My family/friends have mostly quit downloading because I refuse to refer them to (or install) the latest morpheus/limewire/ares/kazaa/genericp2p anymore.
Home prices going down won't cause property taxes to decrease. Your gov't decides how much money it needs and divides that figure by the total value of the properties in the city. That gives the mill rate you are taxed at based on the value of your home. If home prices fall, the mill rate goes up to compensate, since the government still needs the same amount of money to fund operations.
So if the government needs $10,000, and you're the only house in the city (worth $500,000) your mill rate is 0.0200 and you pay $10,000 in property tax. If the government needs $10,000 next year and your house value falls to $480,000 your mill rate is calculated at 0.020833 and you pay $10,000 in property tax.
Totally! I remember gathering my little team up into a semi-circle around the entrance to the first UFO I had encountered in the game.. at night, with the smoke and everything. I was thinking, "crap.. are they inside? are they outside already? I hope they don't have shields and lasers..". That was a great game.
Actually yes, in a fairly significant way I think that having to find people willing to work in those conditions, as cheap as they may be, limits the overall number of active farmer accounts. The costs for space/labour are a limiting factor, even if it seems that they are working for a pittance. If it was possible to just script away, the number of farmer-script accounts would go way up in comparison to the number now.
There was a case in UO a while back where a player had a rack of computers running hundreds (thousands?) of accounts at one time. All script mining on various shards.
I'm torn between my love for sticking it to cheaters, and my hate for spyware. I suffered through the speedhacks and scripters in UO, and every time the developers thought about a process scanner the players went nuts and the idea was dropped. In WoW you sign the terms of conduct each time there's a new patch, so technically you agree to let this warden thing run in the background. Is WoW a better game because of it? Probably.
There are already some big problems with ebay gold farmers.. I'd rather they had to sit at the computer to make their gold, rather than just running a script.
I've had serious stability issues since the last FF release. After 10 minutes of browsing I'm up to 106,340k mem usage and 190,552k VM size (which grew to 110,312k/200,208k while typing this btw). The crashman cometh.
hmm, maybe Hibernia in 1979? or is that too small?
I was under the impression that the problem is that there are not enough refineries to handle the crude that is being produced now. Saudi Arabia could produce an additional 1mbpd but the high-sulfur content makes it difficult for the big players to refine it.
Just wait until winter, when all the diesel that normally gets stockpiled over the summer months isn't around. That should get oil prices moving.
Just wait until they try to wind it down and suddenly the lawsuits start flying for willful destruction of property.
Isn't that the whole point behind MMORPGs NOT allowing actual ownership in-game? Since if there's a server wipe or something they have no obligations to the players to return all their houses/loot?
Targetalert, a Firefox extension that shows a little icon next to links giving an indication of what the target is (pdf, word, excel, ppt, zip, email, xml).
In Canada they market the diamonds mined here as polar diamonds with a laser etched polar bear on the girdle so you know it's rarer and more valueable.. they charge a premium for that. No cheap diamonds here.
I was that eight year old once. I asked the same question and my dad told me to walk up and ask our minister (Presbyterian) after the service. So I did. He said that god had always been there and that having faith meant believing that god was there, even without knowing it for a fact. I believe I suggested that god probably got bored without any stuff to play with.
I wish I knew then what I know now, so I could have asked something like, "If god is perfect and all that, then why is he allowed to sin (do not worship false idols, for I am a jealous god)?. Is that like do-as-I-say-but-not-as-I-do? and where are all the talking snakes? And if god loves all his creations, how much did he love the dinosaurs? He sure created his way out of that one, cuz Noah would probably have been hard pressed to round them all up".
IMHO (as a geek manager) the biggest mistakes that new managers make are:
1) Doing, when they should be managing 2) Thinking FOR their employees, not ABOUT them 3) Making every decision, not enabling 4) Not thinking ahead
If there's too much work to be done in a crisis, don't pick up all the slack yourself and stop managing, look into hiring a temp.
If every time an employee comes to you with a question you answer it, they won't learn to think for themselves and you'll be constantly bogged down. Ask them what they think, point them in the right direction if they're wrong. It will get them thinking in advance before coming to you and let the more important issues rise to the surface. (do they need more training?)
A big mistake made by new managers is thinking that their job is to approve every decision in the department. Enable your people, so that they know where the limits are. Teach them the basis for decisions and let them make some on their own.
Think in advance about budgets, staff vacation, staff training, staff evaluations & bonuses, etc. This is stuff that you weren't responsible for before and can sneak up on you. If you're caught unprepared by your boss on any of these issues it will make you look bad. "Why is 50% of your staff on vacation when there's a deadline coming up?", "Are you ready to do your mid-year evals?", "Are there any areas your staff is deficient in that require training?".
Finally, clean your desk up at the end of the day. File papers, empty inbox, etc. This might sound stupid, but you at least need to give staff the impression that you're organized.
At one point, like many I'm sure, I decided to find out what happened to SRE. Turns out the author, Amit Patel, lost the source code in a hard drive failure in 1996. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp
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Thing is though, it's not really a deterrent to new criminals. They either figure they're too smart to get caught, or it's an emotional crime where they don't stop and think, "Wait, if I do this I might go to prison". I doubt it'll be any more of a deterrent once someone gets out of prison either, sadly. As someone pointed out above, the crime rate hasn't gone down, but has it gone up? Are these inmates re-offending at a higher or lower rate than the national average? That's what I would find interesting (didn't see it in TFA although I did skip some paragraphs).
I like the camera idea, I just don't like the application. I'd prefer a prisoner cam (in their hat.. or whatever) that let you go "with" someone wherever they are to see what they see. I'm sure FOX could afford it..
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My family/friends have mostly quit downloading because I refuse to refer them to (or install) the latest morpheus/limewire/ares/kazaa/genericp2p anymore.
Home prices going down won't cause property taxes to decrease. Your gov't decides how much money it needs and divides that figure by the total value of the properties in the city. That gives the mill rate you are taxed at based on the value of your home. If home prices fall, the mill rate goes up to compensate, since the government still needs the same amount of money to fund operations.
So if the government needs $10,000, and you're the only house in the city (worth $500,000) your mill rate is 0.0200 and you pay $10,000 in property tax. If the government needs $10,000 next year and your house value falls to $480,000 your mill rate is calculated at 0.020833 and you pay $10,000 in property tax.
Totally! I remember gathering my little team up into a semi-circle around the entrance to the first UFO I had encountered in the game.. at night, with the smoke and everything. I was thinking, "crap.. are they inside? are they outside already? I hope they don't have shields and lasers..". That was a great game.
Actually yes, in a fairly significant way I think that having to find people willing to work in those conditions, as cheap as they may be, limits the overall number of active farmer accounts. The costs for space/labour are a limiting factor, even if it seems that they are working for a pittance. If it was possible to just script away, the number of farmer-script accounts would go way up in comparison to the number now.
There was a case in UO a while back where a player had a rack of computers running hundreds (thousands?) of accounts at one time. All script mining on various shards.
I'm torn between my love for sticking it to cheaters, and my hate for spyware. I suffered through the speedhacks and scripters in UO, and every time the developers thought about a process scanner the players went nuts and the idea was dropped. In WoW you sign the terms of conduct each time there's a new patch, so technically you agree to let this warden thing run in the background. Is WoW a better game because of it? Probably.
There are already some big problems with ebay gold farmers.. I'd rather they had to sit at the computer to make their gold, rather than just running a script.
I've had serious stability issues since the last FF release. After 10 minutes of browsing I'm up to 106,340k mem usage and 190,552k VM size (which grew to 110,312k/200,208k while typing this btw). The crashman cometh.
hmm, maybe Hibernia in 1979? or is that too small?
I was under the impression that the problem is that there are not enough refineries to handle the crude that is being produced now. Saudi Arabia could produce an additional 1mbpd but the high-sulfur content makes it difficult for the big players to refine it.
Just wait until winter, when all the diesel that normally gets stockpiled over the summer months isn't around. That should get oil prices moving.
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Just wait until they try to wind it down and suddenly the lawsuits start flying for willful destruction of property.
Isn't that the whole point behind MMORPGs NOT allowing actual ownership in-game? Since if there's a server wipe or something they have no obligations to the players to return all their houses/loot?
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http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/
Targetalert, a Firefox extension that shows a little icon next to links giving an indication of what the target is (pdf, word, excel, ppt, zip, email, xml).
In Canada they market the diamonds mined here as polar diamonds with a laser etched polar bear on the girdle so you know it's rarer and more valueable.. they charge a premium for that. No cheap diamonds here.
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I was that eight year old once. I asked the same question and my dad told me to walk up and ask our minister (Presbyterian) after the service. So I did. He said that god had always been there and that having faith meant believing that god was there, even without knowing it for a fact. I believe I suggested that god probably got bored without any stuff to play with.
I wish I knew then what I know now, so I could have asked something like, "If god is perfect and all that, then why is he allowed to sin (do not worship false idols, for I am a jealous god)?. Is that like do-as-I-say-but-not-as-I-do? and where are all the talking snakes? And if god loves all his creations, how much did he love the dinosaurs? He sure created his way out of that one, cuz Noah would probably have been hard pressed to round them all up".
It's not an asteroid, it's just a mountain that threw itself at the ground and missed.
IMHO (as a geek manager) the biggest mistakes that new managers make are:
1) Doing, when they should be managing
2) Thinking FOR their employees, not ABOUT them
3) Making every decision, not enabling
4) Not thinking ahead
If there's too much work to be done in a crisis, don't pick up all the slack yourself and stop managing, look into hiring a temp.
If every time an employee comes to you with a question you answer it, they won't learn to think for themselves and you'll be constantly bogged down. Ask them what they think, point them in the right direction if they're wrong. It will get them thinking in advance before coming to you and let the more important issues rise to the surface. (do they need more training?)
A big mistake made by new managers is thinking that their job is to approve every decision in the department. Enable your people, so that they know where the limits are. Teach them the basis for decisions and let them make some on their own.
Think in advance about budgets, staff vacation, staff training, staff evaluations & bonuses, etc. This is stuff that you weren't responsible for before and can sneak up on you. If you're caught unprepared by your boss on any of these issues it will make you look bad. "Why is 50% of your staff on vacation when there's a deadline coming up?", "Are you ready to do your mid-year evals?", "Are there any areas your staff is deficient in that require training?".
Finally, clean your desk up at the end of the day. File papers, empty inbox, etc. This might sound stupid, but you at least need to give staff the impression that you're organized.
Just a few tips to get you started..
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That's okay, there's an entire decade of music reels that can be recycled. Finally, a use for 80's music!
It's a play on Gooooooooooooogle, he just forgot to add PWND at the end of his sig.
At one point, like many I'm sure, I decided to find out what happened to SRE. Turns out the author, Amit Patel, lost the source code in a hard drive failure in 1996. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp
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Thing is though, it's not really a deterrent to new criminals. They either figure they're too smart to get caught, or it's an emotional crime where they don't stop and think, "Wait, if I do this I might go to prison". I doubt it'll be any more of a deterrent once someone gets out of prison either, sadly. As someone pointed out above, the crime rate hasn't gone down, but has it gone up? Are these inmates re-offending at a higher or lower rate than the national average? That's what I would find interesting (didn't see it in TFA although I did skip some paragraphs).
I like the camera idea, I just don't like the application. I'd prefer a prisoner cam (in their hat.. or whatever) that let you go "with" someone wherever they are to see what they see. I'm sure FOX could afford it..
UUDDLRLRBA - Wouldn't want to thwart anyone trying to beat Life Force or Contra would we?
missed Winter's Heart. My mistake.
10 books and still no end in sight..
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The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Choas
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Crossroads of Twilight