Palladium sells for about $340,- per ounce, slightly more than half that of gold.
And that is with a relatively low demand. It is quite rare, at least more so than gold. If they start burning it with fuel, the demand will push the price more in the direction of that of platinum (about $1290) or above.
Americans are more pushy with doctors than the British. They are less likely to accept a "it will go away by itself" or "there is nothing wrong with you" or "you don't have heart-disease, just take an aspirin" diagnosis from their GP. Also, if there is even the slightest chance of a missed diagnosis, the doctor risks a lawsuit. The patient of the laid back doctor is likely to go to another doctor who WILL eventually find something, anything wrong with the patient's health, and the more laid back doctor loses patients, can't afford the $200,000 a year legal insurance fee and goes out of business.
Visio and Access for rapidly and easily designing and prototyping, powerpoint for presentations. There are other applications that can replace Word and Excel, but they don't support ythe same level of integration. Just drag and drop a table from Excel into a Word document.
Because Office doesn't support exporting to PDF yet, you'll need CutePDF writer: http://www.cutepdf.com/
Like you said, the customers service is nothing special, and arguably worse than companies like Dell, which operate in a market with more severe competition (the windows PC).
The Apple II was pretty cool, but the 25 years of unjustified media hype and the attitude of Mac fanatics have really spoiled the Apple brand for me
I like it. I like not having to insert the DVD to start a game, and I like the convenience of being able to buy a game without having to get a piece of plastic.
You American engineers have no reason to complain about money.
No scientist or engineer here in Europe can expect to make anything like $80,000 straight out of college. You're lucky if you make half that after several years of work experience.
In addition to that, you pay less income tax, and the cost of living is far lower in most parts of the US.
If you're not willing to work for less than $80,000 straight out of college, are you surprised your jobs are moving to India?
Support and maintenance costs go way up when every programmer writes his little chunk of the application completey in his own style. By standardizing, on tools, coding patterns, naming etc, a company makes it less difficult for someone to debug or modify code that someone else wrote.
PHP support on the AS/400 is in the makes. (It works now, but IBM doesn't install and configure it for you yet)
Obviously they don't like the M part, least of all on the AS/400, because DB2 is part of the operating system, and frankly, if MySQL is good enough for your needs, you shouldn't buy IBM.
so think more more heat (and droughts) for Africa...
Perhaps counterintuitive, but more heat means more rain in the tropics, not less.
Most historic, fossil- and geological records suggest that periods with higher global temperatures have usually been times of plenty nearly all over the world. Only ecosystems that depend on polar or arid climates shrink.
Ofcourse, these records are not concerned with economic damage due to rising sea levels, as that is a recent artifact of human culture.
They can charge about as much as DVD rental, if they manage to make it as convenient as P2P (or more convenient), people would pay for it.
People don't use file sharing software for the thrill of breaking the law, but because it is so much more convenient than going to the video store, browsing the many rows of plastic objects by hand, picking out the ones you like, then paying and taking them home, and then returning them to the video store after watching them.
Another reason to use P2P is to obtain TV shows that are not available where you live. It would be nice to be able to buy South Park when it airs, rather than a few years later when the current events they make fun of are not so current anymore.
A different port only protects a little bit against some worms. It is no security against sentient intruders. VPN sounds like just the solution for what you want to do.
On the contrary, whenever a scientific theory is proven wrong or incomplete, that just proves that all of science is wrong and the earth was created in 6 days, 6000 years ago.
Email is for staying up to date with the latest developments in body part enlargement, cures for erectile disfunction, cheap loans and the status of your investments in Africa.
Spam filters and the inexplicable habit of people to either not read their email at work any more and/or delete anything originating from outside the office have made email a very unreliable medium. Does your message really get read? Does it even arrive?
In my opinion (as someone who does both Unix and mainframe programming for a living) the problems you describe have a lot to do with the fact that COBOL programmers tend to be older people, who rolled into the programming field from something else, such as engineering or accounting a long time ago. They didn't study CS or IT in college, because there was not really such a field 20 years ago.
When they learned to code, people did not have computers with compilers available at home. You learned COBOL because that was what the application your company had was written in. It was written in COBOL because when development began, COBOL (or RPG) was the only one suitable for an application that handled valuable data rather than calculations or low level hardware control.
You didn't play around or experiment, because you were working with data that was very valuable to other people.
On top of that, comes what compares to a Mac mentality: being in love with an increasingly marginal phenomenon, and staying with the once handsome, but now bitter and abusive spouse, blind for the limitations, or even seeing them as strengths. You can't teach modern programming practices to people who run 5250 or 3270 emulators on 3 GHz Pentium IV PC's and try to explain the superiority of EBCDIC to you.
Kids don't read, period. They need to read books, litereature, histroy, etc. The nonsense that they need to read what interests them is ruining kids. They don't like it, hah, they don't read it, and we give them the perfect excuse.
In my opinion that does not belong in school. Reading literature is just like looking at paintings or going to the cinema. It will probably make them more interesting people if they do, but it's not the responsibility of the school to make kids more interesting people!
What kids need to learn in school are practical things such as math, geography, sciences, languages, arguably politics and some world history. Everything else you can do in your own time.
You want a public school to be like a classics major at university. Prepare for lots of drop-outs if you get your way.
Literature, rhetoric and philosophy have no value whatsoever if you have to cram it down someone's throat.
because it would involve admitting that they use such third-party libraries.
A company of that size doesn't sneakily use 3rd party software. They pay $$$ for 3rd party software they include, and they would only use 3rd party software if it was patented by a 3rd party, or prohibitively expensive to develop themselves. I'm pretty sure that does not include z-lib.
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Except that I do not see people in the US calling for Europeans to be beheaded
:)
You don't watch Fox news, do you?
Palladium sells for about $340,- per ounce, slightly more than half that of gold.
And that is with a relatively low demand. It is quite rare, at least more so than gold. If they start burning it with fuel, the demand will push the price more in the direction of that of platinum (about $1290) or above.
Americans are more pushy with doctors than the British. They are less likely to accept a "it will go away by itself" or "there is nothing wrong with you" or "you don't have heart-disease, just take an aspirin" diagnosis from their GP. Also, if there is even the slightest chance of a missed diagnosis, the doctor risks a lawsuit. The patient of the laid back doctor is likely to go to another doctor who WILL eventually find something, anything wrong with the patient's health, and the more laid back doctor loses patients, can't afford the $200,000 a year legal insurance fee and goes out of business.
Seriously, why doesn't anyone mention MS Office?
Visio and Access for rapidly and easily designing and prototyping, powerpoint for presentations. There are other applications that can replace Word and Excel, but they don't support ythe same level of integration. Just drag and drop a table from Excel into a Word document.
Because Office doesn't support exporting to PDF yet, you'll need CutePDF writer: http://www.cutepdf.com/
I don't love Apple.
Like you said, the customers service is nothing special, and arguably worse than companies like Dell, which operate in a market with more severe competition (the windows PC).
The Apple II was pretty cool, but the 25 years of unjustified media hype and the attitude of Mac fanatics have really spoiled the Apple brand for me
I like it. I like not having to insert the DVD to start a game, and I like the convenience of being able to buy a game without having to get a piece of plastic.
You American engineers have no reason to complain about money.
No scientist or engineer here in Europe can expect to make anything like $80,000 straight out of college. You're lucky if you make half that after several years of work experience.
In addition to that, you pay less income tax, and the cost of living is far lower in most parts of the US.
If you're not willing to work for less than $80,000 straight out of college, are you surprised your jobs are moving to India?
Are you the only programmer at your company?
Support and maintenance costs go way up when every programmer writes his little chunk of the application completey in his own style. By standardizing, on tools, coding patterns, naming etc, a company makes it less difficult for someone to debug or modify code that someone else wrote.
PHP support on the AS/400 is in the makes. (It works now, but IBM doesn't install and configure it for you yet)
Obviously they don't like the M part, least of all on the AS/400, because DB2 is part of the operating system, and frankly, if MySQL is good enough for your needs, you shouldn't buy IBM.
so think more more heat (and droughts) for Africa...
Perhaps counterintuitive, but more heat means more rain in the tropics, not less.
Most historic, fossil- and geological records suggest that periods with higher global temperatures have usually been times of plenty nearly all over the world. Only ecosystems that depend on polar or arid climates shrink.
Ofcourse, these records are not concerned with economic damage due to rising sea levels, as that is a recent artifact of human culture.
They can charge about as much as DVD rental, if they manage to make it as convenient as P2P (or more convenient), people would pay for it.
People don't use file sharing software for the thrill of breaking the law, but because it is so much more convenient than going to the video store, browsing the many rows of plastic objects by hand, picking out the ones you like, then paying and taking them home, and then returning them to the video store after watching them.
Another reason to use P2P is to obtain TV shows that are not available where you live. It would be nice to be able to buy South Park when it airs, rather than a few years later when the current events they make fun of are not so current anymore.
A different port only protects a little bit against some worms. It is no security against sentient intruders. VPN sounds like just the solution for what you want to do.
Iran is not an arab nation!
sshd should ofcourse be all:deny except a list of IP's you trust, and not allow:all except a list of IP's you don't trust.
On the contrary, whenever a scientific theory is proven wrong or incomplete, that just proves that all of science is wrong and the earth was created in 6 days, 6000 years ago.
I was surprised ESR mentioned his 'wife'. Maybe it is a metaphor?
When i posted the link, it redirected to the page for 'Penis' !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog
http://wowseriousbusiness.ytmnd.com/
Email is for staying up to date with the latest developments in body part enlargement, cures for erectile disfunction, cheap loans and the status of your investments in Africa.
Spam filters and the inexplicable habit of people to either not read their email at work any more and/or delete anything originating from outside the office have made email a very unreliable medium. Does your message really get read? Does it even arrive?
In my opinion (as someone who does both Unix and mainframe programming for a living) the problems you describe have a lot to do with the fact that COBOL programmers tend to be older people, who rolled into the programming field from something else, such as engineering or accounting a long time ago. They didn't study CS or IT in college, because there was not really such a field 20 years ago.
When they learned to code, people did not have computers with compilers available at home. You learned COBOL because that was what the application your company had was written in. It was written in COBOL because when development began, COBOL (or RPG) was the only one suitable for an application that handled valuable data rather than calculations or low level hardware control.
You didn't play around or experiment, because you were working with data that was very valuable to other people.
On top of that, comes what compares to a Mac mentality: being in love with an increasingly marginal phenomenon, and staying with the once handsome, but now bitter and abusive spouse, blind for the limitations, or even seeing them as strengths. You can't teach modern programming practices to people who run 5250 or 3270 emulators on 3 GHz Pentium IV PC's and try to explain the superiority of EBCDIC to you.
Not to mention the horribly sentimental 90's
Ah, but the 70's probably had more brilliant films than for example the 80's
Kids don't read, period. They need to read books, litereature, histroy, etc. The nonsense that they need to read what interests them is ruining kids. They don't like it, hah, they don't read it, and we give them the perfect excuse.
In my opinion that does not belong in school. Reading literature is just like looking at paintings or going to the cinema. It will probably make them more interesting people if they do, but it's not the responsibility of the school to make kids more interesting people!
What kids need to learn in school are practical things such as math, geography, sciences, languages, arguably politics and some world history. Everything else you can do in your own time.
You want a public school to be like a classics major at university. Prepare for lots of drop-outs if you get your way.
Literature, rhetoric and philosophy have no value whatsoever if you have to cram it down someone's throat.
I stand corrected. The copyright notice is even in some of the binaries. Thanks
because it would involve admitting that they use such third-party libraries.
A company of that size doesn't sneakily use 3rd party software. They pay $$$ for 3rd party software they include, and they would only use 3rd party software if it was patented by a 3rd party, or prohibitively expensive to develop themselves. I'm pretty sure that does not include z-lib.