Probably fairly valuable clothes at the time. Few people ever actually saw money in their whole lives; a dowry would most likely have been in the form of clothes, cloth and similar things.
I believe the guy showing off the guitar is John Elder Robison, author of "Look me in the Eye" and brother of the author of "Running with Scissors." I highly recommend Look me in the Eye; not only for it's stories of being a roadie for the band but it's look into life with Aspergers.
You're completely delusional. My relatives in Ireland, England, and Australia have much better healthcare than we have here in the US. They don't have to waste ages filling out forms; they just get care because they are citizens.
I also have relatives in the EU and Australia and have seen the EU's healthcare system up close and personal, while there is much to like about it there are also some downsides. Emergency care is great - simply go, get treated and leave, in emergency rooms that aren't crammed full of people using it as their primary care doctor because that's the only way they can get care. The down side is they ration care by availability while we ration it by ability to pay. Unless it is a serious health issue you may have a wait to see a doctor. In some places, doctor can have private practices and as a result their is a two tier system. Personally, while I think universal coverage is a better system overall it isn't perfect either.
And you know what? They pay less for their healthcare than we do.
Yes, you heard that right: we pay as much in taxes for Medicare & Medicaid as they do for universal healthcare. Plus, on top of medicare/medicaid, we also pay private insurance.
Excellent point - people forget they pay 100% of their insurance costs - either by a deduction from their pay or by a lower salary that factors in what the employer pays.
One downside of universal care is the system will set prices for things like drugs; driving down the profits and incentives for research. We cant argue whether or not that is a good thing but it will be one unavoidable economic result from the US adopting such a system. In effect, much of the world will stop getting a free ride from the higher cost of drugs in the US.
Which is why some p2p software, such as WASTE, has modes where it will always load links wether or not there is real traffic.
If the arms race goes on, we'll end up with a constantly saturated internet with only random connections sending apparent random data, leaving any actual signal indistinguishable and drowned out by the massive amounts of random noise.
Airlines making sure their flight crews can identify their best passengers. Here in the EU! This is a logical outcome of the drive to take care of their most valuable passenger s- the high profit margin ones. Fly a lot and do it at full freight and / or first and they go out of their way to make flying as pleasant as possible. Coming in from overseas - someone meets you at the plane and whisks you to the front of the immigration line. Need to change a flight? They pull your ticket up and a row of $$$$ show up to alert the agent that this customer is one of their VIPs. they even have *gasp* secret high level frequent flier status whose cards magically appear via overnight delivery.
Being a (scumbag) contractor, my performance reviews are very simple and binary - a) all ok, please carry on/do new project b) not ok, goodbye!
I have the same one, but we still use force ranking. As the sole employee, I must decide which 15% of my body to get rid of. I leaning towards my left foot. While the choice is easy now, I fear as the years pass they will become more difficult.
1. Being an independent is t ough - you'll spend a lot of. Ike looking for jobs so you rate needs to cover that. You could sign on with a body shop that provides staff but then hey need to take a cut and will want to beat down your rate. insurance - get your spouse to take a job that offers it. At 40, buying it on your own is expensive. If you do go the independent route, join local orbs with independents and hang out for a year to get a feel for what it takes.
2. That is your best play. Beef up that skill with your current employer so if you do get laid off you can offer an array of skills. You might consider going with an implementation consulting firm that can hire programmers cheap but need good project managers.
3.An MBA can be a good career changer. If you go that route, do night school and get your employees to help foot the bill if the will. Go to the best school you can- if your in NYC, Stern or Columbia. Philly? Wharton. Chigaco - UC or NW. San Francisco - Cal. Atlanta - Emory or possibly GaTech At your age, the job hunt will be harder and you need a name brand to help you out. It can be very rewarding, though, with a combo of MBA/tech background. Don't think about staying in finance - most firms will not think your experience is in finance but IT. Consulting firms are your best bet, along with traditional firms.
I'd also consider a government job. While they are suffering from pay freezes, the benefits are good, pay is decent and the retirement is pretty darn good.
No Obama's lawyers TOLD the Supreme Court it's just a tax, and therefore should be legal. Go review their arguments. The grandparent poster was correct: Obama and his lawyers lied and said "it's not a tax" back in 2009/10, but in 2012 his lawyers argued it was in order to make it pass the court.
So? One's a political and the other is a legal argument.
And when it's cheaper for your employer to drop your insurance, pay a small tax, and let you live on medicare, how long do you think you'll have that plan?
Ignoring the tax penalties for employers that don't provide coverage as required by the law; let's consider your scenario.
You ultimately pay for the insurance in the form of a lower salary - your employer pays their part and get s a tax break and that part is a tax free benefit to you. If an employer dropped it they would be at a disadvantage to componies that pay it unless they paiad you more to make up for the lost benefit. If you are married with two incomes chances are olny one employer is covering you and your spouse - while teh one not electing coverage is working for less since tehy don't get the employer's portion back in teh form of a higher salary (usually). If you could buy into a pool for less than the extra wages plus current contributions you come out ahead. In short, it ain't as simple as you make it out.
considering most people think of Linux rather than GNU Linux shows how well the idea of Linux has been sold and how poorly GNU has done in comparison; despite some people's insistence on it being called GNU Linux.
I wonder how much they paid for Stonehenge back then...
Yea, but somebody sold them on the idea of making. I'm amazed who so many people equate sell with "charge money." People sell Linux, even if they don't call it that (although some actually sell it for cash). The point, that many seem to miss, is that creating something is not enough to ensure its success. Somebody has to convince others of its value to them.
This applies double to airline tickets. Consumers are the ones pushing for Cheaper! Cheaper! Cheaper! and look where that's got them.
From where I sit it's gotten them a lot. Sure, I no longer get white glove service but I'll gladly give that up for the cost savings I enjoy. My flight costs have gone down from $400 or more per flight which opens a lot more business opportunities for me.
If this occurs, then Microsoft has every reason to properly secure the bootloader, so that running other OSs is absolutely impossible.
The golden dream for Microsoft in this is that there are two companies making and selling hardware - Apple and Microsoft.
Two, to avoid anti-trust concerns.
The challenge they face is if margins are high enough to be attractive, at least one other alternative will emerge in the form of Android. Google would have a strong incentive oto unify the Andriod ecosystem and reduce the fragmentation by creating a standard design that anyone could build but not modify so that apps run on any device using the design. Google runs the app store and content ecosystem and hardware manufacturers supply the gateway to it.
tablet is a portable device that does a lot of neat and useful things but isn't as full featured as a computer; so you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as no really powerful office suite that is fully compatible with the desktop version.
It's a good thing, then, that both ARM and Intel versions of Surface come with full-fledged MS Office. It's not like an iPad in that respect.
According to their page it has "Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview
" - so it remains to be seen if they actually put a full fledged version of Office on it or if it some subset of the full suite. In addition, it appears to need programs from their store - be interesting to see what they offer. I hope it's a decent device; competition is good, it's just I think that they may wind up with more than a tablet but less than a PC that really doesn't catch on with either buying group.
Not only have I actively used such techniques - such as my "Famous Dictators and Cruel Leaders" series and the ever popular "Dead Little KnownPresidents" series when signing up for affinity cards and websites; I have also written about it. Yes, I am the reason Attila T. Hun is in your database, as well as a Mr. A Shickelgruber who resides at T. Bunker, Berlin. Please call me at 202-555-1212 to discuss this.
it looks more like a Macbook Air than an iPad, despite it's being a tablet.
MS even says:
Microsoft is claiming it 'rivals the best ultrabooks' and uses less power than the Core i5.
which reveals the problem it faces:
Despite being a tablet, the keyboard makes it a "computer" in the minds of a consumer; and yes I know the iPad is a computer but what's important is the psychological difference in the consumer's mindset and approach. A tablet is a portable device that does a lot of neat and useful things but isn't as full featured as a computer; so you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as no really powerful office suite that is fully compatible with the desktop version.,/P>
That's one of the brilliant things about the iPad - it's design broke the user's mindset and created a new paradigm - complete with a new OS and user interface. MS, maybe because of its desktop centric worldview can't seem to understand that and has come out with a device that they may call a tablet but will probably be viewed by many as a computer; and unless they meet those user's expectations of what a computer s they may just have yet another netbook on their hands. We've seen what tablets did to the netbook market, and it will be interesting to see how this device fairs.
... they ALL say it'll be done in 90 days. Right up to 11:30 on the 89th day, when realistically there is still six years of work to do, they'll still insist it'll be done in the next 30 minutes.
We have people fly half way around the world to work on projects. "Will you be ready for us?" we ask as we get on the plane. "Yes!" comes the resounding response. We arrive, discover the project is nowhere near ready, go home again, come back in anywhere from eight weeks to two years when it's actually ready and charge them a hefty chunk of cash for the inconvenience.
Wildly unrealistic schedules and dogged insistence that they're sticking to them in the face of all the evidence is the modus operandi of Chinese construction.
Also, China to USA is what Germany is to Greece, except Greece cannot print money and USA can, but the rest of the relationship is the same, USA needs China much more than China needs USA.
Actually, the two economies are intertwines theta both need each other. China needs a market for it's goods and a stable place to invest; the US likes cheap goods and the capital influx. While we have a large debt to China, sovereign debt is actually very fungible; even if the consequences of are severe. The US could, with a vote and stroke of the pen, wipe out or some all of its debt to China. Not likely, but it's not without precedent. Inflation could do the same. End the end, we really are prisoners of each other.
Am I the only one feeling a bit uneasy about this thread? Some Chinese construction projects are underfunded and of poor quality, therefore all Chinese buildings are crap? Some Chinese products are rip-off of foreign products, therefore all Chinese tech is copied? All Chinamen talk funny therefore all Chinamen dumb?
What concerns me is that an artificial deadline has been imposed for completing a very ambitious project. When a deadline is set, it creates, in many cases, a very strong tendency to meet the deadline, even if it means cutting corners. Combine that with a culture where face is very important and you have a potentially dangerous combination. Non of which is unique to China, universal for all of China; nor not prevalent in many other countries around the world.
Or, as we used to put it when building industrial sites - "We offer good, fast, and cheap options. Pick the two you want."
Monsanto has a nasty habit of suing innocent farmers who have decided to continue using the "generic" seeds provided by nature. They send-round lawyers to harass the farmers, issue threatening letters, and file court cases./p>
So the plants make the farmers Roundup Ready as well?
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Probably fairly valuable clothes at the time. Few people ever actually saw money in their whole lives; a dowry would most likely have been in the form of clothes, cloth and similar things.
Either that, or one hell of a party...
have you really never seen a bra before?
You realize you already answered your question:
Come on guys, I know this is Slashdot,
I believe the guy showing off the guitar is John Elder Robison, author of "Look me in the Eye" and brother of the author of "Running with Scissors." I highly recommend Look me in the Eye; not only for it's stories of being a roadie for the band but it's look into life with Aspergers.
You're completely delusional. My relatives in Ireland, England, and Australia have much better healthcare than we have here in the US. They don't have to waste ages filling out forms; they just get care because they are citizens.
I also have relatives in the EU and Australia and have seen the EU's healthcare system up close and personal, while there is much to like about it there are also some downsides. Emergency care is great - simply go, get treated and leave, in emergency rooms that aren't crammed full of people using it as their primary care doctor because that's the only way they can get care. The down side is they ration care by availability while we ration it by ability to pay. Unless it is a serious health issue you may have a wait to see a doctor. In some places, doctor can have private practices and as a result their is a two tier system. Personally, while I think universal coverage is a better system overall it isn't perfect either.
And you know what? They pay less for their healthcare than we do.
Yes, you heard that right: we pay as much in taxes for Medicare & Medicaid as they do for universal healthcare. Plus, on top of medicare/medicaid, we also pay private insurance.
Excellent point - people forget they pay 100% of their insurance costs - either by a deduction from their pay or by a lower salary that factors in what the employer pays.
One downside of universal care is the system will set prices for things like drugs; driving down the profits and incentives for research. We cant argue whether or not that is a good thing but it will be one unavoidable economic result from the US adopting such a system. In effect, much of the world will stop getting a free ride from the higher cost of drugs in the US.
Freedom of speech was meant to protect you from the government taking any action based on knowing you were saying things the government may not like.
It affords you protection from the government, but not protection from your fellow citizens thinking you're a moron.
Actually, your are incorrect. the correct statement would be:
It affords you protection from the government, but not protection from proving, by what you say, to your fellow citizens you're a moron.
Which is why some p2p software, such as WASTE, has modes where it will always load links wether or not there is real traffic.
If the arms race goes on, we'll end up with a constantly saturated internet with only random connections sending apparent random data, leaving any actual signal indistinguishable and drowned out by the massive amounts of random noise.
It's called /.
Airlines making sure their flight crews can identify their best passengers. Here in the EU! This is a logical outcome of the drive to take care of their most valuable passenger s- the high profit margin ones. Fly a lot and do it at full freight and / or first and they go out of their way to make flying as pleasant as possible. Coming in from overseas - someone meets you at the plane and whisks you to the front of the immigration line. Need to change a flight? They pull your ticket up and a row of $$$$ show up to alert the agent that this customer is one of their VIPs. they even have *gasp* secret high level frequent flier status whose cards magically appear via overnight delivery.
Being a (scumbag) contractor, my performance reviews are very simple and binary - a) all ok, please carry on/do new project b) not ok, goodbye!
I have the same one, but we still use force ranking. As the sole employee, I must decide which 15% of my body to get rid of. I leaning towards my left foot. While the choice is easy now, I fear as the years pass they will become more difficult.
1. Being an independent is t ough - you'll spend a lot of. Ike looking for jobs so you rate needs to cover that. You could sign on with a body shop that provides staff but then hey need to take a cut and will want to beat down your rate. insurance - get your spouse to take a job that offers it. At 40, buying it on your own is expensive. If you do go the independent route, join local orbs with independents and hang out for a year to get a feel for what it takes. 2. That is your best play. Beef up that skill with your current employer so if you do get laid off you can offer an array of skills. You might consider going with an implementation consulting firm that can hire programmers cheap but need good project managers. 3.An MBA can be a good career changer. If you go that route, do night school and get your employees to help foot the bill if the will. Go to the best school you can- if your in NYC, Stern or Columbia. Philly? Wharton. Chigaco - UC or NW. San Francisco - Cal. Atlanta - Emory or possibly GaTech At your age, the job hunt will be harder and you need a name brand to help you out. It can be very rewarding, though, with a combo of MBA/tech background. Don't think about staying in finance - most firms will not think your experience is in finance but IT. Consulting firms are your best bet, along with traditional firms. I'd also consider a government job. While they are suffering from pay freezes, the benefits are good, pay is decent and the retirement is pretty darn good.
typical americans. like everything about it except the bill. I'm in favor of everything about it except that "I have to pay for it" part....
typical human beings. like everything about it except the bill. I'm in favor of everything about it except that "I have to pay for it" part....
There, fixed it for you.
"The SCOTUS labeled it a tax after the fact."
No Obama's lawyers TOLD the Supreme Court it's just a tax, and therefore should be legal. Go review their arguments. The grandparent poster was correct: Obama and his lawyers lied and said "it's not a tax" back in 2009/10, but in 2012 his lawyers argued it was in order to make it pass the court.
So? One's a political and the other is a legal argument.
And when it's cheaper for your employer to drop your insurance, pay a small tax, and let you live on medicare, how long do you think you'll have that plan?
Ignoring the tax penalties for employers that don't provide coverage as required by the law; let's consider your scenario.
You ultimately pay for the insurance in the form of a lower salary - your employer pays their part and get s a tax break and that part is a tax free benefit to you. If an employer dropped it they would be at a disadvantage to componies that pay it unless they paiad you more to make up for the lost benefit. If you are married with two incomes chances are olny one employer is covering you and your spouse - while teh one not electing coverage is working for less since tehy don't get the employer's portion back in teh form of a higher salary (usually). If you could buy into a pool for less than the extra wages plus current contributions you come out ahead. In short, it ain't as simple as you make it out.
So GNU Linux will be forgotten?
considering most people think of Linux rather than GNU Linux shows how well the idea of Linux has been sold and how poorly GNU has done in comparison; despite some people's insistence on it being called GNU Linux.
I wonder how much they paid for Stonehenge back then...
Yea, but somebody sold them on the idea of making. I'm amazed who so many people equate sell with "charge money." People sell Linux, even if they don't call it that (although some actually sell it for cash). The point, that many seem to miss, is that creating something is not enough to ensure its success. Somebody has to convince others of its value to them.
Google is wanting to you to be technical and MS only cares about how well you can talk.
Which only goes to show that Google cares about the tech stuff, and MS just cares to make money.
Not saying that Google doesn't want money, but it doesn't seem to be all that matters to them.
MS on the other hand, that is all that matters to them.
One of the best advice I ever got was:
Remember, no matter how great of a thing you create, unless someone sells it it will be forgotten.
This applies double to airline tickets. Consumers are the ones pushing for Cheaper! Cheaper! Cheaper! and look where that's got them.
From where I sit it's gotten them a lot. Sure, I no longer get white glove service but I'll gladly give that up for the cost savings I enjoy. My flight costs have gone down from $400 or more per flight which opens a lot more business opportunities for me.
If this occurs, then Microsoft has every reason to properly secure the bootloader, so that running other OSs is absolutely impossible. The golden dream for Microsoft in this is that there are two companies making and selling hardware - Apple and Microsoft. Two, to avoid anti-trust concerns.
The challenge they face is if margins are high enough to be attractive, at least one other alternative will emerge in the form of Android. Google would have a strong incentive oto unify the Andriod ecosystem and reduce the fragmentation by creating a standard design that anyone could build but not modify so that apps run on any device using the design. Google runs the app store and content ecosystem and hardware manufacturers supply the gateway to it.
tablet is a portable device that does a lot of neat and useful things but isn't as full featured as a computer; so you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as no really powerful office suite that is fully compatible with the desktop version.
It's a good thing, then, that both ARM and Intel versions of Surface come with full-fledged MS Office. It's not like an iPad in that respect.
According to their page it has "Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview " - so it remains to be seen if they actually put a full fledged version of Office on it or if it some subset of the full suite. In addition, it appears to need programs from their store - be interesting to see what they offer. I hope it's a decent device; competition is good, it's just I think that they may wind up with more than a tablet but less than a PC that really doesn't catch on with either buying group.
Not only have I actively used such techniques - such as my "Famous Dictators and Cruel Leaders" series and the ever popular "Dead Little KnownPresidents" series when signing up for affinity cards and websites; I have also written about it. Yes, I am the reason Attila T. Hun is in your database, as well as a Mr. A Shickelgruber who resides at T. Bunker, Berlin. Please call me at 202-555-1212 to discuss this.
Microsoft is claiming it 'rivals the best ultrabooks' and uses less power than the Core i5.
which reveals the problem it faces:
Despite being a tablet, the keyboard makes it a "computer" in the minds of a consumer; and yes I know the iPad is a computer but what's important is the psychological difference in the consumer's mindset and approach. A tablet is a portable device that does a lot of neat and useful things but isn't as full featured as a computer; so you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as no really powerful office suite that is fully compatible with the desktop version.,/P> That's one of the brilliant things about the iPad - it's design broke the user's mindset and created a new paradigm - complete with a new OS and user interface. MS, maybe because of its desktop centric worldview can't seem to understand that and has come out with a device that they may call a tablet but will probably be viewed by many as a computer; and unless they meet those user's expectations of what a computer s they may just have yet another netbook on their hands. We've seen what tablets did to the netbook market, and it will be interesting to see how this device fairs.
Anyone want to shed some light on this process? Or is that simply some sort of oxide coating over the magnesium?
It's the hardware equivalent of vaporware.
... they ALL say it'll be done in 90 days. Right up to 11:30 on the 89th day, when realistically there is still six years of work to do, they'll still insist it'll be done in the next 30 minutes.
We have people fly half way around the world to work on projects. "Will you be ready for us?" we ask as we get on the plane. "Yes!" comes the resounding response. We arrive, discover the project is nowhere near ready, go home again, come back in anywhere from eight weeks to two years when it's actually ready and charge them a hefty chunk of cash for the inconvenience.
Wildly unrealistic schedules and dogged insistence that they're sticking to them in the face of all the evidence is the modus operandi of Chinese construction.
You left out: "Profit"
Been there, done that.
Also, China to USA is what Germany is to Greece, except Greece cannot print money and USA can, but the rest of the relationship is the same, USA needs China much more than China needs USA.
Actually, the two economies are intertwines theta both need each other. China needs a market for it's goods and a stable place to invest; the US likes cheap goods and the capital influx. While we have a large debt to China, sovereign debt is actually very fungible; even if the consequences of are severe. The US could, with a vote and stroke of the pen, wipe out or some all of its debt to China. Not likely, but it's not without precedent. Inflation could do the same. End the end, we really are prisoners of each other.
Am I the only one feeling a bit uneasy about this thread? Some Chinese construction projects are underfunded and of poor quality, therefore all Chinese buildings are crap? Some Chinese products are rip-off of foreign products, therefore all Chinese tech is copied? All Chinamen talk funny therefore all Chinamen dumb?
What concerns me is that an artificial deadline has been imposed for completing a very ambitious project. When a deadline is set, it creates, in many cases, a very strong tendency to meet the deadline, even if it means cutting corners. Combine that with a culture where face is very important and you have a potentially dangerous combination. Non of which is unique to China, universal for all of China; nor not prevalent in many other countries around the world.
Or, as we used to put it when building industrial sites - "We offer good, fast, and cheap options. Pick the two you want."
Monsanto has a nasty habit of suing innocent farmers who have decided to continue using the "generic" seeds provided by nature. They send-round lawyers to harass the farmers, issue threatening letters, and file court cases. /p>
So the plants make the farmers Roundup Ready as well?