Actually, funny you should say that-- I just started a new job (investment banking), and first time I open up word on my box, out pops fucking clippy (2000 pro/office 2000). But generally speaking, I completely agree. I haven't had a BSOD since win95 while my home linux boxes crash all the time 'cause I'm always trying new things. Thank you for pointing it out to people like the parent.
Oh come on-- you and I are smart enough to handle an apt-get, but saying it's as easy as it gets is idiotic. There are thousands of admins on slashdot that will testify that not only is it difficult for the average computer user to grasp anything more complicated than the double-click, systems have to compensate for the lowest common idiot, who could never get the capitalization and spacing required right.
What are you talking about? I'm discussing economics in academic terms here, where an efficient market is one in which there is a frictionless entry and exit of firms that ensures price competition and excess profit is removed. Excess profit is defined as profit above the "cost of capital," economic cost of doing business, or the best alternative use of capital.
Your comment clearly demonstrates that you have so little economic knowledge that you think my remarks are anti-corporate (when in fact they are anti-legislative and pro-market). I'm not trying to be elitist--indeed, by all means educate yourself. But don't try to argue economics until you do, because you're hopelessly out of sorts with the basic terminology required to do so. You are referring to an efficient company with little to no competition, where I am referring to the marketplace, where goods and services are exchanged at rates optimal to their respective owners.
I would--especially because the file-transfer support on all the substitutes sucks so much in comparison to real AIM (you can send on some of them, but the permission settings are missing and AIM is the only one with 'get file.'). I don't use yahoo or msn at all.
Google may just be hurting this whole e-mail industry more than it is helping.
Um, the original point was regarding the benefit to consumers. It's not hurting anyone, from that perspective. The competition is free and serves to remove excess profits from the industry, not profits altogether (the definition of a market approaching efficiency).
In my experience, google isn't shy about e-mailing people what amounts to cease-and-desist letters, but they always do it nicely, welcoming explanation and at least giving the opportunity to cease (regarding adwords/adsense usage, etc).
Yeah, but like in anything, getting to personalize your computer makes you feel a lot better about using it, and complain less. The first day I got to my new job (at a tiny investment bank, just out of college), they told me to do whatever I needed to my computer. To test, I asked about dual-booting linux (no need to 'cause I spend most of my time on excel, the VB support in OO is nonexistent, and we have the licenses anyway), and they just said "please talk to (our computer dude) before you do." That made me feel great, and my twelve hours a day feel a lot better when I can use what I want, when I want. Does my job require me to use something other than acrobat to print to pdf? No, but I'd sure like to, and it's great to be able to.
I'm sitting in the office tonight, about to depart after long hours, so I'll look around and tell you what I like. First off, I work in a very small startup investment bank, so we're all finance types, and all techies as well.
Corner desks are great because they give you that much more flexibility. We've got a couple offices that seat two/three people and they have modular deskspace with very low cube-ish partitions for those who face each other (my back is to one guy, so there's no partition there). The corner deskspace is a great way to do things rather than straight, and doesn't take a lot of extra space. The larger areas that seat two-four people who can spin their chairs around and look at their colleagues but who don't have to look at them all the time are great and flexible.
We've got a conference area that's pretty formal but still relies on low two-person couches and chairs to seat people so it's very flexible, and clients love it. We're an investment bank so we don't really have the foozball table stuff, but we do have an area separate from our conference area that clients don't typically see that has more casual stuff, which I think is really important.
We print a lot, and so convenient printers are REALLY important--you don't want to have to run down the hall every time you print a draft of a report or you'll go nuts.
Chairs are also important. I thought I was going to cry when I had to leave the Aeron chairs I had in my office space at school, but fortunately we've got excellent chairs here, too. If we didn't, I'd go totally nuts. I sit here for twelve hours a day, you know?
You've got to have convenient open filing space. Nice racks that you can file current stuff in so people don't leave it all over the place, but don't have to put it in a drawer or cabinet, either.
Ultimately, I think the option but not necessity for interaction has been the most important feature in offices I've worked in. At the trading floor at fidelity's fixed income site, everything is open, the traders and portfolio managers sit in groups with low cube walls (so you can see over them sitting) and no cubes dividing people unless they're facing each other, and the analysts all have open offices around the room so they can be yelled to (or at) conveniently. As an intern on the phones at a major credit card company, and later doing operations work for them, we had cube walls high enough that you couldn't see over them and only flat desk space in front of us and I think it definitely damaged productivity.
Oh, cool, thanks. I read the pdf but totally missed that--I thought they were going with the technological equivalent of cannonballs from their description of non-explosive impact capacity.
IANAP but how do you get over the problems implicit in an arcing firing strategy when you're firing something at 4.4 km/sec? I mean, with slower, conventional fire, projectiles are typically released in a trajectory that arcs significantly and eliminates the need for line-of-sight. But if you're firing at 4.4 km/sec at any target under 200km away, you really can't arc without overshooting your target, so you need pretty direct line-of-sight. They'll need to build in significant variability in firing velocities in order to make it work (which, I believe, is tough for a rail gun)
not if apple is sued to hell for encouraging consumers to "rip mix burn" potentially "pirated" files. The device innovation goes away if it becomes too risky to create a device that serves consumers in any way.
First, can anyone help me understand the child exploitation piece of this? I clearly understand that it's a veiled (thinly) threat at music "pirates," but I don't see ANY possible explanation of the veil itself.
Second, no VCR makers or users will be under pressure from this bill! Nobody commits copyright infringement on those anymore. It's Apple you have to worry about. "rip mix burn" and a convenient device with which to do so constitute aid and inducement more than anything else I can think of.
actually, the VCR owners (and manufacturers) will be fine--nobody pirates those anymore. It'll be apple who he really screws--rip, mix, burn constitutes aiding and inducement if anything does, and I challenge you to produce more than 1% of iPods that don't have "pirated" stuff on them.
Rental copies run $100-$131 for DVDs. A few big chains negotiate 20+% discounts off that, but don't think the studios don't get paid from rentals. When blockbuster buys twenty copies of a big new movie for each of its thousands of stores, the studios get paid just fine.
I recall some recent reports stating that the majority of commercial spam in the US is domestic in origin, not international. I don't have time to look them up now, but you might check your facts. But I agree--it doesn't make it easier.
I completely agree. How do you intend to enforce such a registry? People are forever insulting the gov't for creating unenforceable laws, and the FCC is right to hold back. You must remember that CAN-SPAM makes it a civil crime, while a national registry would make it a federal crime, requiring the gov't to spend money trying cases that obviously won't be won (and could also implicate a lot of innocents).
dude, calm down. it's entirely possible that he meant slack-jawed people, and not just anyone from the country or who's "blue-collar."
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I used to agree with you, but if it weren't for forward looking scientific analysis, we'd never have the foresight to preemptively take care of future problems which are sure to arrive. Specifically in this case, knowing that we'll hit this point in the future might lend the foresight to extend the retirement age beyond its present time. While you may be no more personally interested in the story than I am in hardened PHP, it doesn't mean the story is irrelevent or shouldn't be published.
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Actually, funny you should say that-- I just started a new job (investment banking), and first time I open up word on my box, out pops fucking clippy (2000 pro/office 2000). But generally speaking, I completely agree. I haven't had a BSOD since win95 while my home linux boxes crash all the time 'cause I'm always trying new things. Thank you for pointing it out to people like the parent.
Oh come on-- you and I are smart enough to handle an apt-get, but saying it's as easy as it gets is idiotic. There are thousands of admins on slashdot that will testify that not only is it difficult for the average computer user to grasp anything more complicated than the double-click, systems have to compensate for the lowest common idiot, who could never get the capitalization and spacing required right.
What are you talking about? I'm discussing economics in academic terms here, where an efficient market is one in which there is a frictionless entry and exit of firms that ensures price competition and excess profit is removed. Excess profit is defined as profit above the "cost of capital," economic cost of doing business, or the best alternative use of capital.
Your comment clearly demonstrates that you have so little economic knowledge that you think my remarks are anti-corporate (when in fact they are anti-legislative and pro-market). I'm not trying to be elitist--indeed, by all means educate yourself. But don't try to argue economics until you do, because you're hopelessly out of sorts with the basic terminology required to do so. You are referring to an efficient company with little to no competition, where I am referring to the marketplace, where goods and services are exchanged at rates optimal to their respective owners.
I would--especially because the file-transfer support on all the substitutes sucks so much in comparison to real AIM (you can send on some of them, but the permission settings are missing and AIM is the only one with 'get file.'). I don't use yahoo or msn at all.
Google may just be hurting this whole e-mail industry more than it is helping.
Um, the original point was regarding the benefit to consumers. It's not hurting anyone, from that perspective. The competition is free and serves to remove excess profits from the industry, not profits altogether (the definition of a market approaching efficiency).
In my experience, google isn't shy about e-mailing people what amounts to cease-and-desist letters, but they always do it nicely, welcoming explanation and at least giving the opportunity to cease (regarding adwords/adsense usage, etc).
Yeah, they're allowed to do it, and we're allowed to complain and tell people to use mail from a corp. that doesn't suck blood.
Yeah, but like in anything, getting to personalize your computer makes you feel a lot better about using it, and complain less. The first day I got to my new job (at a tiny investment bank, just out of college), they told me to do whatever I needed to my computer. To test, I asked about dual-booting linux (no need to 'cause I spend most of my time on excel, the VB support in OO is nonexistent, and we have the licenses anyway), and they just said "please talk to (our computer dude) before you do." That made me feel great, and my twelve hours a day feel a lot better when I can use what I want, when I want. Does my job require me to use something other than acrobat to print to pdf? No, but I'd sure like to, and it's great to be able to.
I'm sitting in the office tonight, about to depart after long hours, so I'll look around and tell you what I like. First off, I work in a very small startup investment bank, so we're all finance types, and all techies as well.
Corner desks are great because they give you that much more flexibility. We've got a couple offices that seat two/three people and they have modular deskspace with very low cube-ish partitions for those who face each other (my back is to one guy, so there's no partition there). The corner deskspace is a great way to do things rather than straight, and doesn't take a lot of extra space. The larger areas that seat two-four people who can spin their chairs around and look at their colleagues but who don't have to look at them all the time are great and flexible.
We've got a conference area that's pretty formal but still relies on low two-person couches and chairs to seat people so it's very flexible, and clients love it. We're an investment bank so we don't really have the foozball table stuff, but we do have an area separate from our conference area that clients don't typically see that has more casual stuff, which I think is really important.
We print a lot, and so convenient printers are REALLY important--you don't want to have to run down the hall every time you print a draft of a report or you'll go nuts.
Chairs are also important. I thought I was going to cry when I had to leave the Aeron chairs I had in my office space at school, but fortunately we've got excellent chairs here, too. If we didn't, I'd go totally nuts. I sit here for twelve hours a day, you know?
You've got to have convenient open filing space. Nice racks that you can file current stuff in so people don't leave it all over the place, but don't have to put it in a drawer or cabinet, either.
Ultimately, I think the option but not necessity for interaction has been the most important feature in offices I've worked in. At the trading floor at fidelity's fixed income site, everything is open, the traders and portfolio managers sit in groups with low cube walls (so you can see over them sitting) and no cubes dividing people unless they're facing each other, and the analysts all have open offices around the room so they can be yelled to (or at) conveniently. As an intern on the phones at a major credit card company, and later doing operations work for them, we had cube walls high enough that you couldn't see over them and only flat desk space in front of us and I think it definitely damaged productivity.
Good luck.
Oh, cool, thanks. I read the pdf but totally missed that--I thought they were going with the technological equivalent of cannonballs from their description of non-explosive impact capacity.
IANAP but how do you get over the problems implicit in an arcing firing strategy when you're firing something at 4.4 km/sec? I mean, with slower, conventional fire, projectiles are typically released in a trajectory that arcs significantly and eliminates the need for line-of-sight. But if you're firing at 4.4 km/sec at any target under 200km away, you really can't arc without overshooting your target, so you need pretty direct line-of-sight. They'll need to build in significant variability in firing velocities in order to make it work (which, I believe, is tough for a rail gun)
the pen and paper does not archive itself and is not back searchable.
not if apple is sued to hell for encouraging consumers to "rip mix burn" potentially "pirated" files. The device innovation goes away if it becomes too risky to create a device that serves consumers in any way.
First, can anyone help me understand the child exploitation piece of this? I clearly understand that it's a veiled (thinly) threat at music "pirates," but I don't see ANY possible explanation of the veil itself.
Second, no VCR makers or users will be under pressure from this bill! Nobody commits copyright infringement on those anymore. It's Apple you have to worry about. "rip mix burn" and a convenient device with which to do so constitute aid and inducement more than anything else I can think of.
actually, the VCR owners (and manufacturers) will be fine--nobody pirates those anymore. It'll be apple who he really screws--rip, mix, burn constitutes aiding and inducement if anything does, and I challenge you to produce more than 1% of iPods that don't have "pirated" stuff on them.
which would you rather have--your vcr and ipod, or the ability to watch steamboat willy anytime you want?
Yeah, it's horrifyingly broad. But, that doesn't mean it can't pass.
Um, I thought the matrix dvd only had 5.1 and back...
10.1 pounds? an hour of battery life? Jesus, why bother? That's absolutely terrible.
Rental copies run $100-$131 for DVDs. A few big chains negotiate 20+% discounts off that, but don't think the studios don't get paid from rentals. When blockbuster buys twenty copies of a big new movie for each of its thousands of stores, the studios get paid just fine.
Sure sure, I've gotcha. Agreed.
I recall some recent reports stating that the majority of commercial spam in the US is domestic in origin, not international. I don't have time to look them up now, but you might check your facts. But I agree--it doesn't make it easier.
I completely agree. How do you intend to enforce such a registry? People are forever insulting the gov't for creating unenforceable laws, and the FCC is right to hold back. You must remember that CAN-SPAM makes it a civil crime, while a national registry would make it a federal crime, requiring the gov't to spend money trying cases that obviously won't be won (and could also implicate a lot of innocents).
dude, calm down. it's entirely possible that he meant slack-jawed people, and not just anyone from the country or who's "blue-collar."
I used to agree with you, but if it weren't for forward looking scientific analysis, we'd never have the foresight to preemptively take care of future problems which are sure to arrive. Specifically in this case, knowing that we'll hit this point in the future might lend the foresight to extend the retirement age beyond its present time. While you may be no more personally interested in the story than I am in hardened PHP, it doesn't mean the story is irrelevent or shouldn't be published.