They also send out a warning that posting any kind of information about leak will result in "having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience"
Slashdot also sent out a warning that posting any kind of information about the leak will result in "having your ISP account's ability to post to Slashdot crippled as we can and we will ban your account from access to vital parts of Slashdot's online experience"
The market value of the Linux kernel, like anything else, is determined by supply and demand. Because of the way it's licensed and the fact that no one company controls the distribution, the supply is basically infinite and so the fair market value is zero.
It's a lot like air, which also has a market value of zero. There's plenty of it to go around even though it's free. Therefore it has no economic value.
Of course, another similarity between Linux and air is that it's really valuable to those who use it. But since there's enough of both to go around for free, no one can make money charging for either one.
I wonder how well "licensed drivers" correlates to "actual drivers" though. For example, when I was in college, I didn't have a car and hardly ever drove, but I still had a drivers license the whole time. Conversely, some people don't bother to get a license (or can't get one, like illegal immigrants in California) but drive anyway. Then there's people like Bush and Cheney that get their licenses suspended/revoked for DWI or whatever. Many of them probably keep driving despite the suspension.
Another thing to point out is that looking at the number of licensed drivers doesn't take into account how many miles people drive. If your commute is 75 miles rather than 2 miles, you still count as one licensed driver.
I still think the phenomenon of more dangerous driving in rural areas is real though. Maybe the causation works the other way though -- as in, bad voting causes bad driving (or bad roads)? After all, it seems to be liberals like Ralph Nader that are more concerned about things like product safety. Maybe voting for Democrats results in safer roads.
I think this would have to be the case. Otherwise, Rush Limbaugh would have to go off the air, 60 minutes couldn't air their interview with the guy that got Bush out of going to Vietam, etc. In fact the entire Fox "news" channel would have to shut down for 2 months before the election. I don't see how this is any different from any other 2 hour TV show that advocates one or the other of the candidates.
It's your predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, that really escalated the war in Vietnam. You just inherited the mess, much as John Kerry will inherit the mess over in Iraq (assuming we don't give the neocons another 4 years).
As for GWB, if he ran against a ficus, I'd vote for the ficus.
BTW, how did you manage to post a slashdot comment from beyond the grave? Since you don't seem to be a Bush supporter, have you considered registering to vote? You should be able to get registered in Chicago.
If he was in management, wouldn't he have more influence which he could use to change things for the better? Just because you have a management position doesn't automatically mean that you believe in the PHB management style.
The problem is with the unintended consequences of the ratings system. In theory, there should be 5 different ratings (G, PG, PG13, R, NC17). In reality, the ratings start to take on meanings other than the ones they were intended to have. For example, G means "kid's movie" and NC17 means "sex" so studios deliberately avoid putting out movies that have these ratings. Sometimes this means adding an expletive or two for the sole purpose of getting the movie up to PG instead of G.
I've heard of the Catholic rating system. One thing they do that the MPAA doesn't is they look at how the sex/violence/whatever is portrayed and not just whether it exists. So if someone gets murdered, but the movie shows the consequences of violence rather than glorifying it, the Catholic system tends to take this into account. Of course, it's all based on the Catholic Church's idea of morality, so movies can also get nailed for things like showing unmarried couples living together, gay/lesbian relationships, etc.
They must be doing something right, though. I believe Gigli was rated "Offensive."
Or across the US/Mexican border, once they find a way to improve the range of these things. There's no way the border patrol could do anything about thousands of them flying into the country. Maybe catch 1% of them and hold a press conference to show off how much weed they caught (while ignoring the other 99% that got through). I can't imagine they'd really be able to do much to stop it.
"We've got some very interesting offerings in the cardboard division," Alberts said, gesturing toward a 200-foot-long aisle of appliance boxes. "Now, it used to be that, in order to get a refrigerator box, you had to search high and low, with no guarantee you'd ever strike gold. No longer. We sell our top-of-the-line, Kenmore 25.5 cubic foot double-door refrigerator boxes right here, only $4.79 each."
Microsoft made almost $10 billion in profits last year. If they can cut $1 billion in expenses, they will be making 10% more profits assuming they don't hurt their revenues in the process. Since investors tend to look at price/earnings ratios when deciding what a stock is worth, we might expect a 10% increase in profits to translate into a 10% increase in stock price. If you own large quantities of Microsoft stock options (as I'm sure everyone in Microsoft senior management does), you'll make a lot of money if the stock price goes up 10%.
A challenge for/. readers -- go buy some gasoline in graduated containers, and check for yourself [avoid 1,5, and 10 gallon sizes; many states use these for testing purposes and the computers inside the pumps 'catch up' temporarily at these intervals].
All right, from now on, whenever I buy gas, I'll make sure to buy exactly 5.000 gallons:-) I don't want to get ripped off.
But when you sell it on ebay, how can you be sure that the buyer will recycle it? I don't think my conscience could take that kind of uncertainty, so I'm going with Dell's offer.
Remember "reduce, reuse, recycle?" The idea is that it's better to do the things earlier in the list if you can, i.e. recycling a document you printed at work is good, but reusing it by writing notes on the back is better, and reducing your usage by setting the printer to duplex mode is even better still.
Or, in this case, it's better to sell your Ipod on Ebay to someone who will reuse it instead of selling it to Dell, who will recycle it. "Reduce" is of course not an option when we're talking about Ipods.
If you RTFA (yeah right), WMI is the first three digits of the VIN and identifies the manufacturer. Apparently US manufactureres can only use about a thousand of these, even though there should be 31^3 = 29,791 total possibilities. A lot of those combinations are probably going unused; why not use them first before doing things like adding digits that will require major changes to the system?
The article talks about taking WMIs from countries that aren't using them, but doesn't really say if there's WMIs out there that aren't really assigned to anyone.
Economist right wing? I find that a little hardtobelieve. This is not a magazine that is afraid to criticize the Bushies (on the other hand, sometimes they have good things to say about Republicans too).
I read The Economist. The articles are well-written and insightful and, since it's published in London, you get a non-US perspective which is hard to find these days. Also, it doesn't try to be exclusively conservative or liberal (not that there's anything wrong with that -- I read Salon too).
They do tend to see free-market capitalism as the cure for everything. I don't really have a problem with this (in fact, market-based solutions often work in places you might not expect them to), but it's something to keep in mind when you read the magazine.
If the labels get to write off the full retail value of CDs that they donate, why would a record label ever pay any taxes at all?
Corporate income tax rates are around 35%. So the tax deduction on a "$20 CD" would be $7. It costs a lot less than $7 to manufacture a CD.
Therefore: A record label with $1 billion in profits could just crank out an extra 50 million CDs, donate them to schools or whatever, and have no taxable income. That's nice for the libraries, but should the federal government be (in effect) spending $350 million in taxpayer money to buy CDs from the RIAA?
This is the corporate equivalent of donating your piece of crap undriveable car to charity and then telling the IRS it was worth $5,000.
True, the company has the right to do whatever they want in this area. But it's not a very smart thing to do from the company's perspective. Why not? It makes the work environment less pleasant (making it harder to hire/retain workers) without doing anything to increase the company's ability to make a profit. A company whose management is worried about what screen saver its employees use is focused on the wrong things.
To put it another way that PHBs might be able to understand: One way to keep productive employees from leaving the company is to raise everyone's pay 10%. A much cheaper way is to eliminate any company policy that is annoying/wastes people's time without doing anything to bring in more revenues.
Don't implement policies for the sake of implementing policies. Have a reason. It's not that you don't have the right to implement stupid policies. You can have a required weekly department meeting at 2:30am on Saturdays if you want. Just remember that some of the things you have the right to do as a business owner will hurt your business if you do them.
They can already trace you using your cell phone. Even if you turn your phone off, they could track your gas purchases if you use a credit/debit card. Even if they don't do these things, what's to stop them from installing cameras along the highway and using your license plate to track you? In fact, if you drive on toll roads (or toll bridges) they're already doing this.
I wouldn't worry about the government using wifi to track you. Unlike the other methods, all they could get would be your mac address (and maybe a list of the sites you visited) anyway. Of course you were joking:) Mod parent +1 funny.
Since many of you visiting this thread were born after it was posted, I thought I'd tell you something about what 1969 is like (or 1970 for those of you east of the Prime Meridian):
We are losing soldiers every day in an unpopular, unnecessary war halfway around the world. Millions of people have turned out in protests against the war. We will face a global energy crisis within the next decade. History is being made in the area of space exploration. We have a dishonest Republican president whose administration is (or will be) tarnished by scandal. The world's biggest computer company is an evil monopoly that everyone hates.
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They also send out a warning that posting any kind of information about leak will result in "having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience"
Slashdot also sent out a warning that posting any kind of information about the leak will result in "having your ISP account's ability to post to Slashdot crippled as we can and we will ban your account from access to vital parts of Slashdot's online experience"
The market value of the Linux kernel, like anything else, is determined by supply and demand. Because of the way it's licensed and the fact that no one company controls the distribution, the supply is basically infinite and so the fair market value is zero.
It's a lot like air, which also has a market value of zero. There's plenty of it to go around even though it's free. Therefore it has no economic value.
Of course, another similarity between Linux and air is that it's really valuable to those who use it. But since there's enough of both to go around for free, no one can make money charging for either one.
I wonder how well "licensed drivers" correlates to "actual drivers" though. For example, when I was in college, I didn't have a car and hardly ever drove, but I still had a drivers license the whole time. Conversely, some people don't bother to get a license (or can't get one, like illegal immigrants in California) but drive anyway. Then there's people like Bush and Cheney that get their licenses suspended/revoked for DWI or whatever. Many of them probably keep driving despite the suspension.
Another thing to point out is that looking at the number of licensed drivers doesn't take into account how many miles people drive. If your commute is 75 miles rather than 2 miles, you still count as one licensed driver.
I still think the phenomenon of more dangerous driving in rural areas is real though. Maybe the causation works the other way though -- as in, bad voting causes bad driving (or bad roads)? After all, it seems to be liberals like Ralph Nader that are more concerned about things like product safety. Maybe voting for Democrats results in safer roads.
/* Television spin detector. Output is an integer between 1 and 5, where 5 indicates the maximum level of spin and 1 indicates the minimum */
if (channel.type == NEWS)
{
if (channel.network == FOXNEWS) spin = 5;
else spin = 4;
}
else
{
if DetectPolitician() spin = 5;
else if DetectAnnCoulter() spin = 5;
else if DetectMichaelMoore() spin = 5;
else if DetectSlashdotUser() spin = 3;
else if (CalculateBuzzwordBingoScore() > 0.7) spin = 4;
else spin = 1;
}
return spin;
Does Photoshop have a "create fake typewritten document" feature?
I think this would have to be the case. Otherwise, Rush Limbaugh would have to go off the air, 60 minutes couldn't air their interview with the guy that got Bush out of going to Vietam, etc. In fact the entire Fox "news" channel would have to shut down for 2 months before the election. I don't see how this is any different from any other 2 hour TV show that advocates one or the other of the candidates.
Mr. Nixon -
It's your predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, that really escalated the war in Vietnam. You just inherited the mess, much as John Kerry will inherit the mess over in Iraq (assuming we don't give the neocons another 4 years).
As for GWB, if he ran against a ficus, I'd vote for the ficus.
BTW, how did you manage to post a slashdot comment from beyond the grave? Since you don't seem to be a Bush supporter, have you considered registering to vote? You should be able to get registered in Chicago.
If he was in management, wouldn't he have more influence which he could use to change things for the better? Just because you have a management position doesn't automatically mean that you believe in the PHB management style.
The problem is with the unintended consequences of the ratings system. In theory, there should be 5 different ratings (G, PG, PG13, R, NC17). In reality, the ratings start to take on meanings other than the ones they were intended to have. For example, G means "kid's movie" and NC17 means "sex" so studios deliberately avoid putting out movies that have these ratings. Sometimes this means adding an expletive or two for the sole purpose of getting the movie up to PG instead of G.
I've heard of the Catholic rating system. One thing they do that the MPAA doesn't is they look at how the sex/violence/whatever is portrayed and not just whether it exists. So if someone gets murdered, but the movie shows the consequences of violence rather than glorifying it, the Catholic system tends to take this into account. Of course, it's all based on the Catholic Church's idea of morality, so movies can also get nailed for things like showing unmarried couples living together, gay/lesbian relationships, etc.
They must be doing something right, though. I believe Gigli was rated "Offensive."
Or across the US/Mexican border, once they find a way to improve the range of these things. There's no way the border patrol could do anything about thousands of them flying into the country. Maybe catch 1% of them and hold a press conference to show off how much weed they caught (while ignoring the other 99% that got through). I can't imagine they'd really be able to do much to stop it.
Infinite miles per gallon, if you fly the right aircraft.
If you live in a state with a high state income tax rate , you might be able to itemize even if you don't own a house. It's worth checking.
Sorry, your idea has already been taken.
"We've got some very interesting offerings in the cardboard division," Alberts said, gesturing toward a 200-foot-long aisle of appliance boxes. "Now, it used to be that, in order to get a refrigerator box, you had to search high and low, with no guarantee you'd ever strike gold. No longer. We sell our top-of-the-line, Kenmore 25.5 cubic foot double-door refrigerator boxes right here, only $4.79 each."
Microsoft made almost $10 billion in profits last year. If they can cut $1 billion in expenses, they will be making 10% more profits assuming they don't hurt their revenues in the process. Since investors tend to look at price/earnings ratios when deciding what a stock is worth, we might expect a 10% increase in profits to translate into a 10% increase in stock price. If you own large quantities of Microsoft stock options (as I'm sure everyone in Microsoft senior management does), you'll make a lot of money if the stock price goes up 10%.
Hey, I'd settle for something that worked on AM radio, so I could shut up the guy in the pickup truck with a gun rack listening to Limbaugh.
Ghana, in particular, has done this as they believe that increased exposure to the outside world will help encourage its citizens to become literate.
I take it Ghana has never heard of AOL.
A challenge for /. readers -- go buy some gasoline in graduated containers, and check for yourself [avoid 1,5, and 10 gallon sizes; many states use these for testing purposes and the computers inside the pumps 'catch up' temporarily at these intervals].
:-)
All right, from now on, whenever I buy gas, I'll make sure to buy exactly 5.000 gallons
I don't want to get ripped off.
But when you sell it on ebay, how can you be sure that the buyer will recycle it? I don't think my conscience could take that kind of uncertainty, so I'm going with Dell's offer.
Remember "reduce, reuse, recycle?" The idea is that it's better to do the things earlier in the list if you can, i.e. recycling a document you printed at work is good, but reusing it by writing notes on the back is better, and reducing your usage by setting the printer to duplex mode is even better still.
Or, in this case, it's better to sell your Ipod on Ebay to someone who will reuse it instead of selling it to Dell, who will recycle it. "Reduce" is of course not an option when we're talking about Ipods.
If you RTFA (yeah right), WMI is the first three digits of the VIN and identifies the manufacturer. Apparently US manufactureres can only use about a thousand of these, even though there should be 31^3 = 29,791 total possibilities. A lot of those combinations are probably going unused; why not use them first before doing things like adding digits that will require major changes to the system?
The article talks about taking WMIs from countries that aren't using them, but doesn't really say if there's WMIs out there that aren't really assigned to anyone.
Economist right wing? I find that a little hard to believe. This is not a magazine that is afraid to criticize the Bushies (on the other hand, sometimes they have good things to say about Republicans too).
I read The Economist. The articles are well-written and insightful and, since it's published in London, you get a non-US perspective which is hard to find these days. Also, it doesn't try to be exclusively conservative or liberal (not that there's anything wrong with that -- I read Salon too).
They do tend to see free-market capitalism as the cure for everything. I don't really have a problem with this (in fact, market-based solutions often work in places you might not expect them to), but it's something to keep in mind when you read the magazine.
If the labels get to write off the full retail value of CDs that they donate, why would a record label ever pay any taxes at all?
Corporate income tax rates are around 35%. So the tax deduction on a "$20 CD" would be $7. It costs a lot less than $7 to manufacture a CD.
Therefore: A record label with $1 billion in profits could just crank out an extra 50 million CDs, donate them to schools or whatever, and have no taxable income. That's nice for the libraries, but should the federal government be (in effect) spending $350 million in taxpayer money to buy CDs from the RIAA?
This is the corporate equivalent of donating your piece of crap undriveable car to charity and then telling the IRS it was worth $5,000.
True, the company has the right to do whatever they want in this area. But it's not a very smart thing to do from the company's perspective. Why not? It makes the work environment less pleasant (making it harder to hire/retain workers) without doing anything to increase the company's ability to make a profit. A company whose management is worried about what screen saver its employees use is focused on the wrong things.
To put it another way that PHBs might be able to understand: One way to keep productive employees from leaving the company is to raise everyone's pay 10%. A much cheaper way is to eliminate any company policy that is annoying/wastes people's time without doing anything to bring in more revenues.
Don't implement policies for the sake of implementing policies. Have a reason. It's not that you don't have the right to implement stupid policies. You can have a required weekly department meeting at 2:30am on Saturdays if you want. Just remember that some of the things you have the right to do as a business owner will hurt your business if you do them.
They can already trace you using your cell phone. Even if you turn your phone off, they could track your gas purchases if you use a credit/debit card. Even if they don't do these things, what's to stop them from installing cameras along the highway and using your license plate to track you? In fact, if you drive on toll roads (or toll bridges) they're already doing this.
:) Mod parent +1 funny.
I wouldn't worry about the government using wifi to track you. Unlike the other methods, all they could get would be your mac address (and maybe a list of the sites you visited) anyway. Of course you were joking
Since many of you visiting this thread were born after it was posted, I thought I'd tell you something about what 1969 is like (or 1970 for those of you east of the Prime Meridian):
We are losing soldiers every day in an unpopular, unnecessary war halfway around the world. Millions of people have turned out in protests against the war. We will face a global energy crisis within the next decade. History is being made in the area of space exploration. We have a dishonest Republican president whose administration is (or will be) tarnished by scandal. The world's biggest computer company is an evil monopoly that everyone hates.