Until one of the smarter contestants starts taking apart the robot cameras to build stun guns and other modern conveninences for getting rid of enemies!
Why not put your "fighting spirit" towards something that actually matters?
Maybe my tinfoil hat's on too tight, but the people with the power don't want the masses to do this.
Don't you realize that TV is the opiate/soma of the masses? It does a great job of keeping most people sedated and uninterested in the "real world". Without it, they'd be unhappy enough with their pathetic and boring lives that they just might restless and be more active in things that "actually matter".
That means changing the status quo, and expecting accountability from leaders. I guarantee you that George Bush is much happier having thousands of people squandering their energy and lives writing to studio execs to keep a show on the air, rather than writing their congresspeople to call for an end to the Iraq war or stopping his reform/overhaul/decimation of social security.
Keep the people happy and dumb, and you don't have to answer to them because they'll be too involved in trivial bullshit.
I once posted about a system I made using a small linux partition (with enough space to store an image of the windows side of things).
There's a Lilo boot menu that defaults to linux, which then deletes windows and restores it from a tar/gz file. Linux can tell lilo to boot to a different option, so when it reboots, Windows is loaded the next time - fresh every time.
It's probably slower than deepfreeze, but it's free and is quite customizeable.
The design of a building is artistic and is probably copyrighted by the architect.
Taking this to its absurd conclusion, anyone who photographs city's skyline would have to pay royalties to the architects for each building in the shot.
This write-up is pretty short. Maybe a sentence about Evolution would be nice.. or at least a link to a webpage about it.
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I don't know how old you are, but think about it in the context of the movies of the time. It's deep, has great effects that don't disrupt the story-telling, it does make you think, and even leaves some un-answered questions. It think for its day, it was remarkable and groundbreaking.
I mean, imagine watching Star Wars today, having never seen it, and you'd probably not be very impressed.
I'm not sure if it's true, because I can't find a source, but I heard once that it costs the IRS nearly 50% of the revenue they collect to do their job. That seems like a pretty crappy margin to me.
One of the principles of business is the maximization of profit.
Actually, it's better stated, "maximization of shareholder value". It's this misunderstanding that leads to so much trouble.
Profit/Loss is only for a defined period of time. Value is somewhat timeless.
For example, as a CEO, I can maximize profits this quarter by firing every employee and selling the company's production facilities and assets. This move does not, however, maximize shareholder value.
This is an extreme example, but the focus on short term profits often harm the long term value of the shareholders.
One way to help solve this is to pay the management (or everyone, even) in a firm modest salaries and award them stock that can only be sold five years or later after their issue. This will keep everyone thinking longer term and will prevent a CEO from pumping the stock price through harmful moves and then jumping ship.
That's rubbish. Mozilla implements the standards, all they need to do is follow the standards and Mozilla will support it. No moving target there.
You don't seem to be getting it. Yes, Mozilla adheres to the standards, but there are lots of websites out there that don't. And they all don't necessarily break adherence in the same way.
The problem is not the website creators blaming Mozilla, it's the end user who can't get into the site they want. THEY blame Mozilla.
Mozilla is saying they won't try to implement fixes for the non-adherent websites because they are the moving target, and that adding the fixes adds bloat to the program.
The moving target is the non-adherent methods used by websites, not the standard that Mozilla follows.
Maybe being a big fan is not good for an actor, as they are coming to the project with all their own ideas on what is going on. It's probably better for the director to be the big fan, and then share his vision with the actors. There might be fewer conflicts that way.
The extras indicated that the actors on LOTR often went to Lee for more info about the story. Maybe it would have been better for them to go to Peter. Who knows.
As I recall, from one of the extras on the DVD, Lee has been a life-long fan of LOTR. In fact he claimed that he has read it once a year for many years now. I suppose if I was a huge fan of a book, and was an actor with some influence, I'd try to get in on the movie project for the book.
I know the answer is "hot grits", but can anyone say where that comes from? A google search is somewhat fruitless, as most of the results point to slashdot and nerds.
This woman has something that so many engineers are lacking, and that's a focus on what she can accopmlish.
So many engineers focus on what can't be done, how it's impossible, or how it can't be done with tools/budget available.
I'd be much more inclined to hire her because she has shown that she has drive, motivation, and a can-do attitude. Those traits easily overcome years of education.
I can give her education, but there's no way I can give her those other things.
The problem here is that Ford does not ask you to install upgrades on your explorer, for free. Your idea is interesting, but does not apply.
Actually, most car companies will do free service on a car if there is a recall item. Often, a recall item is not critical or even safety related. You will often get a letter telling you about it, or the techs will tell you when next take the car for servicing.
In any case, my previous response was about liability when a product injures a 3rd party. The poster said he would sue Microsoft/Sun/Whoever the next time there is an exploit that causes their customers' computers to attack his server.
Someone replied that the EULA absolved the software vendor. I simply stated that this guy is a 3rd party, and suffered damages from what he claims is a faulty product. The agreements between the vendor and the customer do not necessarily protect the vendor when their product leads to damage to a 3rd party.
Ultimately, it would be up to a jury to decide if: 1) the product was defective 2) the vendor knew it was defective and was negligent 3) the 3rd party suffered damages
MS is not responsible for *anything*, according to their EULA which you presumeably clicked when you installed their bug infested, insecure software.
Actually, he said he's running BSD.. that MS is selling a defective product to many people, whose computers, in turn, cause him economic damage due to those defects.
He is claiming that MS owes him compensation for damages because they knowingly sell a defective product and do not recall it.
In meat-space, let's suppose there's a contract item when you buy a Ford Explorer that claims to absolve Ford of any liablities. The driver then flips the thing over (pre-firestone-recall) due to whatever defect, and it rolls onto you, a pedestrian on the sidewalk.
You should have a case for damages against Ford because they had sold a defective product that caused you harm, even though you were not the purchaser.
They should be expensed when they're exercised not when they're awarded because there's no guarantee that they ever will be exercised. So by taxing them before they are exercised you're creating work for accountants who'll have to keep track of them until their expiry date.
I don't know if you've heard about them, but there's this really nifty new invention called a computer. It's great for doing tedious things like keepking track of things in a database. You can store dates, values, expiration dates, and then generate reports. The really cool part is there is this whole network of computers called the internet where there is all kinds of information, like stock prices. The computer keeping track of the options can go out at any time and find the current value.
Of all the tasks an accountant has to deal with, this is not a big one. It's pretty straightforward to be able to keep track of them (lord, they should be anyway, right?), and have their values updated upon any particular report.
Sure, the value can change from report to report, but don't a lot of things, like the amount of depreciation on and salvage value of equipment?
I'm sorry your options are worthless. I always thought companies should give stock as an incentive, and not options.
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Until one of the smarter contestants starts taking apart the robot cameras to build stun guns and other modern conveninences for getting rid of enemies!
Why not put your "fighting spirit" towards something that actually matters?
Maybe my tinfoil hat's on too tight, but the people with the power don't want the masses to do this.
Don't you realize that TV is the opiate/soma of the masses? It does a great job of keeping most people sedated and uninterested in the "real world". Without it, they'd be unhappy enough with their pathetic and boring lives that they just might restless and be more active in things that "actually matter".
That means changing the status quo, and expecting accountability from leaders. I guarantee you that George Bush is much happier having thousands of people squandering their energy and lives writing to studio execs to keep a show on the air, rather than writing their congresspeople to call for an end to the Iraq war or stopping his reform/overhaul/decimation of social security.
Keep the people happy and dumb, and you don't have to answer to them because they'll be too involved in trivial bullshit.
That's the point, I think. That these are warnings about practically any kind of matter that a product might be made of.
I thought exactly the same thing!
I had to buy the DVDs a 2nd time because my first set are spread around the country among my sci-fi loving friends. I feel like an evangelist!
My next project is The Venture Brothers... I've hooked 3 people so far!
"Media Player Classic" is a great alternative to quicktime, realplayer, and WMP. It's GNU, and works on about 90% of the media I've tried:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
Full sets of codecs for it are at:
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Assume you have 4 people.
Three of them make $20K/year. The other makes $100K/year.
Their average salary is (20K + 20K + 20K + 100K)/4 = $40K/year.
Only one of them makes more than the average, while 3 make less than the average.
I once posted about a system I made using a small linux partition (with enough space to store an image of the windows side of things).
There's a Lilo boot menu that defaults to linux, which then deletes windows and restores it from a tar/gz file. Linux can tell lilo to boot to a different option, so when it reboots, Windows is loaded the next time - fresh every time.
It's probably slower than deepfreeze, but it's free and is quite customizeable.
You can find details at:
http://it.slashdot.org/~hazem/journal
And why stop at sculptures in public?
The design of a building is artistic and is probably copyrighted by the architect.
Taking this to its absurd conclusion, anyone who photographs city's skyline would have to pay royalties to the architects for each building in the shot.
It was the one-armed man. I saw it from my kitchen while making grits.
This write-up is pretty short. Maybe a sentence about Evolution would be nice.. or at least a link to a webpage about it.
I don't know how old you are, but think about it in the context of the movies of the time. It's deep, has great effects that don't disrupt the story-telling, it does make you think, and even leaves some un-answered questions. It think for its day, it was remarkable and groundbreaking.
I mean, imagine watching Star Wars today, having never seen it, and you'd probably not be very impressed.
If you can't acquire, legally or otherwise, Adobe Acrobat, you can use PDF Writer on your windows box.
It installs itself as a printer, much like Adobe Acrobat, and you can print your completed forms to a PDF file for posterity.
I'm not sure if it's true, because I can't find a source, but I heard once that it costs the IRS nearly 50% of the revenue they collect to do their job. That seems like a pretty crappy margin to me.
One of the principles of business is the maximization of profit.
Actually, it's better stated, "maximization of shareholder value". It's this misunderstanding that leads to so much trouble.
Profit/Loss is only for a defined period of time. Value is somewhat timeless.
For example, as a CEO, I can maximize profits this quarter by firing every employee and selling the company's production facilities and assets. This move does not, however, maximize shareholder value.
This is an extreme example, but the focus on short term profits often harm the long term value of the shareholders.
One way to help solve this is to pay the management (or everyone, even) in a firm modest salaries and award them stock that can only be sold five years or later after their issue. This will keep everyone thinking longer term and will prevent a CEO from pumping the stock price through harmful moves and then jumping ship.
That's rubbish. Mozilla implements the standards, all they need to do is follow the standards and Mozilla will support it. No moving target there.
You don't seem to be getting it. Yes, Mozilla adheres to the standards, but there are lots of websites out there that don't. And they all don't necessarily break adherence in the same way.
The problem is not the website creators blaming Mozilla, it's the end user who can't get into the site they want. THEY blame Mozilla.
Mozilla is saying they won't try to implement fixes for the non-adherent websites because they are the moving target, and that adding the fixes adds bloat to the program.
The moving target is the non-adherent methods used by websites, not the standard that Mozilla follows.
Maybe being a big fan is not good for an actor, as they are coming to the project with all their own ideas on what is going on. It's probably better for the director to be the big fan, and then share his vision with the actors. There might be fewer conflicts that way.
The extras indicated that the actors on LOTR often went to Lee for more info about the story. Maybe it would have been better for them to go to Peter. Who knows.
As I recall, from one of the extras on the DVD, Lee has been a life-long fan of LOTR. In fact he claimed that he has read it once a year for many years now. I suppose if I was a huge fan of a book, and was an actor with some influence, I'd try to get in on the movie project for the book.
One shuttle flight - $300M
One Russian flight - $20M
If the shuttle fleet weren't grounded, each US flight would cost as much as, what, 60 Russian launches.
PLEASE tell me you don't work at NASA. 300 / 20 = 15... or maybe you're using metric?
I know the answer is "hot grits", but can anyone say where that comes from? A google search is somewhat fruitless, as most of the results point to slashdot and nerds.
If they didnt want to share, they shouldn't have stayed with the GPL.
I think they're pretty much stuck with the GPL unless they want to re-write anything that doesn't belong to them.
Come on... we're dealing in realistic things like FTL travel and Santa Claus.
I can't believe you're spreading rumors about this mythical "getting laid" thing.
This woman has something that so many engineers are lacking, and that's a focus on what she can accopmlish.
So many engineers focus on what can't be done, how it's impossible, or how it can't be done with tools/budget available.
I'd be much more inclined to hire her because she has shown that she has drive, motivation, and a can-do attitude. Those traits easily overcome years of education.
I can give her education, but there's no way I can give her those other things.
The problem here is that Ford does not ask you to install upgrades on your explorer, for free. Your idea is interesting, but does not apply.
Actually, most car companies will do free service on a car if there is a recall item. Often, a recall item is not critical or even safety related. You will often get a letter telling you about it, or the techs will tell you when next take the car for servicing.
In any case, my previous response was about liability when a product injures a 3rd party. The poster said he would sue Microsoft/Sun/Whoever the next time there is an exploit that causes their customers' computers to attack his server.
Someone replied that the EULA absolved the software vendor. I simply stated that this guy is a 3rd party, and suffered damages from what he claims is a faulty product. The agreements between the vendor and the customer do not necessarily protect the vendor when their product leads to damage to a 3rd party.
Ultimately, it would be up to a jury to decide if:
1) the product was defective
2) the vendor knew it was defective and was negligent
3) the 3rd party suffered damages
MS is not responsible for *anything*, according to their EULA which you presumeably clicked when you installed their bug infested, insecure software.
Actually, he said he's running BSD.. that MS is selling a defective product to many people, whose computers, in turn, cause him economic damage due to those defects.
He is claiming that MS owes him compensation for damages because they knowingly sell a defective product and do not recall it.
In meat-space, let's suppose there's a contract item when you buy a Ford Explorer that claims to absolve Ford of any liablities. The driver then flips the thing over (pre-firestone-recall) due to whatever defect, and it rolls onto you, a pedestrian on the sidewalk.
You should have a case for damages against Ford because they had sold a defective product that caused you harm, even though you were not the purchaser.
They should be expensed when they're exercised not when they're awarded because there's no guarantee that they ever will be exercised. So by taxing them before they are exercised you're creating work for accountants who'll have to keep track of them until their expiry date.
I don't know if you've heard about them, but there's this really nifty new invention called a computer. It's great for doing tedious things like keepking track of things in a database. You can store dates, values, expiration dates, and then generate reports. The really cool part is there is this whole network of computers called the internet where there is all kinds of information, like stock prices. The computer keeping track of the options can go out at any time and find the current value.
Of all the tasks an accountant has to deal with, this is not a big one. It's pretty straightforward to be able to keep track of them (lord, they should be anyway, right?), and have their values updated upon any particular report.
Sure, the value can change from report to report, but don't a lot of things, like the amount of depreciation on and salvage value of equipment?
I'm sorry your options are worthless. I always thought companies should give stock as an incentive, and not options.