Giving another person your job means you have none. Giving that person your surplus food means you still have enough.
It's not that simple. A surplus (large supply without a matching demand) ought to result in lower prices for the producers. This is an incentive for them to switch to a different crop, or a different use for land altogether. This is a natural way to optimize production and use of resources. Giving away our surplus continues overproduction of the crop and keeps prices high for US consumers.
I am not an NTFS expert, but I do know that Windows XP's official defragmenter can operate on NTFS partitions. If you believe its "before" and "after" charts, it actually optimizes block layout. I have no doubt that Vista and 7 have the same.
Be careful when minting on your employer's resources. There has been at least one court case dealing with misuse of resources when an employee of a school district installed a distributed.net client (registered to himself) on school PCs.
I sell my hammer to my neighbor, according to the government I should be paying taxes on that transaction.
Strictly speaking, not true. You pay sales tax (at least in Iowa) only on products that you sell on a regular basis -- as a business would. On one-off transactions sales tax is not expected.
It appears that Boost Mobile changed its pricing structure -- I no longer see 5 cents per minute/SMS on their web site.
Now it's $50/mo unlimited, or $2/day unlimited. In both cases, unlimited data is included -- but in my experience it's very slow on their IDEN network.
Having used Boost's data (tethered to my laptop), if mobile data is important to you, avoid IDEN at all costs.
Well, ok, I think we're talking past each other. I agree with you that derivatives sometimes "are treated as lotto tickets"—the same way that individual investors treat shares of some random company as lotto tickets.
Derivatives are powerful tools. As such, they can be abused and misused, and certainly it seems that this is what happened in the last few years. However, does this mean that derivatives as a whole should be banned?
I don't work for Goldman Sachs, but I try to follow the ongoing investigation. An executive officer of Goldman Sachs made the statement, "We gave our customers as much risk as they wanted." I certainly don't know whether the customers knew the risks (that seems to be what's under investigation), but on face value, that statement is exactly the goal of an investment firm.
As I mentioned in another post, derivatives are powerful tools that can act as insurance for conservative investing or as leverage for aggressive investing. Derivatives give their users as much risk as desired. The fact that they can be abused or misused (like all powerful tools) doesn't mean that derivatives themselves should be banned.
No bait. Theoretically, all derivatives are useful to our society in the same way that all free-will economic transactions are useful to our society. They allow both parties to be better off—otherwise the transaction wouldn't occur.
Every book on options discusses the benefits (and dangers) of every options position—they all have a role. Some provide insurance, others provide leverage.
Whether insurance (or amount of leverage) should be regulated is another matter.
Flash forward a few decades, and banks don't really care for deposits and loans any more, because there are these exotic, sexy bits of fiction called "derivatives". They are the banking equivalent of scratch-off Lotto tickets.
Sounds like this is taken verbatim out of some bestseller that's popular with the masses. Derivatives are no more "fictional" than other types of securities -- they're just slightly more complex. They're also nothing like Lotto tickets. Please learn about actual derivatives in the real world, such as options and credit default swaps. Both are derivatives, both are useful to our society, neither is fictional, and neither is anything like a Lotto ticket.
Don't worry too much about the protocols that the banks data comes in. Just try to find a local bank or credit union whose business model is not completely based on fucking you over. Try to create a relationship with a human being at the bank itself.
In other words, "I don't know anything about the topic at hand, but I have strong opinions about something unrelated, and I'll be damned if I don't ejaculate them every place I can."
Please, don't bring down the average IQ of this discussion.
Also, maybe give credit for students that earn most boinc credits?
That's dangerously close to discrimination based on socio-economic status. Those students with newest, fastest, and/or largest number of computers will get the highest credit.
Formal proof of correctness is such a joke that I can't take this whole rating method seriously. Yay, you have a proof that your program is correct - where's your proof that your proof is correct? Did you prove your source code or machine code correct? And your microcode? And your gate layout? On your I/O controller?
You're right, all proofs are useless. They're just an invention by The Man to keep us down.
There are a couple of problems with your argument. First, "a proof of a proof" is redundant. I don't know whether you've ever seen a formal proof, but each step in a proof proceeds only once it's justified.
Second, not having a proof for the I/O controller, gate layout, microcode, and so on does not invalidate the proof for a program. A proof for a program will assume that the underlying layers are correct. Then it's up to the microcode, I/O controllers, and so on to have their own formal proofs.
Did you PAY for either? I have a hard time believing that anyone would pay the license cost of a Windows Server OS for a workstation pc.
If the grandparent is a university student or a member of the ACM, he has access to the MSDN Academic Alliance, which offers many Microsoft products for free -- both ISOs for download and serial numbers that are your own.
Right now I can get a free copy of Windows Vista Business (32-bit and 64-bit), the latest Visual Studio, the latest SQL Server, and Windows Server 2008 Standard, just by virtue of being a Computer Science student at a university.
There is no reason not to have both installed—they don't step on each other's toes. A great reason to have OOo installed alongside MS Office is to be able to work with OpenDocument file formats.
The non-sequitur is in the fact that it wasn't the government that asked Apple to stop; it was the Advertising Standards Authority. From their web site: "The Advertising Standards Authority is the independent body set up by the advertising industry to police the rules laid down in the advertising codes." There is no government involvement.
Yes, but this doesn't make the advertisement true or acceptable. The same argument can be made for ISPs' advertisements of "unlimited Internet" (unless you consume too much) or "6 Mbps download" (for the first 3 seconds) -- these are both misleading even though most people will not suffer from these statements.
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then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
Fine. At least then employees (current and prospective) would not be deceived about what's expected of them. A "salaried" employee is typically associated with 40 hours/week. If Apple expects and demands more, that's fine -- as long as they make it clear. An "hourly employee" status with a known hourly rate is a much better proposition than getting hired as "salaried" and being expected to work 60+ hours/week without compensation.
Teachers are paid for the 187 work days (or however many it is in the district), which do not include summer. In the past, school districts gave each teacher a choice: to pay the annual salary only during the nine months of the school year, or to distribute the same salary over 12 months. The 12-month option was simply to help with financial planning and budgeting -- it was never advertised as paying "for the summer."
Recently, school districts realized that by removing the option to pay the nine-month salary in nine months, they're subtly earning interest on their employees' money, since the district holds it in their coffers for longer. So this is what we have now: teachers are paid for nine months of work, but it is forcibly divided across 12 months. Summers have never been (and to my knowledge are still not) compensated.
When I was a working at a school district, I could not update the software on my Gentoo laptop from within the district's network. The FTP connections would time out, and HTTP connections would give a firewall error message.
The reason? My laptop was configured with the mirror of the Free Software Lab @ UTD, which was just a few miles away and had a very large pipe. The URL was http://mirror.fslutd.org./
It took an appeal to the IT department to get them to unblock it.
You just described a windowing system, which every modern graphical user interface implements. Why not make use of your window manager, rather than asking individual programs to reinvent the wheel?
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Giving another person your job means you have none. Giving that person your surplus food means you still have enough.
It's not that simple. A surplus (large supply without a matching demand) ought to result in lower prices for the producers. This is an incentive for them to switch to a different crop, or a different use for land altogether. This is a natural way to optimize production and use of resources. Giving away our surplus continues overproduction of the crop and keeps prices high for US consumers.
You are implying that if you donate to the IRS, the IRS will refund the "neighbors" that the GP is concerned with...
Torrents have nothing to do with it. "Screw paying for anything" does.
I am not an NTFS expert, but I do know that Windows XP's official defragmenter can operate on NTFS partitions. If you believe its "before" and "after" charts, it actually optimizes block layout. I have no doubt that Vista and 7 have the same.
Be careful when minting on your employer's resources. There has been at least one court case dealing with misuse of resources when an employee of a school district installed a distributed.net client (registered to himself) on school PCs.
I sell my hammer to my neighbor, according to the government I should be paying taxes on that transaction.
Strictly speaking, not true. You pay sales tax (at least in Iowa) only on products that you sell on a regular basis -- as a business would. On one-off transactions sales tax is not expected.
It appears that Boost Mobile changed its pricing structure -- I no longer see 5 cents per minute/SMS on their web site.
Now it's $50/mo unlimited, or $2/day unlimited. In both cases, unlimited data is included -- but in my experience it's very slow on their IDEN network.
Having used Boost's data (tethered to my laptop), if mobile data is important to you, avoid IDEN at all costs.
$50/mo is for unlimited talk and SMS. Infrequent users can opt to pay a nickel per minute and per SMS message.
Haha, seriously?
One reason for the zero might be that if the surface is frictionless, blood won't stick to it either.
Boost Mobile offers at least one: Motorola i1. It even supports push-to-talk.
Well, ok, I think we're talking past each other. I agree with you that derivatives sometimes "are treated as lotto tickets"—the same way that individual investors treat shares of some random company as lotto tickets.
Derivatives are powerful tools. As such, they can be abused and misused, and certainly it seems that this is what happened in the last few years. However, does this mean that derivatives as a whole should be banned?
I don't work for Goldman Sachs, but I try to follow the ongoing investigation. An executive officer of Goldman Sachs made the statement, "We gave our customers as much risk as they wanted." I certainly don't know whether the customers knew the risks (that seems to be what's under investigation), but on face value, that statement is exactly the goal of an investment firm.
As I mentioned in another post, derivatives are powerful tools that can act as insurance for conservative investing or as leverage for aggressive investing. Derivatives give their users as much risk as desired. The fact that they can be abused or misused (like all powerful tools) doesn't mean that derivatives themselves should be banned.
No bait. Theoretically, all derivatives are useful to our society in the same way that all free-will economic transactions are useful to our society. They allow both parties to be better off—otherwise the transaction wouldn't occur.
Every book on options discusses the benefits (and dangers) of every options position—they all have a role. Some provide insurance, others provide leverage.
Whether insurance (or amount of leverage) should be regulated is another matter.
You must like listening to yourself talk.
Flash forward a few decades, and banks don't really care for deposits and loans any more, because there are these exotic, sexy bits of fiction called "derivatives". They are the banking equivalent of scratch-off Lotto tickets.
Sounds like this is taken verbatim out of some bestseller that's popular with the masses. Derivatives are no more "fictional" than other types of securities -- they're just slightly more complex. They're also nothing like Lotto tickets. Please learn about actual derivatives in the real world, such as options and credit default swaps. Both are derivatives, both are useful to our society, neither is fictional, and neither is anything like a Lotto ticket.
Don't worry too much about the protocols that the banks data comes in. Just try to find a local bank or credit union whose business model is not completely based on fucking you over. Try to create a relationship with a human being at the bank itself.
In other words, "I don't know anything about the topic at hand, but I have strong opinions about something unrelated, and I'll be damned if I don't ejaculate them every place I can."
Please, don't bring down the average IQ of this discussion.
Also, maybe give credit for students that earn most boinc credits?
That's dangerously close to discrimination based on socio-economic status. Those students with newest, fastest, and/or largest number of computers will get the highest credit.
It doesn't work in Moonlight.
Formal proof of correctness is such a joke that I can't take this whole rating method seriously. Yay, you have a proof that your program is correct - where's your proof that your proof is correct? Did you prove your source code or machine code correct? And your microcode? And your gate layout? On your I/O controller?
You're right, all proofs are useless. They're just an invention by The Man to keep us down.
There are a couple of problems with your argument. First, "a proof of a proof" is redundant. I don't know whether you've ever seen a formal proof, but each step in a proof proceeds only once it's justified.
Second, not having a proof for the I/O controller, gate layout, microcode, and so on does not invalidate the proof for a program. A proof for a program will assume that the underlying layers are correct. Then it's up to the microcode, I/O controllers, and so on to have their own formal proofs.
Did you PAY for either? I have a hard time believing that anyone would pay the license cost of a Windows Server OS for a workstation pc.
If the grandparent is a university student or a member of the ACM, he has access to the MSDN Academic Alliance, which offers many Microsoft products for free -- both ISOs for download and serial numbers that are your own.
Right now I can get a free copy of Windows Vista Business (32-bit and 64-bit), the latest Visual Studio, the latest SQL Server, and Windows Server 2008 Standard, just by virtue of being a Computer Science student at a university.
There is no reason not to have both installed—they don't step on each other's toes. A great reason to have OOo installed alongside MS Office is to be able to work with OpenDocument file formats.
Gov't says "stop bsing in your ads."
The non-sequitur is in the fact that it wasn't the government that asked Apple to stop; it was the Advertising Standards Authority. From their web site: "The Advertising Standards Authority is the independent body set up by the advertising industry to police the rules laid down in the advertising codes." There is no government involvement.
It will do what most people want it to do.
Yes, but this doesn't make the advertisement true or acceptable. The same argument can be made for ISPs' advertisements of "unlimited Internet" (unless you consume too much) or "6 Mbps download" (for the first 3 seconds) -- these are both misleading even though most people will not suffer from these statements.
Bourne Again Shell, not Borne.
then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
Fine. At least then employees (current and prospective) would not be deceived about what's expected of them. A "salaried" employee is typically associated with 40 hours/week. If Apple expects and demands more, that's fine -- as long as they make it clear. An "hourly employee" status with a known hourly rate is a much better proposition than getting hired as "salaried" and being expected to work 60+ hours/week without compensation.
you are paid for your summer break
Technically I believe that's not correct.
Teachers are paid for the 187 work days (or however many it is in the district), which do not include summer. In the past, school districts gave each teacher a choice: to pay the annual salary only during the nine months of the school year, or to distribute the same salary over 12 months. The 12-month option was simply to help with financial planning and budgeting -- it was never advertised as paying "for the summer."
Recently, school districts realized that by removing the option to pay the nine-month salary in nine months, they're subtly earning interest on their employees' money, since the district holds it in their coffers for longer. So this is what we have now: teachers are paid for nine months of work, but it is forcibly divided across 12 months. Summers have never been (and to my knowledge are still not) compensated.
When I was a working at a school district, I could not update the software on my Gentoo laptop from within the district's network. The FTP connections would time out, and HTTP connections would give a firewall error message.
The reason? My laptop was configured with the mirror of the Free Software Lab @ UTD, which was just a few miles away and had a very large pipe. The URL was http://mirror.fslutd.org./
It took an appeal to the IT department to get them to unblock it.
You just described a windowing system, which every modern graphical user interface implements. Why not make use of your window manager, rather than asking individual programs to reinvent the wheel?