You should probably be figuring in the cost of her computer, software, printer, consumables, tax software, and office space (even if it's in your house - if it's "dedicated", then it's an office and you count it, the maintenance, local taxes, rent, etc - usually as a percent based on square feet).
If you've been neglecting this, you can ammend your return for up to 3 years (IRS can get for problems up to 10 - isn't that sweet), so if you've not been counting these things, you might want to consult an accountant.
False, unfounded beliefs should be met with derision.
Right... because the best way to get someone to examine a belief and possibly change it in the face of evidence is by ridiculing them. It certainly works well with Christians and Muslims./sarcasm
4. the New-ager/Far Left wing hippie types that believe the gov and science is out to get them.
Actually, most of the "the government is out to get me" people I know are right-wingers and libertarians. Of the people I know that won't vaccinate, all but one of them are of that variety. The one that is a hippie liberal is against most artificial things like vaccinations, but also including things like pesticides, growth hormones, chemical fertilizers (rather than good old bullshit), etc.
Both ends are a little "out there" for me, but I'm more afraid of right-wing wackos than left-wing wackos. The right-wingers tend to kill people when they get upset, lefties just get stoned.
The Da Vinci Code was a nice read. But after reading Angels & Demons, and Digital Fortress, I determined he uses this basic formula:
A good-looking, but slightly dorky middle-aged professor meets a good-looking, slightly aloof, smart woman (crypto-analyst, scientist) struggling in a man's world, because of a murder committed by a secret society (Vatican, NSA, Knight's Templar) in order to hide a secret that could unravel the fabric of society as we know it. The professor and the woman save the day, but only after being double-crossed by someone they trust, and go on to have crazy monkey sex in an exotic location.
It kind of makes the other books a bit predictable.
None whatsoever, the client should retain the copyright. The developers have already capitalised on their effort by being paid. Rephrased, the question is more like "What's the most profitable way to avoid giving the client what they paid us to create?"
That's not necessarily the case. Suppose the developer has built a library of routines that are particularly suited to a common job, such as a database for doing a "balanced scorecard". I'm contracting with them now and they'd like to use their core library to make the project go faster with fewer bugs. Sure, I get rights to the code they produce, but they don't want to allow me to distribute their library code to others.
This is pretty much the situation I'm in right now. The agreement we have is that we are co-owners in the IP of the project. The basics are: - neither of us can release the code to the outside world without approval from the other - we can use the code without restriction in our corporation and our subsidiaries - they can use the code in other projects with permission and as long as there is no connection or mention of us - they cannot use us in any promotional material ("___ corp used us, and you should too")
It keeps us from going to into business against them, and it keeps them from taking our "trade secrets" to our competitors.
It works well for both of us because there is actually some co-development going on with the project.
I'm not making an argument against solar cells. I actually think they are probably a good idea in many cases.
But too often, an idea for "clean energy" is just pushing the dirt somewhere else. Take hydrogen powered cars for example. Sure, they have practically zero emisions out the tailpipw. But, somewhere there is an electricity plant burning more coal and gas (or nuke/hydro), producing more waste there, to crack the hydrogen to drive the car. People/The Press/etc tend to very often just look at one part of the system and say it's better/cleaner/more efficient, without looking what is happening in the whole system. I see it all the time in all kinds of business situations... each part driving for a local optimum - which drives the system away from an overall optimum.
As for this battery thing, it's probably even worse than solar cells.
More importantly, I'll take $10,000 worth of solar panels before spending money on a system that simply rearranges when I get my electricity from a polluting power plant.
Don't forget to take into account the energy used, and pollution and toxic waste generated by making those solar panels. You want to make sure you're not just pushing your pollution away from the power plant and into a factory.
It would be nice to prepare for meetings and such, but most of my work is "work"... as in with my computer, plugged into the work network. And our transit isn't conducive to that. During "rush" times, it's pretty packed and seats are rarely available.
I'd read books (for pleasure), but I already have enough eye-strain. But ultimately, my biggest problem is lack of sleep. I'm a night-person and getting up an hour earlier than I have to just leaves me even sleepier during the day and less effective.
I'm planning to move within walking distance from work within the next year, which will solve the problem. But for now, I drive because it's the best option.
Wow! I live in Portland, where there's supposed to be "great public transit". I live 1 block from a light-rail (we call it "MAX" station and my employer has a shuttle-bus from the station that is nearest to them.
I live 12 miles from work and can get door to door in about 25 minutes when I drive.
If I take the MAX, it takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.
It makes me wonder if mass transit really does any good.
I've gotten really lucky in my current job. I just got a new boss who was transferred from our European Office. He allows me a great deal of flexibility in my schedule (he already thinks I work too much - especially when I'm e-mailing with our European and Asian groups from home at night), and is always encouraging me to leave early or take days off.
It's very refreshing to work for someone who is so enlightened. Forcing people to work during specific hours does not mean they are more productive or efficient.
Is his schedule any worse than the boss that is out for weeks at a time on business trips?
If having a wonky schedule is the worst thing a "shitty" boss has done for you, then I think you're doing pretty well. Try one that:
- berates you in front of other people
- takes credit for your good work
- blames you when explaining to their superiors why something they were tasked with didn't happen
- actively works to undercut any chance of advancement into other departments
- denies you the chance to work on a fulfilling project for no good reason
- tells you to do something one way, then publicly tries to humiliate you for not doing it the way they "really meant"
- knows they have to have you do a certain task for them for weeks, but waits until mere hours before the board presentation before actually telling you they need the work done
- demands you cancel a vacation (family reunion) that you've planned for months, along with work contingencies, just because they MIGHT need you to help with a board presentation
- parks his car in the short-term parking at the airport for a 2 week business trip because he was too lazy to park in long term (or take a cab/limo), and then claims we don't have enough money in the budget for essential things like replacing broken computers
Those things make for a shitty boss. A wonky schedule is not so bad - and in fact, probably indicates that I might get some flexibility in my own schedule - which is something I value a lot.
As for commuting, my current situation works well. I often work from home in the mornings until 9:30 or 10:0 and then drive to work. I can sit and answer e-mails from anywhere. With the delay on coming in, I get a nice short commute and I'm a happy worker.
In the early 50s Freud's psychotherapeutic approaches were sweeping America, even to the point where the CIA was trying to use it for mass-control of the population. Although these alarming mind-control experiments had limited success at best, there were some notable successes, particularly in promotion.
A place where it proved successful was in the unassuming kitchens of middle-class families. Betty Crocker Foods had produced an instant cake-mix. All you needed to do was to add water to the supplied powder. By today's standards, the result was probably quite unpalatable, but then, it was something of a miracle.
The problem was that the miracle mixture did not sell. Undaunted, Betty turned to the new science of psychoanalysis to help solve the problem.
The conclusion of the psychoanalysts that she employed was that the although the average American housewife very much appreciated the convenience of the cake mix, she felt guilty at deceiving her husband and other guests into thinking she had worked hard for them when, in fact, she had done very little work.
Their answer: add an egg.
An egg also has the connotation of life and birth, making the creation of the cake more meaningful -- the housewife thus 'gives birth' for her husband.
Changing the recipe to add an egg to the mixture (which was suitably modified to make space for one egg's worth of protein and cholesterol) offered the guilty housewife a way out. By doing more than adding water, by adding a real ingredient, she could assuage her guilt.
The result: sales soared.
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Was it all so Freudian? Were the housewives feeling guilty? Maybe -- but there are other explanations. For example:
* Eggs are known for their nutritional value. Adding nutrition would seem to result in a better cake.
* It may assuage guilt to add an egg, but the Freudian 'birth' stuff could be theoretical nonsense.
* Doing work adds investment to the process, thus creating a sense of ownership.
The bottom line, however, is that it worked. In today's pre-packaged economy, there may be opportunity for purveyors of instant, one-shot goods to add a little activity into the process that actually increases sales. See also
It also made the cakes less of a "pile of chemicals"... I mean, what's more natural than an egg. So, like you said, take out the powdered egg, and now you're cooking a wholesome and and natural cake again!
They're adding a new level. They used to have a free and rather limited account, and a paid account with fewer restrictions. They're now adding a "sponsored" account. You get more of the "paid" features, but instead of paying, you agree to have ads placed on your site.
This whole change in TOS is about you not signing up for the sponsored account and then turning around and trying to use code in your site to block the ads or keep site visitors from seeing them.
The "free" account is still without ads.
From their site: For Free account holders: You don't have to display ads on your journal or Friends page or view ads in the LiveJournal site pages. We're committed to keeping the Free account level available to you, and it's your choice if you'd like to opt in to the Sponsored+ level or purchase a Paid account.
Instinctually, don't you feel that you're smarter than the computer?
Given the same set of information, yes, I feel I can probably make a better decision. But this traffic management network, in conjunction with my car, can have knowledge of the whole network at a level that I can't see or even process.
I personally would love a "personal" mass transit option. It gets me there fast without having to deal with "mass" part of it!
Even if I got routed to a longer route, as long as I'm arriving within an expected range of time, then I really don't care how it gets me there. I mean, my current commute has a fair amount of variability as it is.
With a large system like this, maybe there are fewer "direct routes", but instead everything is some kind of mesh of routes.
Personally, I'd love to have my car drive me to work and let me do other things like take a nap. That would give me all the bonuses of "mass transit" such as:
- being able to do other things while getting there (sleep, read, have sex) - can sing with the radio without getting killed - eat breakfast
without all the irritating things like:
- having to travel on someone else's schedule - sitting next to smelly/loud/irritating people - sitting on seats stained with who-knows-what - having to take 3 times as long to get where I'm going - standing half the time, next to smelly people, because there aren't enough seats - other people having sex (sometimes by themselves)
Sure, I'd still like to get out and drive the way I want from time to time, but for my daily commute, let my car take me there. And 90% of my driving is to-and-from work.
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You should probably be figuring in the cost of her computer, software, printer, consumables, tax software, and office space (even if it's in your house - if it's "dedicated", then it's an office and you count it, the maintenance, local taxes, rent, etc - usually as a percent based on square feet).
If you've been neglecting this, you can ammend your return for up to 3 years (IRS can get for problems up to 10 - isn't that sweet), so if you've not been counting these things, you might want to consult an accountant.
False, unfounded beliefs should be met with derision.
/sarcasm
Right... because the best way to get someone to examine a belief and possibly change it in the face of evidence is by ridiculing them. It certainly works well with Christians and Muslims.
4. the New-ager/Far Left wing hippie types that believe the gov and science is out to get them.
Actually, most of the "the government is out to get me" people I know are right-wingers and libertarians. Of the people I know that won't vaccinate, all but one of them are of that variety. The one that is a hippie liberal is against most artificial things like vaccinations, but also including things like pesticides, growth hormones, chemical fertilizers (rather than good old bullshit), etc.
Both ends are a little "out there" for me, but I'm more afraid of right-wing wackos than left-wing wackos. The right-wingers tend to kill people when they get upset, lefties just get stoned.
** spoilers **
The Da Vinci Code was a nice read. But after reading Angels & Demons, and Digital Fortress, I determined he uses this basic formula:
A good-looking, but slightly dorky middle-aged professor meets a good-looking, slightly aloof, smart woman (crypto-analyst, scientist) struggling in a man's world, because of a murder committed by a secret society (Vatican, NSA, Knight's Templar) in order to hide a secret that could unravel the fabric of society as we know it. The professor and the woman save the day, but only after being double-crossed by someone they trust, and go on to have crazy monkey sex in an exotic location.
It kind of makes the other books a bit predictable.
Right, but I imagine what's really needed here is a contract, not a EULA. This looks like a single developer making software for a single customer.
Of course, there are plenty of companies that like to think that a click-through EULA has the same strength as a contact.
None whatsoever, the client should retain the copyright. The developers have already capitalised on their effort by being paid. Rephrased, the question is more like "What's the most profitable way to avoid giving the client what they paid us to create?"
That's not necessarily the case. Suppose the developer has built a library of routines that are particularly suited to a common job, such as a database for doing a "balanced scorecard". I'm contracting with them now and they'd like to use their core library to make the project go faster with fewer bugs. Sure, I get rights to the code they produce, but they don't want to allow me to distribute their library code to others.
This is pretty much the situation I'm in right now. The agreement we have is that we are co-owners in the IP of the project. The basics are:
- neither of us can release the code to the outside world without approval from the other
- we can use the code without restriction in our corporation and our subsidiaries
- they can use the code in other projects with permission and as long as there is no connection or mention of us
- they cannot use us in any promotional material ("___ corp used us, and you should too")
It keeps us from going to into business against them, and it keeps them from taking our "trade secrets" to our competitors.
It works well for both of us because there is actually some co-development going on with the project.
I'm not making an argument against solar cells. I actually think they are probably a good idea in many cases.
But too often, an idea for "clean energy" is just pushing the dirt somewhere else. Take hydrogen powered cars for example. Sure, they have practically zero emisions out the tailpipw. But, somewhere there is an electricity plant burning more coal and gas (or nuke/hydro), producing more waste there, to crack the hydrogen to drive the car. People/The Press/etc tend to very often just look at one part of the system and say it's better/cleaner/more efficient, without looking what is happening in the whole system. I see it all the time in all kinds of business situations... each part driving for a local optimum - which drives the system away from an overall optimum.
As for this battery thing, it's probably even worse than solar cells.
More importantly, I'll take $10,000 worth of solar panels before spending money on a system that simply rearranges when I get my electricity from a polluting power plant.
Don't forget to take into account the energy used, and pollution and toxic waste generated by making those solar panels. You want to make sure you're not just pushing your pollution away from the power plant and into a factory.
It would be nice to prepare for meetings and such, but most of my work is "work"... as in with my computer, plugged into the work network. And our transit isn't conducive to that. During "rush" times, it's pretty packed and seats are rarely available.
I'd read books (for pleasure), but I already have enough eye-strain. But ultimately, my biggest problem is lack of sleep. I'm a night-person and getting up an hour earlier than I have to just leaves me even sleepier during the day and less effective.
I'm planning to move within walking distance from work within the next year, which will solve the problem. But for now, I drive because it's the best option.
Wow! I live in Portland, where there's supposed to be "great public transit". I live 1 block from a light-rail (we call it "MAX" station and my employer has a shuttle-bus from the station that is nearest to them.
I live 12 miles from work and can get door to door in about 25 minutes when I drive.
If I take the MAX, it takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.
It makes me wonder if mass transit really does any good.
I've gotten really lucky in my current job. I just got a new boss who was transferred from our European Office. He allows me a great deal of flexibility in my schedule (he already thinks I work too much - especially when I'm e-mailing with our European and Asian groups from home at night), and is always encouraging me to leave early or take days off.
It's very refreshing to work for someone who is so enlightened. Forcing people to work during specific hours does not mean they are more productive or efficient.
Really?
Is his schedule any worse than the boss that is out for weeks at a time on business trips?
If having a wonky schedule is the worst thing a "shitty" boss has done for you, then I think you're doing pretty well. Try one that:
- berates you in front of other people
- takes credit for your good work
- blames you when explaining to their superiors why something they were tasked with didn't happen
- actively works to undercut any chance of advancement into other departments
- denies you the chance to work on a fulfilling project for no good reason
- tells you to do something one way, then publicly tries to humiliate you for not doing it the way they "really meant"
- knows they have to have you do a certain task for them for weeks, but waits until mere hours before the board presentation before actually telling you they need the work done
- demands you cancel a vacation (family reunion) that you've planned for months, along with work contingencies, just because they MIGHT need you to help with a board presentation
- parks his car in the short-term parking at the airport for a 2 week business trip because he was too lazy to park in long term (or take a cab/limo), and then claims we don't have enough money in the budget for essential things like replacing broken computers
Those things make for a shitty boss. A wonky schedule is not so bad - and in fact, probably indicates that I might get some flexibility in my own schedule - which is something I value a lot.
As for commuting, my current situation works well. I often work from home in the mornings until 9:30 or 10:0 and then drive to work. I can sit and answer e-mails from anywhere. With the delay on coming in, I get a nice short commute and I'm a happy worker.
Isn't most of what's on TV just padded-out content anyway?
Freud was dead, but in the '50s, his theories were all the rage in the US.
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From: http://changingminds.org/analysis/betty_crockers_
Betty Crocker's Egg
Analysis > Betty Crocker's Egg
The story
In the early 50s Freud's psychotherapeutic approaches were sweeping America, even to the point where the CIA was trying to use it for mass-control of the population. Although these alarming mind-control experiments had limited success at best, there were some notable successes, particularly in promotion.
A place where it proved successful was in the unassuming kitchens of middle-class families. Betty Crocker Foods had produced an instant cake-mix. All you needed to do was to add water to the supplied powder. By today's standards, the result was probably quite unpalatable, but then, it was something of a miracle.
The problem was that the miracle mixture did not sell. Undaunted, Betty turned to the new science of psychoanalysis to help solve the problem.
The conclusion of the psychoanalysts that she employed was that the although the average American housewife very much appreciated the convenience of the cake mix, she felt guilty at deceiving her husband and other guests into thinking she had worked hard for them when, in fact, she had done very little work.
Their answer: add an egg.
An egg also has the connotation of life and birth, making the creation of the cake more meaningful -- the housewife thus 'gives birth' for her husband.
Changing the recipe to add an egg to the mixture (which was suitably modified to make space for one egg's worth of protein and cholesterol) offered the guilty housewife a way out. By doing more than adding water, by adding a real ingredient, she could assuage her guilt.
The result: sales soared.
Freud 1, Housewives 0
Comment
Was it all so Freudian? Were the housewives feeling guilty? Maybe -- but there are other explanations. For example:
* Eggs are known for their nutritional value. Adding nutrition would seem to result in a better cake.
* It may assuage guilt to add an egg, but the Freudian 'birth' stuff could be theoretical nonsense.
* Doing work adds investment to the process, thus creating a sense of ownership.
The bottom line, however, is that it worked. In today's pre-packaged economy, there may be opportunity for purveyors of instant, one-shot goods to add a little activity into the process that actually increases sales.
See also
I didn't try - but if it was flash, I've totally ripped flash out of mozilla. I pretty much expect that I won't see video.
My guess is that they are saying that at on any given day, 1.4 million DVDs are "in-transit".
If you ship 10 DVDs on one day, and it takes 3 days to get to the destination, you would still have 10 DVDs in-transit per day.
It sounds funny, knowing what's "in-transit" is an important inventory metric.
Plus, they might be counting the return trips as well.
It's impossible to know, however, without having the underlying data.
It also made the cakes less of a "pile of chemicals"... I mean, what's more natural than an egg. So, like you said, take out the powdered egg, and now you're cooking a wholesome and and natural cake again!
I had to "temporarily allow" 3 different "sites" on scriptblocker to see the whole show...
I would add to that to make a directory in your image that has all the possible drivers it might want. It sure beats trying to find the right disk.
It's probably even possible to make windows look there upon re-discovery.
Have you actually gone to livejournal today?
They're adding a new level. They used to have a free and rather limited account, and a paid account with fewer restrictions. They're now adding a "sponsored" account. You get more of the "paid" features, but instead of paying, you agree to have ads placed on your site.
This whole change in TOS is about you not signing up for the sponsored account and then turning around and trying to use code in your site to block the ads or keep site visitors from seeing them.
The "free" account is still without ads.
From their site:
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Instinctually, don't you feel that you're smarter than the computer?
Given the same set of information, yes, I feel I can probably make a better decision. But this traffic management network, in conjunction with my car, can have knowledge of the whole network at a level that I can't see or even process.
I personally would love a "personal" mass transit option. It gets me there fast without having to deal with "mass" part of it!
Even if I got routed to a longer route, as long as I'm arriving within an expected range of time, then I really don't care how it gets me there. I mean, my current commute has a fair amount of variability as it is.
With a large system like this, maybe there are fewer "direct routes", but instead everything is some kind of mesh of routes.
Personally, I'd love to have my car drive me to work and let me do other things like take a nap. That would give me all the bonuses of "mass transit" such as:
- being able to do other things while getting there (sleep, read, have sex)
- can sing with the radio without getting killed
- eat breakfast
without all the irritating things like:
- having to travel on someone else's schedule
- sitting next to smelly/loud/irritating people
- sitting on seats stained with who-knows-what
- having to take 3 times as long to get where I'm going
- standing half the time, next to smelly people, because there aren't enough seats
- other people having sex (sometimes by themselves)
Sure, I'd still like to get out and drive the way I want from time to time, but for my daily commute, let my car take me there. And 90% of my driving is to-and-from work.
The Who are dead?! I thought they were just deaf...
And here it is!
(to the tune of the US Marine Corps song)
From the emtpy womb of Mary, to the empty tomb of Christ
We will celebrate the holidays, With cakes and cookies iced
Books will tell tales of the savior, 'twill be hard to tell what's true
We'll take all the pagan holidays, and tell the Christians, "they're for you"
And nothing symbolizes Christmas like the empty womb of Mary?
I think I feel a song coming on!