I just bought a new (to me) vehicle, and this is a good point. The payments on a new 2004 Honda Accord were about $320 / month for a 60 month loan - a two-year lease was $210 a month. Since it seems most Americans are constantly making payments anyway, which one is cheaper?
joke about "explosive flip-flops" in the air-port?
It took me a good 30 seconds to realize that the flip-flops you were speaking of were some kind of footware, and not a digital memory component. Man, some days I just peg the geek-o-meter. I suppose it could be explained by the fact that I just watched a tantalum capacitor ignite and leap off the PCB on my desk, just because some damn fool plugged it in backwards.
Okay - you've developed the process, but a process is just that, a way of doing something. Your patented process won't ever actually create oil from plants to use your example. If you actually want to make oil, you'll need some sort of machine to do it, even if it is just pouring Flask A into Jar B. Now you have something to patent
So...what happened to your $40k? Did you blow it all on elephant rides?
Why not invest your savings, live on you Indian salary, and then have MORE $$ than you had when you mov.ed there? It seems the "You've only made $8k a year for 5 years, so you're screwed if you try to move" argument doesn't seem to hold water
Okay, the story with the whole McDonald's thing seems silly, but the fact is that McD's was serveing coffee that was WAY hotter than the maximum allowable. They lost not because their coffee burned someone, but the severity of the burns she received should not have been possible if they were following the FDA rules.
By your reasoning, if Clorox decided to put 100% bleach into the bleach containers without telling anyone and not the diluted 2% stuff we're used to, they shouldn't be liable when someone's hand melts off after spilling it on themselves.
The US is about ready to sell bush to the highest bidder.
Ironically, this statement is equally true no matter how you interpret the phrase "sell bush", especially since we're discussing whoring out politicians.
Of course, the easy thing to do here would be just to make a comment about someone's mother, and be done with it.
I agree. If you recall, some of the most important discoveries to come out of the moon missions weren't what we found out on the moon - they were what we discovered trying to figure out how to get there.
I have only one major annoyance on OS X, and it is this -
If I close the last Firebird window, I have to do an Cmd+N or File->New to get a new browser window. With Safari I can simply click on the dock icon. Same problem with T-bird
Has anybody else had this problem and know of a work-around?
IANAL, but it seems to me that the public may never see the actual code, since I believe SCO can file to have the evidence sealed to protect their IP from those who would steal it. All SCO has to do is say to the judge "Look, these Linux hippies have already stolen our IP - If we allowed them to see anything elss, they'd try to steal that too!"
If SCO wins and manages to keep the court evidence sealed, things are bad for Linux in general. They can simply go around and demand liscense fees from anybody using Linux, without ever telling anyone exactly what it is they're paying for, and the Linux community would be more or less helpless to remove the offending code short of re-writing anything in the kernal whose origin can't be totally nailed down.
Of course, this is fairly unlikely. But just because a million geeks keep shouting "Show us the code and we'll remove it!" doesn't mean we'll ever find out what it is. In fact, it is in SCO's best interest that nobody EVER see the code, and I'm sure they'll do what they can to keep it that way.
Don't they have some ethical/moral obligation to take care of their own as well?
Quite simply, no. A CEO's job is to do what is best for the company, period. If this means moving everything but the CEO's office overseas, then so be it.
Of course, American companies are notorious for being short-sighted, since just because something will save a few bucks today, it might not be in the best interest of the company in the long run.
Everybody focuses on the next quarterly report and the stock value - but these indicators often don't really have much to do with the actual health of a company. A CEO whose stock value goes down won't be CEO for long, and after all they want to remain employed just like the rest of us. Thus, they take the easy way out of short-term gains, since it makes them look good.
The real problem here is the total focus on stock price as the only indicator of a company's value.
Sorry, won't work. EZ-Pass is a passive electronic transponder. There's no closed powered circuit to "shut off" with a switch.
So it's comprised of some sort of electronics, right? Something that might require a "circuit" of some kind? Adding a switch of some kind will DEFINITELY make it not work anymore, regardless of whether the thing has a battery or gets powered through some sort of induction process.
Maybe some of them are open on purpose? Like Starbuck's and so forth?
There's no way Starbucks APs could be included in this survey, since he only found a little over 2000 APs in 75 minutes.
Assuming the plane is traveling about 60 mpH, that's 75 miles of distance covered. 2000 APs / 75 mi ~= 26 APs/mile. That is certainly less than the average Starbucks density. They don't like being more than about 50 feet apart.
Not to be a Simpsons/baseball snob, but I believe the term is 'dingers'. Although now that you mention it, seeing Mark McGwire hit some Zingers would be fun too...
If companies are held financially liable it will force them to do a better job of programming and testing software.
I realize I'm sort of feeding a troll here, but everytime this sort of "Company A wrote buggy code" thing comes up, somebody starts harping for the company to have to be responsible for their code. Say Microsoft has to be financially responsible for the problems generated from their code - they'll just change the EULA to say "If this software kills your system or eats your children, it's not our problem. If you don't like it, use something else." In fact, I'm pretty sure it says about that right now.
Of course, we could pass some sort of law saying that companies couldn't EULA their way out of responsibility, but that carries another whole bag of worms with it. Do you really want to be responsible for all the code you write for all time? That sort of thing would kill free software as we know it, since only large corporations would have deep enough pockets to fully test their stuff AND be prepared to fend off the inevitable lawsuits.
If SCO doesn't win its claim, you can have them pay your legal and court fees.
Of course, if SCO doesn't win their stock will tank, they'll be so deep in Chapter 11 they won't have any money to pay your court or legal fees.
Suing IBM for SCO is win-win. Let's make the following assumption: SCO was going to tank anyway, since they weren't shipping product, and what they had wasn't that good anyway. Keeping that in mind, let's examine the possible outcomes:
1) SCO wins the suit against IBM: SCO can go on a lawsuit spree and sue everybody, and most will probably settle out of court. SCO wins
2) IBM settles: SCO has a big pot of $$ to send lawyers after other people. SCO wins.
3) IBM buys SCO: SCO becomes IBM, and investors make bank. SCO wins.
4)SCO gets laughed out of court: SCO tanks, but has no money to pay off any court costs and ends up dead. So what? They were dying anyway. SCO loses, but not much.
So if we assume SCO was going to die anyway and had no product, their strategy of suing people isn't so ludicrous - in fact it's perfectly sane. Look at their stock recently, nobody can argue that SCO hasn't been extremely succesful in the one way that matters to most investors.
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Oh no, Godzilla is destroying Nordstrom's!
I just bought a new (to me) vehicle, and this is a good point. The payments on a new 2004 Honda Accord were about $320 / month for a 60 month loan - a two-year lease was $210 a month. Since it seems most Americans are constantly making payments anyway, which one is cheaper?
- joke about "explosive flip-flops" in the air-port?
It took me a good 30 seconds to realize that the flip-flops you were speaking of were some kind of footware, and not a digital memory component. Man, some days I just peg the geek-o-meter. I suppose it could be explained by the fact that I just watched a tantalum capacitor ignite and leap off the PCB on my desk, just because some damn fool plugged it in backwards.Okay - you've developed the process, but a process is just that, a way of doing something. Your patented process won't ever actually create oil from plants to use your example. If you actually want to make oil, you'll need some sort of machine to do it, even if it is just pouring Flask A into Jar B. Now you have something to patent
You forgot wiener.mobile!
Who is this Jack fellow! We all know that all astronauts are named Buzz...
Poor, predictable ultrafunkula. Always chooses rock.
Why not invest your savings, live on you Indian salary, and then have MORE $$ than you had when you mov.ed there? It seems the "You've only made $8k a year for 5 years, so you're screwed if you try to move" argument doesn't seem to hold water
By your reasoning, if Clorox decided to put 100% bleach into the bleach containers without telling anyone and not the diluted 2% stuff we're used to, they shouldn't be liable when someone's hand melts off after spilling it on themselves.
Ironically, this statement is equally true no matter how you interpret the phrase "sell bush", especially since we're discussing whoring out politicians.
Of course, the easy thing to do here would be just to make a comment about someone's mother, and be done with it.
Yes, a crime has been committed. Copyright infringement.
I agree. If you recall, some of the most important discoveries to come out of the moon missions weren't what we found out on the moon - they were what we discovered trying to figure out how to get there.
If I close the last Firebird window, I have to do an Cmd+N or File->New to get a new browser window. With Safari I can simply click on the dock icon. Same problem with T-bird
Has anybody else had this problem and know of a work-around?
I suggest hiring from Azuma Corp.
If SCO wins and manages to keep the court evidence sealed, things are bad for Linux in general. They can simply go around and demand liscense fees from anybody using Linux, without ever telling anyone exactly what it is they're paying for, and the Linux community would be more or less helpless to remove the offending code short of re-writing anything in the kernal whose origin can't be totally nailed down.
Of course, this is fairly unlikely. But just because a million geeks keep shouting "Show us the code and we'll remove it!" doesn't mean we'll ever find out what it is. In fact, it is in SCO's best interest that nobody EVER see the code, and I'm sure they'll do what they can to keep it that way.
Quite simply, no. A CEO's job is to do what is best for the company, period. If this means moving everything but the CEO's office overseas, then so be it.
Of course, American companies are notorious for being short-sighted, since just because something will save a few bucks today, it might not be in the best interest of the company in the long run.
Everybody focuses on the next quarterly report and the stock value - but these indicators often don't really have much to do with the actual health of a company. A CEO whose stock value goes down won't be CEO for long, and after all they want to remain employed just like the rest of us. Thus, they take the easy way out of short-term gains, since it makes them look good.
The real problem here is the total focus on stock price as the only indicator of a company's value.
So it's comprised of some sort of electronics, right? Something that might require a "circuit" of some kind? Adding a switch of some kind will DEFINITELY make it not work anymore, regardless of whether the thing has a battery or gets powered through some sort of induction process.
There's no way Starbucks APs could be included in this survey, since he only found a little over 2000 APs in 75 minutes.
Assuming the plane is traveling about 60 mpH, that's 75 miles of distance covered. 2000 APs / 75 mi ~= 26 APs/mile. That is certainly less than the average Starbucks density. They don't like being more than about 50 feet apart.
But the eMachine comes with a free Frogurt!
But the Frogurt is cursed!
But it comes with your choice of toppings!
Not to be a Simpsons/baseball snob, but I believe the term is 'dingers'. Although now that you mention it, seeing Mark McGwire hit some Zingers would be fun too...
- If companies are held financially liable it will force them to do a better job of programming and testing software.
I realize I'm sort of feeding a troll here, but everytime this sort of "Company A wrote buggy code" thing comes up, somebody starts harping for the company to have to be responsible for their code. Say Microsoft has to be financially responsible for the problems generated from their code - they'll just change the EULA to say "If this software kills your system or eats your children, it's not our problem. If you don't like it, use something else." In fact, I'm pretty sure it says about that right now.Of course, we could pass some sort of law saying that companies couldn't EULA their way out of responsibility, but that carries another whole bag of worms with it. Do you really want to be responsible for all the code you write for all time? That sort of thing would kill free software as we know it, since only large corporations would have deep enough pockets to fully test their stuff AND be prepared to fend off the inevitable lawsuits.
Even worse, your Nutri-matic drink dispenser could start producing beverages that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Of course, if SCO doesn't win their stock will tank, they'll be so deep in Chapter 11 they won't have any money to pay your court or legal fees.
Suing IBM for SCO is win-win. Let's make the following assumption: SCO was going to tank anyway, since they weren't shipping product, and what they had wasn't that good anyway. Keeping that in mind, let's examine the possible outcomes:
So if we assume SCO was going to die anyway and had no product, their strategy of suing people isn't so ludicrous - in fact it's perfectly sane. Look at their stock recently, nobody can argue that SCO hasn't been extremely succesful in the one way that matters to most investors.1) SCO wins the suit against IBM: SCO can go on a lawsuit spree and sue everybody, and most will probably settle out of court. SCO wins
2) IBM settles: SCO has a big pot of $$ to send lawyers after other people. SCO wins.
3) IBM buys SCO: SCO becomes IBM, and investors make bank. SCO wins.
4)SCO gets laughed out of court: SCO tanks, but has no money to pay off any court costs and ends up dead. So what? They were dying anyway. SCO loses, but not much.
Actually, I think asking God to give some damages to SCO is exactly what we need. Preferably in the form of a mudslide or something.
"Those pants don't make your butt look big."
vs.
"Those pants don't make your butt look big."
Note that the first sentence is polite, but the second will cause you to end up on the couch.