Works better if you combine a legacy and membership in a well-maligned fraternity. To have such going for you, having a pulse and a GED would get you in.
Link. While it'd be the last thing to use, it becomes useful to apply when selectivity interferes with admission to the point even state universities join in.
If it really didn't matter if you went to a selectivist run college or not, there would be no problem of the name, selectivity, and the prestige being removed. That means the education itself matters, nothing else.
Maybe it's time to consider selectivity a liability and not an asset in education - not the other way around.
[sarcasm] When in business, forget that those two concepts even exist- only focus on the money, the product, the stockholders, the law, and finally the customers. It also helps if you can know some lawmakers willing to counter anyone who causes friction in business conduct.
There's nothing worse than a pro-consumer law that works, an immigration bill that is fully enforced, workers that have long term hope versus fear, or if you cant use Far Eastern countries as a one stop solution for that pesky domestic talent. Don't let Reagan's work go in vain! [/sarcasm]
Somehow I'd think the folks from South Park would have some experience in that department. Nothing better than having an episode that brings CoS right on over.
...that outside of the known games (and areas thereof) where it is permitted, it is a violation of the agreements made to use such services? This would be better served as a nice large honeypot that bans sellers and buyers while outing the actual farmers as well. It would be better to let the signals go unsuppressed to quit or not than to facilitate agreement violations.
If you wanted to sell Lindens, Entropia cash, and Sony Station currency, fine. However, breaking agreements to expand the horizons is not. I've killed too many bots already and collected too much loot from them to just be idle on this one.
The attrition rate wasn't too high. The signup rate was. How is that a problem? Adjusting course structure to weed out people is - it belies the difficulty that really exists.
In any case it certainly appears that you went to a Uni that cannot deal with elite students if they have to shut down a whole department just because it only keeps the elite. Back in the day, when they were run by teachers, Unis were proud to have elite departments that only graduated a handful of students. Not by flunking people out in droves, but by making sure only people who had a chance to graduate got in. That is the problem- limiting access. If you want that, a blueblood-run Ivy will be happy to serve you(or the other way around?). However, you will find yourself increasingly distrusted and eventually find that "prestige built schools" are more of a liability than an asset.
Guess it's a problem when you have overly selectionist policy towards education and not one that allows citizens of any class receive the best education possible.
So, capping H1-B visas will cause high-tech companies to move elsewhere and will cause US engineers to compete against highly skilled engineers in lower-wage countries. That's not competition. That's more like "race to the bottom".
As for solving it, find somewhere a tax can be swapped out for one on all foreign assets used in such manner. This would be used to close the "foreign asset loophole", and provide for such a way to (perhaps) subsidize (non-immigrant, but otherwise) universal, non "prestige class" higher education admissions.
Putting it this way would put business in a spot that if they deny it on terms of being "business hostile", they could be called on not wanting to solve the problem at home. Do they lean towards pure profit and turn their Social Responsibility measures towards hypocrisy, and make their problem worse? Or can they lean towards making their "Social Responsibility" count and have this measure in place?
It's one thing to profit, it is another to appear sacred to preserve a structure hostile to possessing citizenship. It may be unpopular to some well-heeled lobbyists to put a tax on foreign assets, but if you use the right means to make their hostility turn against them, they'll have to accept it.
No, you mean NCR. Nothing like an AT&T takeover to really screw things up beyond repair, and a generation of executives that have turned the company 180 degrees away from ethical conduct.
Or you can build one of these and not have an underpowered G4. As the unit was practically built up from a board there is no warranty to speak of- you do save a good deal on markup if you look in the right places. Not to mention, the case is whatever you make it, from any country of origin you want source the parts.
That and you can develop for ppc64 natively, not having the expense or heft of the other solutions.
Software to hook the drives up to cellphones has already been produced for J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile, Symbian and XCCC. Let me guess that Verizon is going to not carry this, or they're going to make a pure revenue generator of this - by controlling how it talks to the disk.
The platform is open source... Given how that's currently played out with phones, I'll not hold my breath on it being such.
Seagate won't, however, be making consumer drives itself: Dave is for telcos and handset OEMs for sale under their own brands. Furthermore, the package isn't merely Seagate drives and an application framework, as Dave includes proprietary technology: even with WiFi blaring and BlueTooth listening contstantly, a Dave drive offers 10 hours of active use and up to 14 days standby. Thusly-equipped drives will also work with standard computers. As long as it's made into a standard portable disk, and accessible over bluetooth, fine. With that in mind, there should be no problems using this in Linux or just as a pocket disk drive if the data formats are unencumbered.
If the iPhone supports enough features of this to use it and the Java applet that comes with, you might have a way to get those third party applets through.
Another thought would be to use it to store unlocking applications for multiple phones (that support such).
I would prefer the assurance and accountability come from the company running the game in this case Apparently you dont know NCSoft who has only been prodded to finally start dropping the hammer.
Government regulation about how they run such a market isn't very interesting to me, people can always choose not to play the game and so forth, and I'm not sure what would count for unfair. It's the most evenly applied solution that works well enough to have lobbyists fight against it. It also has that nice knock-on effect that makes alternatives unviable. Write it broadly to remove most cases of circumvention, and reward reporting the violators in.
Nothing like the Iron Hand of Regulation that trumps the "other one" any day of the week.
On the other hand, hiring Carly was exactly opposed to what needed to be done. It may not have caused HP to slide into the toilet, but I'm pretty sure the hand on the lever was attached to one C. Fiorina.
The lever handler only changed when it got to Hurd. Now if they'd merge with NCR and drop the HP name, there might be some way to save both in one shot. Heck, it'd even have a chance at revitalizing the Indecision State of the Midwest.
Provides a fair comparison of everyone's bright idea on a given real-world dataset. However, such can be skewed by relative wealth and favoritism of exclusionary conduct. Factor out market and failures thereof, and you can get a better solution.
It'd be a longshot, but maybe they could extend that to their practices regarding OS X and their hardware? Repackaging it in a desired format with spare parts gets you in trouble these days if you sell it, much less the hardware binding. They'd not need to ban OS X, just remove the restrictions on interoperability and hardware use.
Of course, fanboi's will come far and wide to dispute this- but not all of us like their products in "Ivory Tower" white as a majority, in non-ATX forms, or even the architecture they bless. I'll take a clone or a custom built machine, and run whatever, however - economics be damned.
Hopefully at least the iTMS ban holds up and works.
I see people all around me with TIs and think 'there could be something so much better'
Wait until you see the math departments sold on them, and those who've come from such "contract schools". It's not good and takes unnecessary time to undo in college.
As it's been said before - HP is the way, the rest do disservice in terms of how they get to/give the answer.
Forbes Wasnt Forbes the one who released the study that stated it was permissible to drop quality by the wayside? Taking them seriously as an ethical entity becomes hard after seeing that one come out.
1. Bill Gates
Privledged silverspoon Harvardite that dropped out early. Maybe when there are universal, no-refusal (by any means, financial or otherwise) admissions to any university offered to multigenerational citizens of all backgrounds, followed up by a policy that you cannot be discriminated by your nonacademic conduct - then I'll take Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the ilk seriously. Otherwise they're just a bunch of schools to write off.
2. Warren Buffet Midwestern oddity that somehow got here, and serves no real purpose outside of proving his lack of ethics. Safely ignored and shunned.
4. Larry Ellison If you dont mind tons of bugs in the code, fine.
7. Christy Walton 8. Robson Walton 10. Alice Walton
The three bad apples who turned Walmart into China*Mart and would be better served to be deported. Since these three have done a 180 to the company in terms of ethics, maybe they'd be well served somewhere that they can regain that lost sense. Although I'd gladly accept a nice 90% bracket on their foreign assets crafted for entities such as them. Foreign asset loopholes need to be closed somehow.
9. Michael Dell Deport this guy with the Waltons. 90% tax bracket on all foreign assets acceptable.
So, about half the people on the list deservedly need to be respected for the way they came from humble beginnings to contribute so much. Apparently you dont get the point. They're just as guilty as the guy that's buried somewhere in Aspen. Respect for unethical entities just doesnt make any sense.
And other half are due to Sam old man Walton who might have unceremoniously departed before he could have thought about charity or some other social contribution. But hey all the bucks that even he accumulated and left for his bounty litter, must be spent and given back to the society, or invested in it to make more of it, right? What part of ethics do you not understand? They're lost causes. The best you can do is put foreign assets in a 90% tax bracket, used in part to ramrod universal admissions to clean up their mess. Allowing a by-country exemption would just get them to set up fronts for companies that have abused their status.
Is there a company that exists west of the Mississippi that's quite profitable, ethical, doesn't make a point to sell out to Asia and doesnt act like some exclusive university (yes Google, that's pointed towards you)? Or does ethics seem to be inversely proportional to profit?
Agreed by a longtime owner of a 48GX, a 28S and a 49G(avoid!).
If you want something more sturdy and is an example of US built electronics done well, the HP-28S does nicely if you're just wanting the RPN and CAS parts. The bonus also is that these calculators require a bit more thought into the answer opposed to just getting there.
Otherwise the pre-Fiorina era HP-48GX does well. The HP-49G and onward are just poorly constructed with no resemblance in anything but name to the HP-48GX - only the CAS & RPN features put them ahead of the others.
somewhere in texas a village is missing it's idiot. Dont they mean somewhere in Connecticut, since they're missing one (as well) with exactly the same description?
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Works better if you combine a legacy and membership in a well-maligned fraternity. To have such going for you, having a pulse and a GED would get you in.
Link. While it'd be the last thing to use, it becomes useful to apply when selectivity interferes with admission to the point even state universities join in.
If it really didn't matter if you went to a selectivist run college or not, there would be no problem of the name, selectivity, and the prestige being removed. That means the education itself matters, nothing else.
Maybe it's time to consider selectivity a liability and not an asset in education - not the other way around.
Apparently you don't go to an Ivy given the opulent can get in, no matter how dumb.
I believe Stephen King has covered this one already in The Stand.
Of course, you wont see it do human flesh on "Will it Blend?". Of course, it wont care much on if you stick you hand in there, it will get "rendered".
[sarcasm]
When in business, forget that those two concepts even exist- only focus on the money, the product, the stockholders, the law, and finally the customers. It also helps if you can know some lawmakers willing to counter anyone who causes friction in business conduct.
There's nothing worse than a pro-consumer law that works, an immigration bill that is fully enforced, workers that have long term hope versus fear, or if you cant use Far Eastern countries as a one stop solution for that pesky domestic talent. Don't let Reagan's work go in vain!
[/sarcasm]
Somehow I'd think the folks from South Park would have some experience in that department. Nothing better than having an episode that brings CoS right on over.
...that outside of the known games (and areas thereof) where it is permitted, it is a violation of the agreements made to use such services? This would be better served as a nice large honeypot that bans sellers and buyers while outing the actual farmers as well. It would be better to let the signals go unsuppressed to quit or not than to facilitate agreement violations.
If you wanted to sell Lindens, Entropia cash, and Sony Station currency, fine. However, breaking agreements to expand the horizons is not. I've killed too many bots already and collected too much loot from them to just be idle on this one.
You forgot one thing:
* Attend and graduate from an Ivy League or equivalent School, preferably pledging to a powerful fraternity or sorority.
The attrition rate wasn't too high. The signup rate was.
How is that a problem? Adjusting course structure to weed out people is - it belies the difficulty that really exists.
In any case it certainly appears that you went to a Uni that cannot deal with elite students if they have to shut down a whole department just because it only keeps the elite. Back in the day, when they were run by teachers, Unis were proud to have elite departments that only graduated a handful of students. Not by flunking people out in droves, but by making sure only people who had a chance to graduate got in.
That is the problem- limiting access. If you want that, a blueblood-run Ivy will be happy to serve you(or the other way around?). However, you will find yourself increasingly distrusted and eventually find that "prestige built schools" are more of a liability than an asset.
Guess it's a problem when you have overly selectionist policy towards education and not one that allows citizens of any class receive the best education possible.
That's not competition. That's more like "race to the bottom".
As for solving it, find somewhere a tax can be swapped out for one on all foreign assets used in such manner. This would be used to close the "foreign asset loophole", and provide for such a way to (perhaps) subsidize (non-immigrant, but otherwise) universal, non "prestige class" higher education admissions.
Putting it this way would put business in a spot that if they deny it on terms of being "business hostile", they could be called on not wanting to solve the problem at home. Do they lean towards pure profit and turn their Social Responsibility measures towards hypocrisy, and make their problem worse? Or can they lean towards making their "Social Responsibility" count and have this measure in place?
It's one thing to profit, it is another to appear sacred to preserve a structure hostile to possessing citizenship. It may be unpopular to some well-heeled lobbyists to put a tax on foreign assets, but if you use the right means to make their hostility turn against them, they'll have to accept it.
No, you mean NCR. Nothing like an AT&T takeover to really screw things up beyond repair, and a generation of executives that have turned the company 180 degrees away from ethical conduct.
Or you can build one of these and not have an underpowered G4. As the unit was practically built up from a board there is no warranty to speak of- you do save a good deal on markup if you look in the right places. Not to mention, the case is whatever you make it, from any country of origin you want source the parts.
That and you can develop for ppc64 natively, not having the expense or heft of the other solutions.
Software to hook the drives up to cellphones has already been produced for J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile, Symbian and XCCC.
Let me guess that Verizon is going to not carry this, or they're going to make a pure revenue generator of this - by controlling how it talks to the disk.
The platform is open source...
Given how that's currently played out with phones, I'll not hold my breath on it being such.
Seagate won't, however, be making consumer drives itself: Dave is for telcos and handset OEMs for sale under their own brands. Furthermore, the package isn't merely Seagate drives and an application framework, as Dave includes proprietary technology: even with WiFi blaring and BlueTooth listening contstantly, a Dave drive offers 10 hours of active use and up to 14 days standby. Thusly-equipped drives will also work with standard computers.
As long as it's made into a standard portable disk, and accessible over bluetooth, fine. With that in mind, there should be no problems using this in Linux or just as a pocket disk drive if the data formats are unencumbered.
If the iPhone supports enough features of this to use it and the Java applet that comes with, you might have a way to get those third party applets through.
Another thought would be to use it to store unlocking applications for multiple phones (that support such).
HAL: I'm sorry DAVE, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Let me guess that this HAL also does Digital Rights Management too?
But the Soviet Union? I thought you guys had disbanded?
Ambassador:*chuckles* Yes, that's what we wanted you to think!
Apparently Yukos (and some others) didn't get the memo.
As for interesting domains- it.su is already taken, for those who prefer things extra hot.
I thought it was just antialiasing the N.
I would prefer the assurance and accountability come from the company running the game in this case
Apparently you dont know NCSoft who has only been prodded to finally start dropping the hammer.
Government regulation about how they run such a market isn't very interesting to me, people can always choose not to play the game and so forth, and I'm not sure what would count for unfair.
It's the most evenly applied solution that works well enough to have lobbyists fight against it. It also has that nice knock-on effect that makes alternatives unviable. Write it broadly to remove most cases of circumvention, and reward reporting the violators in.
Nothing like the Iron Hand of Regulation that trumps the "other one" any day of the week.
On the other hand, hiring Carly was exactly opposed to what needed to be done.
It may not have caused HP to slide into the toilet, but I'm pretty sure the hand on the lever was attached to one C. Fiorina.
The lever handler only changed when it got to Hurd. Now if they'd merge with NCR and drop the HP name, there might be some way to save both in one shot. Heck, it'd even have a chance at revitalizing the Indecision State of the Midwest.
Provides a fair comparison of everyone's bright idea on a given real-world dataset.
However, such can be skewed by relative wealth and favoritism of exclusionary conduct. Factor out market and failures thereof, and you can get a better solution.
It'd be a longshot, but maybe they could extend that to their practices regarding OS X and their hardware? Repackaging it in a desired format with spare parts gets you in trouble these days if you sell it, much less the hardware binding. They'd not need to ban OS X, just remove the restrictions on interoperability and hardware use.
Of course, fanboi's will come far and wide to dispute this- but not all of us like their products in "Ivory Tower" white as a majority, in non-ATX forms, or even the architecture they bless. I'll take a clone or a custom built machine, and run whatever, however - economics be damned.
Hopefully at least the iTMS ban holds up and works.
I see people all around me with TIs and think 'there could be something so much better'
Wait until you see the math departments sold on them, and those who've come from such "contract schools". It's not good and takes unnecessary time to undo in college.
As it's been said before - HP is the way, the rest do disservice in terms of how they get to/give the answer.
Forbes
Wasnt Forbes the one who released the study that stated it was permissible to drop quality by the wayside? Taking them seriously as an ethical entity becomes hard after seeing that one come out.
1. Bill Gates
Privledged silverspoon Harvardite that dropped out early. Maybe when there are universal, no-refusal (by any means, financial or otherwise) admissions to any university offered to multigenerational citizens of all backgrounds, followed up by a policy that you cannot be discriminated by your nonacademic conduct - then I'll take Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the ilk seriously. Otherwise they're just a bunch of schools to write off.
2. Warren Buffet
Midwestern oddity that somehow got here, and serves no real purpose outside of proving his lack of ethics. Safely ignored and shunned.
4. Larry Ellison
If you dont mind tons of bugs in the code, fine.
7. Christy Walton
8. Robson Walton
10. Alice Walton
The three bad apples who turned Walmart into China*Mart and would be better served to be deported. Since these three have done a 180 to the company in terms of ethics, maybe they'd be well served somewhere that they can regain that lost sense. Although I'd gladly accept a nice 90% bracket on their foreign assets crafted for entities such as them. Foreign asset loopholes need to be closed somehow.
9. Michael Dell
Deport this guy with the Waltons. 90% tax bracket on all foreign assets acceptable.
So, about half the people on the list deservedly need to be respected for the way they came from humble beginnings to contribute so much.
Apparently you dont get the point. They're just as guilty as the guy that's buried somewhere in Aspen. Respect for unethical entities just doesnt make any sense.
And other half are due to Sam old man Walton who might have unceremoniously departed before he could have thought about charity or some other social contribution. But hey all the bucks that even he accumulated and left for his bounty litter, must be spent and given back to the society, or invested in it to make more of it, right?
What part of ethics do you not understand?
They're lost causes. The best you can do is put foreign assets in a 90% tax bracket, used in part to ramrod universal admissions to clean up their mess. Allowing a by-country exemption would just get them to set up fronts for companies that have abused their status.
Is there a company that exists west of the Mississippi that's quite profitable, ethical, doesn't make a point to sell out to Asia and doesnt act like some exclusive university (yes Google, that's pointed towards you)? Or does ethics seem to be inversely proportional to profit?
Agreed by a longtime owner of a 48GX, a 28S and a 49G(avoid!).
If you want something more sturdy and is an example of US built electronics done well, the HP-28S does nicely if you're just wanting the RPN and CAS parts. The bonus also is that these calculators require a bit more thought into the answer opposed to just getting there.
Otherwise the pre-Fiorina era HP-48GX does well. The HP-49G and onward are just poorly constructed with no resemblance in anything but name to the HP-48GX - only the CAS & RPN features put them ahead of the others.
somewhere in texas a village is missing it's idiot.
Dont they mean somewhere in Connecticut, since they're missing one (as well) with exactly the same description?