a Suburban? Or a minivan?
Those are too big also. I didn't mean to imply that Hummers are the only ones.
I'm not advocating any sort of ban, I'm just saying back in the old days one used to be able to see the road. And you kids get off my lawn, too.
Have you seen what cars looked like before the 1970s gas crisis?
Yes, that's when I learned to drive. They were big, but they weren't elevated, and you could see through the glass. The mental picture of the road one could construct was *much* clearer than it is today.
I've been there only once, but I thought it was Farang, with an F. (And I always heard it pronounced as Falang, but I was told that proper pronunciation was with an R sound.)
I didn't learn many words, but my favorite was for ice, which apparently translates to Strong Water (or maybe it was Hard Water. It's been a while.)
It's too damn big. You youngsters probably don't remember this, but there was a time when you could actually see what's going on ahead of you in traffic.
And what about people who work in Walmart because it's the only job that they can get?
Questions:
Why is it the only job they can get?
So then is it good or bad that they can work at WalMart?
If WalMart disappeared these people would never work again?
Would people be better off if WalMart had, in exchange for less growth, always paid its employees more than they were willing to work for?
What makes you think they would license it to Apple in a way that would undercut the insanely expensive Cintiq?
Wacom has a market cap of less than $900M, so I can think of one way...
At the moment one share of Wacom (Japanese Stock Market) is worth US$2,113, which coincidentally is roughly the retail price of a Macbook Pro. There are 419,000 shares outstanding, so a shipful of 419,000 laptops ought to do it;-)
do something please! Any fool can put money in the bank. At least convert it to Euros or something, the dollar is getting weaker!
What do you think, that they just toss it into a checking account? When a company has "cash" that doesn't mean there are bags of money laying around. Of course it gets invested. And they make a lot of money doing so.
And your statement about "at least convert it to Euros" is naive. If you really think you can predict currency exchange rates, believe me, you'll be able to afford a lot more than 1,000 shares of AAPL. Currency trading is the biggest market in the world. If you can predict it well you'll have all the money you could ever spend.
it incentivizes "inventing around" existing patents
I think his point was that he'd have preferred that the OP phrase it differently. Perhaps "Gives incentive to..." rather than the tortured "incentivizes."
I don't think you've written any truly complex software. Even when you've worked out the overall solution, the details can be enormous. It requires keeping a *lot* of information "active" in your brain. It takes some time to build up that picture, and distractions can make the structure fall.
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You think what Sony did was a "small slight?" If you or I did it we'd be in jail right now.
So don't ever leave town. Seems to me like Stanford just figured out a way to profit from piracy.
Hair tonic? What is this, a Bugs Bunny cartoon?
If you shorted it months ago you've been in a world of hurt.
That's just speculate.
Try it in the calculator for some real interface hijinx.
Not only do I not pay, but they also give me interest on my balance.
I don't see how your second sentence supports your first.
If you were really our friend you'd cut back a bit on the disasters.
I didn't advocate banning large passenger vehicles. I just explained why I don't like them. However, to go with your tortured analogy, if people could buy their bodies like they can buy their cars, then I wouldn't like large people, either. But probably not for the reasons you're thinking.
For it to really take off it's got to be economically attractive. And I don't think gas prices are artificially low in the US, they are just less artificially high than other places.
Those are too big also. I didn't mean to imply that Hummers are the only ones.
I'm not advocating any sort of ban, I'm just saying back in the old days one used to be able to see the road. And you kids get off my lawn, too.
Yes, that's when I learned to drive. They were big, but they weren't elevated, and you could see through the glass. The mental picture of the road one could construct was *much* clearer than it is today.
I've been there only once, but I thought it was Farang, with an F. (And I always heard it pronounced as Falang, but I was told that proper pronunciation was with an R sound.)
I didn't learn many words, but my favorite was for ice, which apparently translates to Strong Water (or maybe it was Hard Water. It's been a while.)
It's too damn big. You youngsters probably don't remember this, but there was a time when you could actually see what's going on ahead of you in traffic.
Questions:
Why is it the only job they can get?
So then is it good or bad that they can work at WalMart?
If WalMart disappeared these people would never work again?
Would people be better off if WalMart had, in exchange for less growth, always paid its employees more than they were willing to work for?
I'm not sure you've read your own sig.
Wacom has a market cap of less than $900M, so I can think of one way...
At the moment one share of Wacom (Japanese Stock Market) is worth US$2,113, which coincidentally is roughly the retail price of a Macbook Pro. There are 419,000 shares outstanding, so a shipful of 419,000 laptops ought to do it ;-)
What do you think, that they just toss it into a checking account? When a company has "cash" that doesn't mean there are bags of money laying around. Of course it gets invested. And they make a lot of money doing so.
And your statement about "at least convert it to Euros" is naive. If you really think you can predict currency exchange rates, believe me, you'll be able to afford a lot more than 1,000 shares of AAPL. Currency trading is the biggest market in the world. If you can predict it well you'll have all the money you could ever spend.
I think his point was that he'd have preferred that the OP phrase it differently. Perhaps "Gives incentive to..." rather than the tortured "incentivizes."
Not to split hairs, but I was responding to what he said, not what you would later think.
Oh man, you should have saved that for the bonus round.
I don't think you've written any truly complex software. Even when you've worked out the overall solution, the details can be enormous. It requires keeping a *lot* of information "active" in your brain. It takes some time to build up that picture, and distractions can make the structure fall.
By that measure, Britney Spears is a genius.
Some of the others are, I think, more impressive, and also if you follow the progress you'll see that he whipped up some of those in very short order.