A lot of people knew about the atrocities of the Holocaust as it was happening. Moving, cataloging, and killing six million people takes a pretty solid infrastructure and large set of human resource. It's not like the German high command went out in the night, rounded people up, killed them on their own, and hid their bodies.
Also, late in the war the US had intelligence on the then operating concentration camps in Germany and had the range to bomb them, but opted instead for targets of militaristic value. I can see the point of sticking w/military targets, but it's shame that a few sorties weren't scheduled for the camps, which might have saved hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, if not more.
how would it look like if whole Korea switched off windows?
Korea would be remiss to switch off of Windows, now that Visual Studio 2005 Team Systems is available. And from what I hear, it's not the same ol' song and dance.
What if the test was wrong? Maybe he didn't have AIDS when first tested, or maybe the test didn't pick it up this time.
More scarily, maybe the second test was wrong.
And why is the guy afraid to be retested?
Maybe this guy has these fears, that the second test was wrong, and would rather live in denial than go get a third test and find out that, "Whoops, you DO still have AIDS. Sorry bout getting you all excited."
Or was it used on Visual Studio 2005 perhaps? The one where they've already announced a service pack before the official launch date because people are so unhappy?
The sad thing is even with the moaning from some customers, they'll likely agree that VS2005 is still head and shoulders above VS.NET 2002/2003.
Atlas is the toolkit for creating AJAX-like apps. But ASP.NET 2.0 has the built-in, low-level functionality for implementing callbacks (which is what Atlas uses underneath the covers, if I'm not mistaken... which I may be, I've not explore Atlas in detail).
Money is all about faith as well, be it hard cold cash or stored as 1s and 0s in the bank. The day that the majority of the world decided that a particular currency is worthless... well, sucks to be holding that currency, be it under the mattress of in a bank.
But my point was not that 1s and 0s are inherently worthless. They have worth if people ascribe worth to them. The 1s and 0s in a bank have real worth since they represent real money which has (currently) worth in reality. But what worth do the 1s and 0s of a virtual island have?
A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.
Things have worth that others ascribe to them. For some reason, folks assign worth to this 'virtual' space, this collection of 1s and 0s, primarily, I assume, because of the expectation that others ascribe similar worths to these 1s and 0s. The problem is, there's really no inherent value to these 1s and 0s, like there is to, say, real estate in the physical world, or ownership in a company that has real assets.
Therefore, the whole 'value' of these 1s and 0s depends strictly on the false value people give it. Which, since it has no real value, can come crashing down to $0... (i.e., the company hosting this game decides to go out of business...)
Erm, sounds a lot like real life, no? The farmer buys the tractor that decays over time, but during its usable lifetime, he uses it to harvest grain, which he sells to others.
MindArk's take from the top is no different than the government's take off the top in the form of taxes. That revenue provides services - the servers and code in MindArk's case, roads, schools, a judicial system, and so forth in 'reality.'
Don't you think it's a bit too optimistic to expect "millions of downloads"?
I'll tell you what I expect - a whole slew of forwarded emails from parents and friends I don't keep in touch with much anymore that read, "In response to Google offerring to pay $1 for people to download the FireFox browser, Bill Gates is willing to pay YOU $1 for every person you forward this email to!"
But I think that you, like a lot of people, misunderstand (or take too literally) what a "weak" currency means -- it isn't necessarily bad, and especially for a country with a large current account deficit some weakening is acceptable if it reduces imports and increases exports.
Yeah, yeah, macroeconomically, it makes sense, but try saying that without a grimmace when you're trying to budget for a trip from the States to Europe!:-)
I would be surprised if my yet-to-be-conceived children approach me with utter disbelief one day, saying, "You mean people actually used to have the news printed on a piece of paper and delivered by another human being to their doorstep each morning?"
Don't forget Gary Smith who was awarded $41.2 million for overseeing the elimination of 93% of Ciena's value in just 4 years.
Amazing. I have never been in a corporate board meeting, but I'm certain I could have lost at least 98% of the company's value, and I'd only have asked for $40 mil!
I wonder how many people comply to my license for my custom RSS ASP.NET server control. The final requirement of the license reads: "If you use this control, you must stand on your desk, turn in a circle three times, and sing at the top of your lungs, 'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.'"
You brought back some greasy memories. I haven't been to a Long John Silvers since like '98. I don't think they have him out here in SoCal, but there were plenty of them back in the Midwest.
Yummy, hush puppies, fried fish, and fries. YUM-MY.:-)
The ads on the radio annoy me (AM is the worst), especially because of their long run time (radio show on for six minutes, ads for five, radio show back on for four, ads on for five, radio show on for eight, ads on for five, etc.) and they're basically all the same thing - refi, refi, refi, Internet site, refi, Internet site, refi, refi, refi. For FM I guess the formula is a bit different: car company, job company, car company, insurance, car company, beer, car company, beer.
Thankfully most of the radio shows I like to listen to are podcasted, which allows me to listen to them and fast forward through the commercials (if they're included).
Yeah, I'm not trying to defend your boss's actions or anything. It sucks, and sucky managers exist in every corp. Hopefully you found a job you like much better now.:-)
I never worked at Microsoft, but I was an intern there. And in watching some of the interal politics and talking with some team members in my group, I heard similar grumblings. But then again, my wife doesn't work at Microsoft, and she has expressed similar complaints about her past employers. So maybe it's more of a corporate America thing/large company thing, than a Microsoft thing.
In any event, what I really liked about working at Microsoft for that summer was that the average intelligence of my coworkers seemed quite high, especially compared to my previous internship. (I worked for a Microsoft training partner/consulting firm.) This, alone, wasn't enough to have me take a full time job on at Microsoft; yes, working with smart folks is nice, but working 60 hour weeks and living in a place where the sun comes out 75 days in the year was far from my ideal career!:-)
RSS/Atom feed to blog search results (blog search sites like IceRocket allow for this)
Meta-stats on the 'blogosphere' (excuse me for using that term). Basically be able to see trends in keywords and whatnot. Like Google Zeitgeist, but for blogs.
Integration with Google's Search History. At the moment, my blog searches on Google aren't showing up in my search history.
Ability to add my blog - that is, let me enter the URL to my blog's RSS or Atom feed.
Stats on the individual blog level - how many times did my blog show up in search results? How many click throughs?
Eventually I hope Google provides a service like FeedBurner. They have the data and infrastructure there, so I don't see why they wouldn't/couldn't.
This is precisely why women are paid, on average, like 70 cents to every average man's dollar. BECAUSE MEN GET WORK DONE. (Most) Women take too many personal days, care about this catty crap, and are too up in their heads. Ladies, shut up and get back to work.
Pretty funny how their email chain was circulated, although not surprising... after all, men love a great catfight.
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Also, late in the war the US had intelligence on the then operating concentration camps in Germany and had the range to bomb them, but opted instead for targets of militaristic value. I can see the point of sticking w/military targets, but it's shame that a few sorties weren't scheduled for the camps, which might have saved hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, if not more.
Korea would be remiss to switch off of Windows, now that Visual Studio 2005 Team Systems is available. And from what I hear, it's not the same ol' song and dance.
More scarily, maybe the second test was wrong.
And why is the guy afraid to be retested?
Maybe this guy has these fears, that the second test was wrong, and would rather live in denial than go get a third test and find out that, "Whoops, you DO still have AIDS. Sorry bout getting you all excited."
The sad thing is even with the moaning from some customers, they'll likely agree that VS2005 is still head and shoulders above VS.NET 2002/2003.
Atlas is the toolkit for creating AJAX-like apps. But ASP.NET 2.0 has the built-in, low-level functionality for implementing callbacks (which is what Atlas uses underneath the covers, if I'm not mistaken... which I may be, I've not explore Atlas in detail).
But my point was not that 1s and 0s are inherently worthless. They have worth if people ascribe worth to them. The 1s and 0s in a bank have real worth since they represent real money which has (currently) worth in reality. But what worth do the 1s and 0s of a virtual island have?
Things have worth that others ascribe to them. For some reason, folks assign worth to this 'virtual' space, this collection of 1s and 0s, primarily, I assume, because of the expectation that others ascribe similar worths to these 1s and 0s. The problem is, there's really no inherent value to these 1s and 0s, like there is to, say, real estate in the physical world, or ownership in a company that has real assets.
Therefore, the whole 'value' of these 1s and 0s depends strictly on the false value people give it. Which, since it has no real value, can come crashing down to $0... (i.e., the company hosting this game decides to go out of business...)
MindArk's take from the top is no different than the government's take off the top in the form of taxes. That revenue provides services - the servers and code in MindArk's case, roads, schools, a judicial system, and so forth in 'reality.'
I'll tell you what I expect - a whole slew of forwarded emails from parents and friends I don't keep in touch with much anymore that read, "In response to Google offerring to pay $1 for people to download the FireFox browser, Bill Gates is willing to pay YOU $1 for every person you forward this email to!"
Yeah, yeah, macroeconomically, it makes sense, but try saying that without a grimmace when you're trying to budget for a trip from the States to Europe! :-)
Case in point, perhaps?
I would be surprised if my yet-to-be-conceived children approach me with utter disbelief one day, saying, "You mean people actually used to have the news printed on a piece of paper and delivered by another human being to their doorstep each morning?"
Amazing. I have never been in a corporate board meeting, but I'm certain I could have lost at least 98% of the company's value, and I'd only have asked for $40 mil!
I wonder how many people comply to my license for my custom RSS ASP.NET server control. The final requirement of the license reads: "If you use this control, you must stand on your desk, turn in a circle three times, and sing at the top of your lungs, 'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.'"
Yummy, hush puppies, fried fish, and fries. YUM-MY. :-)
1.) Patent oxygen
2.) Make people pay me to breathe
3.) Profit!!!
Once the bucket runs dry Google will just materialize some more shares out of thin air and raise another $4.11 billion.
Don't forget TRAFFIC and WEATHER! Also, News at the top and bottom of the hours! :-)
The ads on the radio annoy me (AM is the worst), especially because of their long run time (radio show on for six minutes, ads for five, radio show back on for four, ads on for five, radio show on for eight, ads on for five, etc.) and they're basically all the same thing - refi, refi, refi, Internet site, refi, Internet site, refi, refi, refi. For FM I guess the formula is a bit different: car company, job company, car company, insurance, car company, beer, car company, beer.
Thankfully most of the radio shows I like to listen to are podcasted, which allows me to listen to them and fast forward through the commercials (if they're included).
I like many of the PBS radio programs, but it's frustrating that (IMHO) their best show - This American Life - is not podcastable. Boo.
Yeah, I'm not trying to defend your boss's actions or anything. It sucks, and sucky managers exist in every corp. Hopefully you found a job you like much better now. :-)
In any event, what I really liked about working at Microsoft for that summer was that the average intelligence of my coworkers seemed quite high, especially compared to my previous internship. (I worked for a Microsoft training partner/consulting firm.) This, alone, wasn't enough to have me take a full time job on at Microsoft; yes, working with smart folks is nice, but working 60 hour weeks and living in a place where the sun comes out 75 days in the year was far from my ideal career! :-)
Pretty funny how their email chain was circulated, although not surprising... after all, men love a great catfight.