A longer answer is that there's this lovely little checkbox you can mark on your user preference page to make sure you never, ever, ever, see articles like this again. If they upset you so, YOU MIGHT AVAIL YOURSELF OF THE THIRTY SECONDS OR SO IT MIGHT TAKE FOR YOU TO CLICK THAT CHECKBOX AND HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON! Or are you just bitching because you don't like the political viewpoint supposedly espoused by the article and don't want to take the time to defend your political views? Either way, you're obviously lazy and perhaps stupid to boot...
Yes. The growth rate has dropped preciptously in the past three years. And we know that continually dropping growth rates eventually lead to negative growth. It's amazing how insightful you were! Of course, some folks look at this series and "have faith" that all trees can grow forever. How astute of you to notice otherwise!
Voting for them is basically a vote for the status quo.
I'll vote for the match vs. the flame thrower any day. At least with the match I have a chance of controlling the fire.
Do the Democrats who voted for Nader and the Greens really think we're no worse off under the current regime? If they do, I know they're too stupid to run a country.
Stupid Libertarians might think there's no difference, but every body count increase I see from Iraq tells me there's a hell of a difference.
The fact is that Al Gore might have got hit on 9/11 (keyword is might - it's pretty clear that had he been elected, his Attorney General might have been more interested in policing potential terrorists than in covering up nekkid statues), but he would have limited the retaliation to the Taliban in Afghanistan and put qualified people in there to nation build. Right now, because of this administration's stupid adventurism, we not only are in the midst of an escalating civil war in Iraq but, because our troops are occupied there, we are seeing our gains in Afghanistan slipping away.
So to all of you Greens and Libs that "see no difference", just remember that when the next body bag comes home.
P.S. To all of the apologists who say "but the Dems voted to go to Iraq, too," I really don't want to get into a long, long, long pissing match. Let's just say that history will show that the Iraq adventure was prety much all Bush's and the Neocon's thing.
... Celine Dion. Oh yeah... and Alanis Morissette, too. And Rush? OK, maybe the Guess Who still have a couple of compilation CD's. That should be it... But think of the poor Celine Dion!
...they need to be more honest and open in the marketplace for the market to do its job.
And that job would be?
As far as I know, other than a few shares squirrelled away for future needs and the options for its employees, Google has no particular reason to make its share price go up any further than it is now. Nor is it clear that releasing quarterly estimates would help them to do so.
If they were smart, they'd do even more to decouple themselves from the "market" and tell the "Street" to s*ck it. Replace the employees' options with stock grants and encourage them to sell. Sell the founders' shares. The best play Google could make with respect to its long term health would be to get out of the market altogether and not worry about what the bottom feeders who inhabit that zone think.
"Oh!" but you cry, "What if they ever needed to raise more cash?"
Well, what of it? If they really ever needed to again, they could float another issue. As long as the sharks sensed they could make a dime, they'd buy again, bad reputation with the analysts or not.
The bottom line is that, right now, the stock market needs a winner like Google a hell of a lot more than Google needs a stock market.
...trust me ACM does not represent computer manufacturers.
Yes. But as a long time member, I can tell you they do represent CS/CompE academics. And who gets downsized when no one wants to get a degree in CS? You got it - CS/CompE academics. So don't you think they have a bit of a vested interest in making the IT job market look better? You bet.
BTW, this is not a slam on the ACM - I've been a happy member for twenty-odd years and liked a lot of their journals, but as far as being unbiased? Well, let's just say everybody has an agenda. Even me - I've been somewhat peeved at them ever since they dumbed down CACM in the late 70's.
if something is wrong, build a bubble of illusion around it, repackage it and sell it for profit, by no means address the problem or gasp fix it! Can it become more naive and simplistic than that?
Well, it's not necessarily an American mentality as much as this administration's mentality. After all, they don't believe in the validty of the "reality-based" community (I'd link to the original, but the NYTimes wants to charge for everything, these days). Theirs is the attitude and hubris that will eventually bring about the downfall of our once great country.
Just like their friends, the corporate Masters of the Universe at Enron, they think that their spin is reality. And they'll keep on believing it until someone bites them in the ass. So, Jihadis, let me give you a clue - if you want to make an impression on these morons, rioting in your own countries won't make a difference - they don't care! Doing anything to our country won't make any impression on them either - they don't care and they'll just spin it to make you look bad to the rest of us! The only way to get through to them is to bite them and their friends - personally - in the ass again and again until they get the message. Just try not to take out too many innocents while you're at it - it makes you look bad (I think a few suitcase nukes in the middle of the Saudis' main oilfields would probably make a *big* impression with a minimal loss of life, given how close Prince Bandar is with them, huh? Just give me a couple of weeks notice so I can load up on oil futures first, OK?). Have a nice Jihad...
I'm looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Audio and video support is basically the meat of Linux on the desktop and the source of much frustration for new users who "can't get their soundcard working". O'Reilly comes through for the Linux community yet again!
Well, I'm looking forward to the day when you don't need a f*cking book to get audio and video support running on Linux. The Linux community has screwed the usability pooch again!
Do people just not know or care what really good sound reproduction is?
In general, no. Once most people get past the point of having large chunks of disposible time (read kids, house, etc.) music can no longer be the center of their lives and so becomes background to listen to while one is engaged in more mundane tasks. That, plus the fact that ambient noise levels have risen considerably in the past few years make it less likely that audio quality would be a driving factor in most people's purchasing decisions. When you couple that with the fact that popular music production has now been channelled towards low-fi reproduction with tons of compression added and the fact that the audiophile community has never accounted for more than 1% or so of the market means that you're going to look quite far for high-quality digital downloads (though it might make a really good niche market - the lossless audio download store, huh?).
How come internet companies have to stay out but Wal*mat gets slave labor?
It's not slave labor. The prison workers are only paying off the costs of their incarceration. We have a similar system here in the US regarding restitution. Why do you think that telemarketers use cons for calls? The only difference is the pittence the prisoner gets to keep.
I'm not saying it's right in either place, though...
If you're so afraid of being killed by terrorists that you will consistently choose safety before your own personal freedoms then those who wish to destroy our nation have already won.
I agree. Why are the politicians (and mainly the macho Republican ones at that) such cowardly pussies? Next time I'm at a family gathering, I intend to use this point against my idiot conservative brother by telling him to watch out for terrorists each time he opens a cabinet or drawer.
Ignorance and incompetence. The only question is how much more damage we'll take before 2008?
Well, what did you expect. For the last twenty years the Republican mantra has been "Government doesn't work!" How long did you think it would take for some Norquist-driven genius to move from that ideology to one of "Let's nake sure government doesn't work!" Anyone who thinks that there were not qualified Republicans able to run these departments is a complete f*ckwit. Anyone who can't see that this goes beyond incompetance to sabotage has blinders on.
As a Republican I'm joining with independents and Democrats to run all these fuckers out of office, then, hopefully, we can start engaging in meaningful discussions during the years we're going to spend cleaning up the mess that's going to be left behind.
When I was younger, the library in my town had a lot of Bob Denver and classical music that I wasn't interested in at the time.
I think you mean John Denver. Remember
Bob Denver = Gilligan/Maynard G. Krebs
John Denver=Rocky Mountain High/noted pilot
If Bob Denver ever made an album, it was probably a specialty album like Gilligan Sings the Hits (with Mary Ann) or Maynard G. Krebs' Favorite Bongo Solos. Though if your library did have a selection including stuff like that, it would be pretty cool.
And doing genetic research that's destructive to society because it has a possibilty of cheapening life.
Well, I can't think of any research you could do that would cheapen life any more than most of the policies of this administration. After all, we'll let thousands of people perish in New Orleans, screw up getting elderly people the drugs they need, kill tens of thousands of innocent folks in Iraq, and propose new legislation that lets the insurance companies jack up costs for sick and old folks so companies can spend less giving employees less insurance protection. Oh yeah, and there's that whole "global warming" thing. How many will that eventually kill? Cheapen life? That's a joke.
As an aside, has anyone else noticed that the people who are most afraid of terrorism are the ones who live where there is the absolute lowest chance of being targeted?
Yeah. That's because their kids haved moved into the target zones because they couldn't find jobs in the backwoods s**tholes they grew up in.
But outside NY, DC, Chicago, LA, SF, and (maybe) Seattle, Atlanta, and Denver, does anyone really think their town is ground zero for terror? I really laugh when I see politicians in Missoula and Peoria going on about how they must be prepared for terrorism! Well, I laugh until I see a bunch of morons lapping this crap up. Here in Portland (you may now discount me as being a lib'ral) I'm a lot more worried about home-grown wackos like McVeigh and Nichols (or even the ELF) than I am about Al Quaeda (and I sure as heck don't lose a lot of sleep over them, either).
It's time we faced facts and realized that the "War on Terror" is simply the latest in the long set of wars on nouns used to allow politicians to posture menacingly for the cameras.
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Why not? It's the data and binaries in the payroll system that need to be secure, not the source code.
Ithink you meant this one.
A longer answer is that there's this lovely little checkbox you can mark on your user preference page to make sure you never, ever, ever, see articles like this again. If they upset you so, YOU MIGHT AVAIL YOURSELF OF THE THIRTY SECONDS OR SO IT MIGHT TAKE FOR YOU TO CLICK THAT CHECKBOX AND HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON! Or are you just bitching because you don't like the political viewpoint supposedly espoused by the article and don't want to take the time to defend your political views? Either way, you're obviously lazy and perhaps stupid to boot...
Yes. The growth rate has dropped preciptously in the past three years. And we know that continually dropping growth rates eventually lead to negative growth. It's amazing how insightful you were! Of course, some folks look at this series and "have faith" that all trees can grow forever. How astute of you to notice otherwise!
I'll vote for the match vs. the flame thrower any day. At least with the match I have a chance of controlling the fire.
Do the Democrats who voted for Nader and the Greens really think we're no worse off under the current regime? If they do, I know they're too stupid to run a country.
Stupid Libertarians might think there's no difference, but every body count increase I see from Iraq tells me there's a hell of a difference.
The fact is that Al Gore might have got hit on 9/11 (keyword is might - it's pretty clear that had he been elected, his Attorney General might have been more interested in policing potential terrorists than in covering up nekkid statues), but he would have limited the retaliation to the Taliban in Afghanistan and put qualified people in there to nation build. Right now, because of this administration's stupid adventurism, we not only are in the midst of an escalating civil war in Iraq but, because our troops are occupied there, we are seeing our gains in Afghanistan slipping away.
So to all of you Greens and Libs that "see no difference", just remember that when the next body bag comes home.
P.S. To all of the apologists who say "but the Dems voted to go to Iraq, too," I really don't want to get into a long, long, long pissing match. Let's just say that history will show that the Iraq adventure was prety much all Bush's and the Neocon's thing.
... when they do bowling in space. That'll be worth watching when it hits another satellite.
... Celine Dion. Oh yeah... and Alanis Morissette, too. And Rush? OK, maybe the Guess Who still have a couple of compilation CD's. That should be it... But think of the poor Celine Dion!
And that job would be?
As far as I know, other than a few shares squirrelled away for future needs and the options for its employees, Google has no particular reason to make its share price go up any further than it is now. Nor is it clear that releasing quarterly estimates would help them to do so.
If they were smart, they'd do even more to decouple themselves from the "market" and tell the "Street" to s*ck it. Replace the employees' options with stock grants and encourage them to sell. Sell the founders' shares. The best play Google could make with respect to its long term health would be to get out of the market altogether and not worry about what the bottom feeders who inhabit that zone think.
"Oh!" but you cry, "What if they ever needed to raise more cash?"
Well, what of it? If they really ever needed to again, they could float another issue. As long as the sharks sensed they could make a dime, they'd buy again, bad reputation with the analysts or not.
The bottom line is that, right now, the stock market needs a winner like Google a hell of a lot more than Google needs a stock market.
Well, given their performance they're either morons or evil. Being nice folks, we Democrats would like to give them the benefit of the doubt.
And usually these clerical staff were young women with short skirts. So tell me how we've made progress?
Yes. But as a long time member, I can tell you they do represent CS/CompE academics. And who gets downsized when no one wants to get a degree in CS? You got it - CS/CompE academics. So don't you think they have a bit of a vested interest in making the IT job market look better? You bet.
BTW, this is not a slam on the ACM - I've been a happy member for twenty-odd years and liked a lot of their journals, but as far as being unbiased? Well, let's just say everybody has an agenda. Even me - I've been somewhat peeved at them ever since they dumbed down CACM in the late 70's.
OK. See ya! We really don't need people here that are too stupid to set their user prefs not to see these stories...
Well, it's not necessarily an American mentality as much as this administration's mentality. After all, they don't believe in the validty of the "reality-based" community (I'd link to the original, but the NYTimes wants to charge for everything, these days). Theirs is the attitude and hubris that will eventually bring about the downfall of our once great country.
Just like their friends, the corporate Masters of the Universe at Enron, they think that their spin is reality. And they'll keep on believing it until someone bites them in the ass. So, Jihadis, let me give you a clue - if you want to make an impression on these morons, rioting in your own countries won't make a difference - they don't care! Doing anything to our country won't make any impression on them either - they don't care and they'll just spin it to make you look bad to the rest of us! The only way to get through to them is to bite them and their friends - personally - in the ass again and again until they get the message. Just try not to take out too many innocents while you're at it - it makes you look bad (I think a few suitcase nukes in the middle of the Saudis' main oilfields would probably make a *big* impression with a minimal loss of life, given how close Prince Bandar is with them, huh? Just give me a couple of weeks notice so I can load up on oil futures first, OK?). Have a nice Jihad...
Just broadcast Fox News over there.
Well, I'm looking forward to the day when you don't need a f*cking book to get audio and video support running on Linux. The Linux community has screwed the usability pooch again!
In general, no. Once most people get past the point of having large chunks of disposible time (read kids, house, etc.) music can no longer be the center of their lives and so becomes background to listen to while one is engaged in more mundane tasks. That, plus the fact that ambient noise levels have risen considerably in the past few years make it less likely that audio quality would be a driving factor in most people's purchasing decisions. When you couple that with the fact that popular music production has now been channelled towards low-fi reproduction with tons of compression added and the fact that the audiophile community has never accounted for more than 1% or so of the market means that you're going to look quite far for high-quality digital downloads (though it might make a really good niche market - the lossless audio download store, huh?).
No thanks. I've had plenty today...
It's not slave labor. The prison workers are only paying off the costs of their incarceration. We have a similar system here in the US regarding restitution. Why do you think that telemarketers use cons for calls? The only difference is the pittence the prisoner gets to keep.
I'm not saying it's right in either place, though...
I agree. Why are the politicians (and mainly the macho Republican ones at that) such cowardly pussies? Next time I'm at a family gathering, I intend to use this point against my idiot conservative brother by telling him to watch out for terrorists each time he opens a cabinet or drawer.
Well, what did you expect. For the last twenty years the Republican mantra has been "Government doesn't work!" How long did you think it would take for some Norquist-driven genius to move from that ideology to one of "Let's nake sure government doesn't work!" Anyone who thinks that there were not qualified Republicans able to run these departments is a complete f*ckwit. Anyone who can't see that this goes beyond incompetance to sabotage has blinders on.
As a Republican I'm joining with independents and Democrats to run all these fuckers out of office, then, hopefully, we can start engaging in meaningful discussions during the years we're going to spend cleaning up the mess that's going to be left behind.
Well, it's sure taken you f*ckers enough time...
I think you mean John Denver. Remember
Bob Denver = Gilligan/Maynard G. Krebs
John Denver=Rocky Mountain High/noted pilot
If Bob Denver ever made an album, it was probably a specialty album like Gilligan Sings the Hits (with Mary Ann) or Maynard G. Krebs' Favorite Bongo Solos. Though if your library did have a selection including stuff like that, it would be pretty cool.
Well, I can't think of any research you could do that would cheapen life any more than most of the policies of this administration. After all, we'll let thousands of people perish in New Orleans, screw up getting elderly people the drugs they need, kill tens of thousands of innocent folks in Iraq, and propose new legislation that lets the insurance companies jack up costs for sick and old folks so companies can spend less giving employees less insurance protection. Oh yeah, and there's that whole "global warming" thing. How many will that eventually kill? Cheapen life? That's a joke.
After all, he already declared his undying love to us developers, developers, developers!
Yeah. That's because their kids haved moved into the target zones because they couldn't find jobs in the backwoods s**tholes they grew up in.
But outside NY, DC, Chicago, LA, SF, and (maybe) Seattle, Atlanta, and Denver, does anyone really think their town is ground zero for terror? I really laugh when I see politicians in Missoula and Peoria going on about how they must be prepared for terrorism! Well, I laugh until I see a bunch of morons lapping this crap up. Here in Portland (you may now discount me as being a lib'ral) I'm a lot more worried about home-grown wackos like McVeigh and Nichols (or even the ELF) than I am about Al Quaeda (and I sure as heck don't lose a lot of sleep over them, either).
It's time we faced facts and realized that the "War on Terror" is simply the latest in the long set of wars on nouns used to allow politicians to posture menacingly for the cameras.