In fact most of them currently think that IE is "the internet".
Hahaha how true how true.
Microsoft is going to slowly but surely eat away at Google. Expect GOOG to fall to ~200 in next few months. $300 is a little high for a company that DOESN'T PAY DIVIDENDS and instead of giving financials tells reports about their chef. Google is great, but it is still a bubble.
it's not "untethered". it's sitting ON a control and power grid. so they turned the tether into a grid? i really don't see how that's neat. that's just a name change. i mean the robot's cool, but it's hardly untethered. it can't exactly run loose in the lab, or the street, or...
what's been going on with inflation is that the dollar has devalued by a large margin in the middle of world-wide recession. europe and japan aren't in good shape either, so they devalued their currencies as well. to do this, they bought U.S. Treasury Bills/Bonds/etc from the Fed.
you can get a good idea of inflation by how much money the Fed has to print. when foreigners buy so many Treasury Bonds, the Fed doesn't have to print much money, so inflation is contained.
it is a temporary phenomenon that has been on the decline since February.
there is also a few more things: the books are cooked. inflation measure (the 'main' CPI) doesn't include energy or food. also, it's not a level of inflation (prices). the Fed takes the prices and 'normalizes' the prices by converting them to some mystical representation of what those prices are 'worth' compared so some arbitrary point in the past. this means that you should not trust the CPI. what this means is very significant:
say you want a Ford, Circia 1960. A good car, right? as good gas miles as a current car. dependable. and you don't have to bring it to the dealer and pay $1k everytime it hiccups.
the car cost say $2k back in the day. can you buy it now for $2k? no. maybe $5k or $10k or $20k. furthermore, everything you do with it costs more---there just aren't that many people around who could maintain and sell you a Ford '60 because you can't buy a "new" '60 Ford. you have to buy a brand new 2005 Nissan. which, as you know, doesn't decline in price. when was the last time you bought a new car for $5k? you can't.
but the Fed says "ok, well whatever the Nissan is better, so really you've saved money" even though you haven't. you can find this on Wikipedia. i forget the term though. so CPI is ALWAYS higher than it is posted. there are reasons to back this up: think how many things in law are tied to the CPI. what if the CPI goes up? then social security payments go up. labour unions get more benefits. etc. etc. we're talking billions of dollars here for a minor uptick in the CPI.
anyway, if you look at the charts of prices since the gold standard was finally completely demolished, you'll see an exponential increase. an exponential increase in a few decades? yeah.
do NOT trust the inflation numbers. the costs of inflation are absorded in many ways that are not accounted for in the mythical, abstract, CPI.
need more proof? look at who's rich? it ain't your union boy. it's Wall Street, who makes tons of money not on trading smartly and better, but by duping your average person out of their money. it was true in the 1700s, and its true today.
and i'm being honest here. i know, because i'm completely drunk, and i make my living in finance and that's just the way it is. the books are cooked my friend.
... 35 hours is not imposed by the government, its demanded by the people. you're seriously telling me that we should hate the french cause they have more control over their government then others?
For the Americans who complain of the french 35 hour work week, and use it to explain the demise of the french economy and a host of associated profanities, I'd like to point out that Americans only do about 35 hours of work a week anyway.
Job surveys are pretty consistent: Americans waste at least an hour a day at work consciously fucking around on the internet, paying bills, etc.
So. Really, 5 hours is not that much time. The bigger problem is that all of Europe has high unemployment. It's a trade-off: less employment, lower inflation, higher benefits for their old, their sick, their poor. You're telling me you wouldn't pass up a bit of job security for full and free health care? It's not like us americans have job security anyway.
Besides, the ECB is committed to a wicked-low inflation target and that only means 1 thing: higher unemployment.
A million people. So you have money. And this is email. Is HAS to work all the time. Plus remote folders. Plus lots of backups for legal purposes. Plus supporting web front-end. Plus Outlook. Plus *nix. Plus generic. Plus accessible from around the world 24/7.
Outsource it, no question. Have the company sign a contract that assures they have to make it work and then forget about it. This is NOT something for a homegrown solution. SPEND THE MONEY, OUTSOURCE IT.
lol. a million people. you must have billions of income per year. spend a couple million of it already and forget about it. email is ridiculously vital in an organization of 1 mil. i work at a company of say 150k-300k and really, if i couldn't access my email at any time NO MATTER WHAT i'd shit a brick.
and i'm not even management. wait till your VPs/CEO can't get their email. you'll want to overdose on painkillers.
oh please. this isn't about respect. if i had any respect i wouldn't work for anyone else, would i?
besides there's a big difference between working with students and running a corporation that pays the salarys of what, 30,000 people?
when you're that size, nothing matters except GETTING THE JOB DONE, because otherwise you collapse rapidly. if it takes bitchy little shitheads, then so be it. but i guarantee you, the second Ballmer fucks up and doesn't do his job, he'll be gone.
the fact that he shouts is irrelevant and its immature of you to expect the guy to pay your salary, pay your healthcare, pay your schooling, provide you job security over decades of time, run a 40+ billion dollar company, while also raising his own family, and what, you also want him to be a nice guy? who gives a fuck? his job is to run the business, not hold your hand.
no, you don't. there is the government in the way. tax laws. natural disasters. inefficiencies (read: thermodynamics). differences in scale. etc. etc.
on all those fronts, the profit of a company is determined. if you want pure capitalism you need 0 government and 0 corporations. you can't have it both ways. Microsoft is just one company of billions all operating in similar fashion. this problem has nothing to do with Microsoft.
this isn't about children. he's the CEO of what the most powerful company on earth, give or take?. he can do whatever the fuck he wants. if he does something oh so terrible, tell the board and let them fire him. otherwise, you just sound like a snively little brat cause you can't handle people shouting or getting angry.
sometimes the best way to make money is to have a monopoly, hence crush the competition. DUH.
this is capitalism. this isn't lovey dovey bunnies and spices and shit. part of a corporation IS the legal tactics, the bribes, and illegality---that has a direct impact on this vague "healthy competition" that you mention.
Your view of things is naive to say the least, and ill-informed at best.
the purpose of competing with someone is to win, not loose. crushing someone is just competing very well. there's nothing wrong with capitalism here---what, you think you can turn it into a lovey dovey flowers and bunnies sort of thing?
if it was, people could be predicted, models could be measured, etc.... but they can't.
this is ridiculous. intelligence. bah. ask einstein what intelligence is. he would say: "what the fuck u talking about?"
remember: in einsteins last days he said, basically, "oh fuck, i'm a moron. i've always thought so."
intelligence is not measurable because that would require the brain to completly know itself, which, as we know, due to Turing/Godel/etc, is justn ot possible.
the real numbers are not countable. god, get a clue.
well, that's cause you don't really need to know the tech if you're a manager.
what you need to know is the _business_, i.e., how to turn that tech into _cash_. big difference. alot of times, knowing the tech is irrelevant to selling the product. i mean look at M$. they're just a marketing company that happens to be involved in software. it's not like they produce the A++++ products. but, they do make mad cash.
completely different worlds and completely different skills. seriously, its not like its easy sitting in a room full of carniverous V.P.s, explaining why your project is late. you can't just say "oh, the IDE RAID blah blah". they'd eat u alive.
a good manager is worth far more than a good programmer. that is, after all, why they get paid more. well, most of them. some programmers get paid more than managers. but they're exceptions, by and large.
the path of least resistence is steady deterioration. without constant effort/energy keeping information free, it becomes not free, as thermodynamics clearly states.
boffin: a cock who is also a cockblocker, who upon getting laid tells the entire world that said lady is easy.
aka, "But for many young people in Britain, it is indeed derogatory, but for a different reason. When it came into fashion among them some 20 years ago, it took on much the same sense that my generation gave to swot, as a disparaging description of someone good at school work--a person acknowledged to be brainy, but inoffensive and definitely not respected."
ok, lets get this strait. microsoft has a monopoly. which costs "us" 10 billion per year.
now, since microsoft makes, what, 38 billion a year in revenue?
doesn't that mean they're _not_ a monopoly?
i mean if they made 10 billion a year, but costs us 100 billion, then that would imply they're leaching 90billion from us. if they're "costing us" 10, but making 10 or more, aren't they just being efficient?
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Hahaha how true how true.
Microsoft is going to slowly but surely eat away at Google. Expect GOOG to fall to ~200 in next few months. $300 is a little high for a company that DOESN'T PAY DIVIDENDS and instead of giving financials tells reports about their chef. Google is great, but it is still a bubble.
it's not "untethered". it's sitting ON a control and power grid. so they turned the tether into a grid? i really don't see how that's neat. that's just a name change. i mean the robot's cool, but it's hardly untethered. it can't exactly run loose in the lab, or the street, or ...
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skewed in what way?
i mean i am sympaetheic to baked data. but examples? for my own sake.
4 years is too small a sample.
what's been going on with inflation is that the dollar has devalued by a large margin in the middle of world-wide recession. europe and japan aren't in good shape either, so they devalued their currencies as well. to do this, they bought U.S. Treasury Bills/Bonds/etc from the Fed.
you can get a good idea of inflation by how much money the Fed has to print. when foreigners buy so many Treasury Bonds, the Fed doesn't have to print much money, so inflation is contained.
it is a temporary phenomenon that has been on the decline since February.
there is also a few more things: the books are cooked. inflation measure (the 'main' CPI) doesn't include energy or food. also, it's not a level of inflation (prices). the Fed takes the prices and 'normalizes' the prices by converting them to some mystical representation of what those prices are 'worth' compared so some arbitrary point in the past. this means that you should not trust the CPI. what this means is very significant:
say you want a Ford, Circia 1960. A good car, right? as good gas miles as a current car. dependable. and you don't have to bring it to the dealer and pay $1k everytime it hiccups.
the car cost say $2k back in the day. can you buy it now for $2k? no. maybe $5k or $10k or $20k. furthermore, everything you do with it costs more---there just aren't that many people around who could maintain and sell you a Ford '60 because you can't buy a "new" '60 Ford. you have to buy a brand new 2005 Nissan. which, as you know, doesn't decline in price. when was the last time you bought a new car for $5k? you can't.
but the Fed says "ok, well whatever the Nissan is better, so really you've saved money" even though you haven't. you can find this on Wikipedia. i forget the term though. so CPI is ALWAYS higher than it is posted. there are reasons to back this up: think how many things in law are tied to the CPI. what if the CPI goes up? then social security payments go up. labour unions get more benefits. etc. etc. we're talking billions of dollars here for a minor uptick in the CPI.
anyway, if you look at the charts of prices since the gold standard was finally completely demolished, you'll see an exponential increase. an exponential increase in a few decades? yeah.
do NOT trust the inflation numbers. the costs of inflation are absorded in many ways that are not accounted for in the mythical, abstract, CPI.
need more proof? look at who's rich? it ain't your union boy. it's Wall Street, who makes tons of money not on trading smartly and better, but by duping your average person out of their money. it was true in the 1700s, and its true today.
and i'm being honest here. i know, because i'm completely drunk, and i make my living in finance and that's just the way it is. the books are cooked my friend.
i guess you didn't read the trade-off between job security and real life security?
or inflation and employment?
nice logical completeness, dude.
... 35 hours is not imposed by the government, its demanded by the people. you're seriously telling me that we should hate the french cause they have more control over their government then others?
For the Americans who complain of the french 35 hour work week, and use it to explain the demise of the french economy and a host of associated profanities, I'd like to point out that Americans only do about 35 hours of work a week anyway.
Job surveys are pretty consistent: Americans waste at least an hour a day at work consciously fucking around on the internet, paying bills, etc.
So. Really, 5 hours is not that much time. The bigger problem is that all of Europe has high unemployment. It's a trade-off: less employment, lower inflation, higher benefits for their old, their sick, their poor. You're telling me you wouldn't pass up a bit of job security for full and free health care? It's not like us americans have job security anyway.
Besides, the ECB is committed to a wicked-low inflation target and that only means 1 thing: higher unemployment.
Seconded!!!!
A million people. So you have money. And this is email. Is HAS to work all the time. Plus remote folders. Plus lots of backups for legal purposes. Plus supporting web front-end. Plus Outlook. Plus *nix. Plus generic. Plus accessible from around the world 24/7.
Outsource it, no question. Have the company sign a contract that assures they have to make it work and then forget about it. This is NOT something for a homegrown solution. SPEND THE MONEY, OUTSOURCE IT.
lol. a million people. you must have billions of income per year. spend a couple million of it already and forget about it. email is ridiculously vital in an organization of 1 mil. i work at a company of say 150k-300k and really, if i couldn't access my email at any time NO MATTER WHAT i'd shit a brick.
and i'm not even management. wait till your VPs/CEO can't get their email. you'll want to overdose on painkillers.
it's smaller.
battery lasts longer.
its more dependable.
has more space than shuffle, but smaller size.
color screen.
actually he offered his daughters to get raped because he didn't want his door to be broken. he loved that door, Lot.
exactly. M$ does well. maybe shouting works afterall. ;)
besides there's a big difference between working with students and running a corporation that pays the salarys of what, 30,000 people?
when you're that size, nothing matters except GETTING THE JOB DONE, because otherwise you collapse rapidly. if it takes bitchy little shitheads, then so be it. but i guarantee you, the second Ballmer fucks up and doesn't do his job, he'll be gone.
the fact that he shouts is irrelevant and its immature of you to expect the guy to pay your salary, pay your healthcare, pay your schooling, provide you job security over decades of time, run a 40+ billion dollar company, while also raising his own family, and what, you also want him to be a nice guy? who gives a fuck? his job is to run the business, not hold your hand.
no one said anything about giving up you turd. but keep patting yourself on the back if you want.
you want to fix it? fine. good luck. but you better think deeper than deep, because this problem has been going on since the dawn of agriculture.
your best bet is probably to stop the exponential increase in food production. otherwise, there'll always be plenty of graft to go around.
...
do you see pure capitalism anywhere?
no, you don't. there is the government in the way. tax laws. natural disasters. inefficiencies (read: thermodynamics). differences in scale. etc. etc.
on all those fronts, the profit of a company is determined. if you want pure capitalism you need 0 government and 0 corporations. you can't have it both ways. Microsoft is just one company of billions all operating in similar fashion. this problem has nothing to do with Microsoft.
dude, what are you talking about.
this isn't about children. he's the CEO of what the most powerful company on earth, give or take?. he can do whatever the fuck he wants. if he does something oh so terrible, tell the board and let them fire him. otherwise, you just sound like a snively little brat cause you can't handle people shouting or getting angry.
sometimes the best way to make money is to have a monopoly, hence crush the competition. DUH.
this is capitalism. this isn't lovey dovey bunnies and spices and shit. part of a corporation IS the legal tactics, the bribes, and illegality---that has a direct impact on this vague "healthy competition" that you mention.
Your view of things is naive to say the least, and ill-informed at best.
the purpose of competing with someone is to win, not loose. crushing someone is just competing very well. there's nothing wrong with capitalism here---what, you think you can turn it into a lovey dovey flowers and bunnies sort of thing?
of course it's relevant. it's relevant to everything. thats the point of those theorems.
anyway come back when you have a measurement of intelligence with predictive power. then we talk.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
bullshit.
if it was, people could be predicted, models could be measured, etc.... but they can't.
this is ridiculous. intelligence. bah. ask einstein what intelligence is. he would say: "what the fuck u talking about?"
remember: in einsteins last days he said, basically, "oh fuck, i'm a moron. i've always thought so."
intelligence is not measurable because that would require the brain to completly know itself, which, as we know, due to Turing/Godel/etc, is justn ot possible.
the real numbers are not countable. god, get a clue.
well, that's cause you don't really need to know the tech if you're a manager.
what you need to know is the _business_, i.e., how to turn that tech into _cash_. big difference. alot of times, knowing the tech is irrelevant to selling the product. i mean look at M$. they're just a marketing company that happens to be involved in software. it's not like they produce the A++++ products. but, they do make mad cash.
completely different worlds and completely different skills. seriously, its not like its easy sitting in a room full of carniverous V.P.s, explaining why your project is late. you can't just say "oh, the IDE RAID blah blah". they'd eat u alive.
a good manager is worth far more than a good programmer. that is, after all, why they get paid more. well, most of them. some programmers get paid more than managers. but they're exceptions, by and large.
so, to get a gmail account, i must now own a cellphone? what if I don't?
o, let me guess, can i buy a cellphone plan from google yet?
"cut down on spam"? yeah, bullshit reason if i ever saw one, especially with international customers still able to sign up normally.
google is really starting to throw its weight around these days...
has not happened yet. they have not sold the new stock. sheesh.
the path of least resistence is steady deterioration. without constant effort/energy keeping information free, it becomes not free, as thermodynamics clearly states.
aka, "But for many young people in Britain, it is indeed derogatory, but for a different reason. When it came into fashion among them some 20 years ago, it took on much the same sense that my generation gave to swot, as a disparaging description of someone good at school work--a person acknowledged to be brainy, but inoffensive and definitely not respected."
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-bof1 .htm
ok, lets get this strait. microsoft has a monopoly. which costs "us" 10 billion per year.
now, since microsoft makes, what, 38 billion a year in revenue?
doesn't that mean they're _not_ a monopoly?
i mean if they made 10 billion a year, but costs us 100 billion, then that would imply they're leaching 90billion from us. if they're "costing us" 10, but making 10 or more, aren't they just being efficient?