Actually, I think he did mean PS/2. PS/2 (Personal System/2) was a huge hardware initiative by IBM launched around 1987 or so, in an attempt to create a closed hardware specification that IBM could control.
How about we just create an "innovation tax" and tax the hell out of anyone who attempts to do something cool, new or innovative? Will that please you?
If we all work together, through the force of government, we can stifle anyone who attempts to create something new!
Hmmm. Let me check my WiFi PCMCIA card...yep it says right on the label "Complies with all FCC regulations."
Now I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I don't think my 802.11 signal is transmitting "Interstate".
Just goes to show you that give the government and inch and they take a mile. The only winning move is not to give them the inch in the first place.
And as far as who I'd rather have in control; I'd rather have private ownership of the airwaves, instead of political control.
I just checked my copy of the constitution, and as I suspected, I found no authority for the federal government to regulate electromagnetic radiation transmissions. I'll re-read it again though, just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
I did read something about "Congress shall make no law...", don't know what that's about. Has anyone told them that part?
I can only hope that you're being facetious and not seriously comparing gravity (falling out of a tree) to the slow process of a species evolving to adapt to a more advantageous, albeit initially hostile environment.
Nonetheless, if leaving the trees was such an easy thing to accomplish (as you state) why did so many of the other ape species fail to make the leap out of the trees? Perhaps they were not so inclined to obey the laws of gravity as we were?
Well seeing as our tree-dwelling ancestors didn't use printed currency, you are technically right, they didn't spend any money to leave the trees. Money, however, is just a tool for applying a value to something, labor is a better measure of a thing's value, and I assure you in terms of labor cost, they risked more than 1% of their GDP!
They risked their lives to leave the saftey of the trees and enter the plains where they were more susceptible to attack from predators and where the environment was harsher.
They did this of course because they had to to survive, just like we will have to leave Earth eventually to survive.
"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York." - Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, 1865
I'm glad we didn't have governments a million years ago, we'd all still be up in a tree in Africa somewhere deciding whether or not it was safe enough, or practical enough to go down to the ground.
To use my Mac version 20GB iPod on my WinXP Sony VAIO laptop, all I had to do was plug in the iPod, say "yes" to reformat the disk, then sync with iTunes (which I downloaded from Apple). It was very easy (contrary to what I had heard, and didn't require any third party software which I had also heard that I would need).
I usually create the Ghost image on a machine that has not yet joined the domain. It creates one more thing to do after imaging each computer, but it gets around the problem of not being able to login.
You may be right that there is more involved than what the story indicated. However, even if he was let go for the reasons stated, he doesn't have any case for dismissal, since he was never an MS employee. The main benefit for temps is that they're just that, temporary. Companys hire temps (and pay a premium to the actual company the temps work for: the employment agency) for just that reason, they can let them go whenever they want; and generally they don't have anywhere near the rights that normal employees have. Fair? Yes, it's fair as I'm sure MS has a air-tight agreement with the temp agency (if not, what are all those lawyers doing up in Redmond!). The temp agency is the one doing all of the payroll withholding, MS is simply contracting with them. The individual in this case, has much less rights than an employee does.
Anytime I can get 90% of the performance for 10% of the price, the choice is clear to me! However, I understand that we each have our likes/dislikes that make us unique, and some people like obtaining every last bit of performance/sound quality that they can get, regardless of cost.
For what it's worth, Mr. Teller said (at least later in life) that we should have high-altitude detonated the first bomb over Tokyo bay as a demonstration of power, where casualties would have been minimal.
They aren't the ones extending the copyright, they are simply trying to protect their property, just like they should be. The problem is that our government keeps extending the copyright for them, and then the courts back them up. It's the government at fault here, not private companies.
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Companies set aside a certain amount of money for payroll. Then they subtract from that amount all the HR overhead factors, such as sick time, vacation time, personal time, benefits, payroll taxes, etc. Wouldn't you rather simply get paid the full amount (minus taxes of course) and then have the benefit of managing your money yourself? If you want to take a lot of vacation you can; if you don't, then at least you aren't forced to subsidize everyone else's vacation and sick time. Just remember, every time a co-worker of yours takes more vacation/sick time than you do, you are indirectly funding that for them.
They are certainly allowed to make as much money as they are capable of.
I might also point out that they took a big gamble, not when making the sequels of course those are sure things, but when the studio fronted $60M (?) for the first film on two directors with ONE film (non-action at that) under their belts (as directors). That was a huge gamble, they won, and they deserve every penny they get.
My WinXP box has been rock solid for 6 months. It's up for weeks at a time, typically only rebooting after the occassional power outage (hmmm...maybe MS is causing the power outages...)
Although I have to say, while it gets much less use, my OS X box has been rock solid as well.
Windows and Mac OS have both come a long way in the past few years.
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You hit the nail on the head.
Actually, I think he did mean PS/2. PS/2 (Personal System/2) was a huge hardware initiative by IBM launched around 1987 or so, in an attempt to create a closed hardware specification that IBM could control.
How about we just create an "innovation tax" and tax the hell out of anyone who attempts to do something cool, new or innovative? Will that please you?
If we all work together, through the force of government, we can stifle anyone who attempts to create something new!
Yes you do have a choice:
Dempublicans or Libertarians
Exactly what part of "Congress shall make no law..." does Congress not understand?
Hmmm. Let me check my WiFi PCMCIA card...yep it says right on the label "Complies with all FCC regulations." Now I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I don't think my 802.11 signal is transmitting "Interstate". Just goes to show you that give the government and inch and they take a mile. The only winning move is not to give them the inch in the first place. And as far as who I'd rather have in control; I'd rather have private ownership of the airwaves, instead of political control.
I just checked my copy of the constitution, and as I suspected, I found no authority for the federal government to regulate electromagnetic radiation transmissions. I'll re-read it again though, just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
I did read something about "Congress shall make no law...", don't know what that's about. Has anyone told them that part?
Back in the day, I had a friend that would always tell customers at our service shop that they needed a RAM chip alignment.
I can only hope that you're being facetious and not seriously comparing gravity (falling out of a tree) to the slow process of a species evolving to adapt to a more advantageous, albeit initially hostile environment.
Nonetheless, if leaving the trees was such an easy thing to accomplish (as you state) why did so many of the other ape species fail to make the leap out of the trees? Perhaps they were not so inclined to obey the laws of gravity as we were?
Well seeing as our tree-dwelling ancestors didn't use printed currency, you are technically right, they didn't spend any money to leave the trees. Money, however, is just a tool for applying a value to something, labor is a better measure of a thing's value, and I assure you in terms of labor cost, they risked more than 1% of their GDP!
They risked their lives to leave the saftey of the trees and enter the plains where they were more susceptible to attack from predators and where the environment was harsher.
They did this of course because they had to to survive, just like we will have to leave Earth eventually to survive.
"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York." - Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, 1865
That's precisely the analogy I was drawing.
I'm glad we didn't have governments a million years ago, we'd all still be up in a tree in Africa somewhere deciding whether or not it was safe enough, or practical enough to go down to the ground.
Amen, well said! Mod parent up!
To use my Mac version 20GB iPod on my WinXP Sony VAIO laptop, all I had to do was plug in the iPod, say "yes" to reformat the disk, then sync with iTunes (which I downloaded from Apple). It was very easy (contrary to what I had heard, and didn't require any third party software which I had also heard that I would need).
I usually create the Ghost image on a machine that has not yet joined the domain. It creates one more thing to do after imaging each computer, but it gets around the problem of not being able to login.
You may be right that there is more involved than what the story indicated. However, even if he was let go for the reasons stated, he doesn't have any case for dismissal, since he was never an MS employee. The main benefit for temps is that they're just that, temporary. Companys hire temps (and pay a premium to the actual company the temps work for: the employment agency) for just that reason, they can let them go whenever they want; and generally they don't have anywhere near the rights that normal employees have. Fair? Yes, it's fair as I'm sure MS has a air-tight agreement with the temp agency (if not, what are all those lawyers doing up in Redmond!). The temp agency is the one doing all of the payroll withholding, MS is simply contracting with them. The individual in this case, has much less rights than an employee does.
Anytime I can get 90% of the performance for 10% of the price, the choice is clear to me! However, I understand that we each have our likes/dislikes that make us unique, and some people like obtaining every last bit of performance/sound quality that they can get, regardless of cost.
I hope everything goes successfully for the Chinese, and I hope that this is only the beginning for a long Chinese manned space program.
Additionally, let this serve as a wake-up call to us, that manned space exploration is a common goal and desire that we all share.
For what it's worth, Mr. Teller said (at least later in life) that we should have high-altitude detonated the first bomb over Tokyo bay as a demonstration of power, where casualties would have been minimal.
They aren't the ones extending the copyright, they are simply trying to protect their property, just like they should be. The problem is that our government keeps extending the copyright for them, and then the courts back them up. It's the government at fault here, not private companies.
Companies set aside a certain amount of money for payroll. Then they subtract from that amount all the HR overhead factors, such as sick time, vacation time, personal time, benefits, payroll taxes, etc. Wouldn't you rather simply get paid the full amount (minus taxes of course) and then have the benefit of managing your money yourself? If you want to take a lot of vacation you can; if you don't, then at least you aren't forced to subsidize everyone else's vacation and sick time. Just remember, every time a co-worker of yours takes more vacation/sick time than you do, you are indirectly funding that for them.
Which bank do you use that requires that you write anything except your signature in cursive?
They are certainly allowed to make as much money as they are capable of.
I might also point out that they took a big gamble, not when making the sequels of course those are sure things, but when the studio fronted $60M (?) for the first film on two directors with ONE film (non-action at that) under their belts (as directors). That was a huge gamble, they won, and they deserve every penny they get.
My WinXP box has been rock solid for 6 months. It's up for weeks at a time, typically only rebooting after the occassional power outage (hmmm...maybe MS is causing the power outages...) Although I have to say, while it gets much less use, my OS X box has been rock solid as well. Windows and Mac OS have both come a long way in the past few years.
Yes, even if you think it's funny.