By far the best driving sim I have ever played was Gran Turismo. If there is anything better for PC please let me know. The last flight sim I played on a console was the ancient Top Gun NES game. It was really unrealistic, but pretty fun for an old sim. It is nothing like the PC sims that were available at the time like F-16 Eagle from Microprose.
I think Herbert Hoover was an engineer as well. Sounds like engineers have a pretty great record as presidents. Perhaps it is because only the dumb engineers seek political office.
The 2002 Infinty Q45 is drive by wire. I think Mercedes and BMW have had drive by wire for some time in their higher end models. The new 350Z, and Infinity g35 are also both drive by wire. I don't know but would guess that Caddilac Lincoln and Lexus have drive by wire vehicles as well.
Its not about the monopoly, but you are close, the network effects of software are why the monopoly formed. The value of an operating system to a potential new user increases with each current user and more importantly developer. If a developer creates a software package for Windows on a pirated version of Windows, and others buys Windows specifically to use that software package, letting the developer pirate Windows was a net benefit for Microsoft. This is why Microsoft generally gives away copies of Windows and Visual Studio to likely developers. However, music is not affected by network effects to the same level. Sure there is some benefit to culturally influential listeners playing your music, which is why critics, radio stations, and DJs can sometimes recieve early copies of a record, to stimulate demand. When everyone can trade music wholesale, the record companies fear too many lost sales outweigh the advertising benefits. Also consider that the RIAA is less likely to go after a Chinese piracy problem, since the gains from removing piracy are more limited, than they are in the US, where spending on music is much higher.
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You will probably calculate OGRs unless you change your settings.
If you look hard enough at the hobby websites and ebay, you should be able to score a nice hardware raid card that will do Ultra2 or Ultra SCSI or an IDE RAID card for under $100. That would greatly reduce your CPU load, making a Pentium or PPro machine more feasable.
Economists would say the time to quit is when the net benefits of quitting equal the net benefits of staying in business. Unfortunately, most businesses are run by managment teams who are employed by the business, so thier incentives are different from the owners of the business. Which is why you occasionally see hostile takeovers to sell of the assets of the business.
I remembered the floating point but I thought the lead was smaller but still there in integer performance. Sorry for not looking before I posted. From my view looking at market share it appears that floating point is pretty important to workstation performance. x86 workstations really didn't take off until floating point performance became competitive with the RISC chips, about the time the PII/Pro were introduced. They had held a significant price advantage for quite some time before that, and they have only gained share as performance become closer to equal. I charted all of the major achitectures over time for a report at work, and I still don't understand why Alphas never sold like gangbusters.
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The dirty secret of arbitrage is that there isn't any real arbitrage left. You have to take some risk to get any profit. Look at LTCM and Enron, both of which were supposed to be fully hedged, and riskless. Arbitrage, or atleast the hope of it is what keeps our system from turning into a deflationary economy like Japan's. Arbs do things like buying bad loans in the hope of either selling the company's assests or waiting for repayment. Others do keep prices even across exchanges, and they are usually the main source of liquidity in an exchange. Arbitrage is more than just a few rich financiers though, arbitrage or at least riskless gains, even if they don't involve instant buys and sells, are a pretty big part of most human decisions. Even something like picking the best produce at the store, is to some extent an arbitrage decision. Used cars, with the information disparity is another. Almost every business should sell its outputs for more than its inputs cost, which while not completely riskless, is pretty close. You are quite right about engineers learing finance, and it would probably do them well to learn some. Even the little bit of engineering and mostly math, that I learned puts me head and shoulders above most of my collegues. The problem solving skills are pretty similar in both fields. I picked the sig though, because I love microeconomics, and arbitrage is one of the cornerstones of why capitalist economies work, and others don't.
Too bad they don't have any money left to move. They are probably canning his whole division, not for misconduct but to save costs. This is probably the worst managment of some of the best laboratories in the world. And the lab did sell stuff to customers who borrowed money from them in an attempt to boost revenues. It only worked until the customers went bankrupt, and Lucent had to take several big hits to their bottom line. Their sales still have not returned to growth.
This is Lucent, not your local Bell. They all split off of AT&T as part of an anti-trust settlement. They probably got some of the equipment sales, but Lucent was not sending sales teams to your customers. That is pretty evil, and if you see it again, you might go before the local Public Utility Commission, to restrict or penalize them.
I saw a story about a newly graduated ME in china who went home and told his folks that he was an engineer, and his father replied, that is great son, you're driving trains. How did the job titles arise? Were the original train engineers actual engineers? Is it because they worked in the engine of the train? I have heard that some of the town names in the West arrived because the engineers named them after their colleges or their girlfriend's colleges.
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A hearty amen, I was just one of the many who proved that lim(gpa->0)engineer->business major. After I somehow passed DifEQ II, I realized that engineering was not for me and to studied finance, I saw that on a shirt that the MEs were selling. I almost got one as a joke to wear to business classes. Almost all the finance majors had begun in engineering.
They do their bee dance of course. Bees have a very intricate dance that shows other bees where pollen is, I think scientists had learned how to interpret this dance, if the bees returned and did their dance, humans could go and detonate the mine, or the bees could collectivly sting it repeatedly.
Ogg drop was nice but I wish it would remember my settings. It is annoying to have to specify them each time. Happily EAC remembers for the command line encoder.
Actually its been the clutch on mine, once rebuilt the engine has been a trooper, but I can't seem to keep the throwout bearing in alignment, and I get to pull the engine to find the problem.
You can get all the scores with benchmarks going back to CPU 92 and up to CPU2000, as well as other benchmarks, web, web w/ SSL, and others from Spec.org. Incidentally the current kings of the roost (integer and floating point) are IBM's Power4 and Itaniums. Alpha's were ahead and are likely to regain the speed advantage when the EV7 comes out.
I always thought that the chance it wouldn't start and/or go anywhere was part of the fun of owning a British car. Its the car gods letting you know you should stay home instead of going to the pub. I have had an Austin-Healey since high school, and have hardly driven it at all, but when it runs, its a great car.
A friend's PS2 DVD drive bit the dust last month. He was wishing he had bought the extened warrenty when it first started making noises. I guess the store he bought it from allows extened warrenty purchases a while after inital purchase.
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You are exactly right, its pretty funny watching the analysts scatch their heads and wonder why Microsoft is selling a product that has no hope of ever coming close to being as profitable as their current offerings, even after including the game license fees. They generally decided that it was all about growth, since PCs have generally slowed.
I should really make this a text file so I don't have to type it each time...
The McDonald's case, although popular belief would hold otherwise, was actually a reasonably good decision. The story brought to the jury, which is all that is allowed to be decided upon, goes as such. The lady recieved second and third degree burns all around her lower torso and legs, to the extent that quite a bit of plastic surgery was required. However even including reimbursment for medical bills and pain and suffering the compensatory damage was very small (160,000 USD). I think almost everyone can agree that was probably fair, since it compensates her for her lost time, and expenses. The rest of the judgement was punative, and was intended to punish the McDonalds corporation for their behavior. Keep in mind that the verdict was probably calculated as a result of McDonald's finances. It was later reduced to 3 times compensatory damages.
What sort of behavior would incite a jury to want to punish the company like that? Well, first of all realize that coffee is usually served around 160 F (~71 C), which will not produce the burns she suffered. The coffee was estimated to be about 190 F (~87 C), by medical experts, from the nature and severity of the burns. McDonald's was not errant in keeping their coffee this hot, it was corporate policy. The policy was designed to save money, because hotter coffee lasted longer before dispoal was required. The jury deemed this action so negligent that they decided to punish the company, hense the judgement.
You can read much more than I wish to type here, at a consumer's attorney page here.
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By far the best driving sim I have ever played was Gran Turismo. If there is anything better for PC please let me know. The last flight sim I played on a console was the ancient Top Gun NES game. It was really unrealistic, but pretty fun for an old sim. It is nothing like the PC sims that were available at the time like F-16 Eagle from Microprose.
I think Herbert Hoover was an engineer as well. Sounds like engineers have a pretty great record as presidents. Perhaps it is because only the dumb engineers seek political office.
The 2002 Infinty Q45 is drive by wire. I think Mercedes and BMW have had drive by wire for some time in their higher end models. The new 350Z, and Infinity g35 are also both drive by wire. I don't know but would guess that Caddilac Lincoln and Lexus have drive by wire vehicles as well.
I really like ambient when I am working. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy classical as well, but more when I am relaxing.
Its not about the monopoly, but you are close, the network effects of software are why the monopoly formed. The value of an operating system to a potential new user increases with each current user and more importantly developer. If a developer creates a software package for Windows on a pirated version of Windows, and others buys Windows specifically to use that software package, letting the developer pirate Windows was a net benefit for Microsoft. This is why Microsoft generally gives away copies of Windows and Visual Studio to likely developers.
However, music is not affected by network effects to the same level. Sure there is some benefit to culturally influential listeners playing your music, which is why critics, radio stations, and DJs can sometimes recieve early copies of a record, to stimulate demand. When everyone can trade music wholesale, the record companies fear too many lost sales outweigh the advertising benefits. Also consider that the RIAA is less likely to go after a Chinese piracy problem, since the gains from removing piracy are more limited, than they are in the US, where spending on music is much higher.
You will probably calculate OGRs unless you change your settings.
If you look hard enough at the hobby websites and ebay, you should be able to score a nice hardware raid card that will do Ultra2 or Ultra SCSI or an IDE RAID card for under $100. That would greatly reduce your CPU load, making a Pentium or PPro machine more feasable.
Economists would say the time to quit is when the net benefits of quitting equal the net benefits of staying in business. Unfortunately, most businesses are run by managment teams who are employed by the business, so thier incentives are different from the owners of the business. Which is why you occasionally see hostile takeovers to sell of the assets of the business.
I remembered the floating point but I thought the lead was smaller but still there in integer performance. Sorry for not looking before I posted. From my view looking at market share it appears that floating point is pretty important to workstation performance. x86 workstations really didn't take off until floating point performance became competitive with the RISC chips, about the time the PII/Pro were introduced. They had held a significant price advantage for quite some time before that, and they have only gained share as performance become closer to equal. I charted all of the major achitectures over time for a report at work, and I still don't understand why Alphas never sold like gangbusters.
The dirty secret of arbitrage is that there isn't any real arbitrage left. You have to take some risk to get any profit. Look at LTCM and Enron, both of which were supposed to be fully hedged, and riskless. Arbitrage, or atleast the hope of it is what keeps our system from turning into a deflationary economy like Japan's. Arbs do things like buying bad loans in the hope of either selling the company's assests or waiting for repayment. Others do keep prices even across exchanges, and they are usually the main source of liquidity in an exchange. Arbitrage is more than just a few rich financiers though, arbitrage or at least riskless gains, even if they don't involve instant buys and sells, are a pretty big part of most human decisions. Even something like picking the best produce at the store, is to some extent an arbitrage decision. Used cars, with the information disparity is another. Almost every business should sell its outputs for more than its inputs cost, which while not completely riskless, is pretty close.
You are quite right about engineers learing finance, and it would probably do them well to learn some. Even the little bit of engineering and mostly math, that I learned puts me head and shoulders above most of my collegues. The problem solving skills are pretty similar in both fields. I picked the sig though, because I love microeconomics, and arbitrage is one of the cornerstones of why capitalist economies work, and others don't.
Too bad they don't have any money left to move. They are probably canning his whole division, not for misconduct but to save costs. This is probably the worst managment of some of the best laboratories in the world.
And the lab did sell stuff to customers who borrowed money from them in an attempt to boost revenues. It only worked until the customers went bankrupt, and Lucent had to take several big hits to their bottom line. Their sales still have not returned to growth.
This is Lucent, not your local Bell. They all split off of AT&T as part of an anti-trust settlement. They probably got some of the equipment sales, but Lucent was not sending sales teams to your customers. That is pretty evil, and if you see it again, you might go before the local Public Utility Commission, to restrict or penalize them.
I saw a story about a newly graduated ME in china who went home and told his folks that he was an engineer, and his father replied, that is great son, you're driving trains. How did the job titles arise? Were the original train engineers actual engineers? Is it because they worked in the engine of the train? I have heard that some of the town names in the West arrived because the engineers named them after their colleges or their girlfriend's colleges.
A hearty amen, I was just one of the many who proved that lim(gpa->0)engineer->business major. After I somehow passed DifEQ II, I realized that engineering was not for me and to studied finance, I saw that on a shirt that the MEs were selling. I almost got one as a joke to wear to business classes. Almost all the finance majors had begun in engineering.
They do their bee dance of course. Bees have a very intricate dance that shows other bees where pollen is, I think scientists had learned how to interpret this dance, if the bees returned and did their dance, humans could go and detonate the mine, or the bees could collectivly sting it repeatedly.
Ogg drop was nice but I wish it would remember my settings. It is annoying to have to specify them each time. Happily EAC remembers for the command line encoder.
Actually its been the clutch on mine, once rebuilt the engine has been a trooper, but I can't seem to keep the throwout bearing in alignment, and I get to pull the engine to find the problem.
You can get all the scores with benchmarks going back to CPU 92 and up to CPU2000, as well as other benchmarks, web, web w/ SSL, and others from Spec.org. Incidentally the current kings of the roost (integer and floating point) are IBM's Power4 and Itaniums. Alpha's were ahead and are likely to regain the speed advantage when the EV7 comes out.
I always thought that the chance it wouldn't start and/or go anywhere was part of the fun of owning a British car. Its the car gods letting you know you should stay home instead of going to the pub. I have had an Austin-Healey since high school, and have hardly driven it at all, but when it runs, its a great car.
Yeah, but with RISC chips you have to change the heat sink bearings a lot more often.
A friend's PS2 DVD drive bit the dust last month. He was wishing he had bought the extened warrenty when it first started making noises. I guess the store he bought it from allows extened warrenty purchases a while after inital purchase.
You are exactly right, its pretty funny watching the analysts scatch their heads and wonder why Microsoft is selling a product that has no hope of ever coming close to being as profitable as their current offerings, even after including the game license fees. They generally decided that it was all about growth, since PCs have generally slowed.
Anyone else find the user ids of the parent and grandparent pretty ironic?
That was an excellent design and a worthy use of flash.
I should really make this a text file so I don't have to type it each time...
The McDonald's case, although popular belief would hold otherwise, was actually a reasonably good decision. The story brought to the jury, which is all that is allowed to be decided upon, goes as such. The lady recieved second and third degree burns all around her lower torso and legs, to the extent that quite a bit of plastic surgery was required. However even including reimbursment for medical bills and pain and suffering the compensatory damage was very small (160,000 USD). I think almost everyone can agree that was probably fair, since it compensates her for her lost time, and expenses. The rest of the judgement was punative, and was intended to punish the McDonalds corporation for their behavior. Keep in mind that the verdict was probably calculated as a result of McDonald's finances. It was later reduced to 3 times compensatory damages.
What sort of behavior would incite a jury to want to punish the company like that? Well, first of all realize that coffee is usually served around 160 F (~71 C), which will not produce the burns she suffered. The coffee was estimated to be about 190 F (~87 C), by medical experts, from the nature and severity of the burns. McDonald's was not errant in keeping their coffee this hot, it was corporate policy. The policy was designed to save money, because hotter coffee lasted longer before dispoal was required. The jury deemed this action so negligent that they decided to punish the company, hense the judgement.
You can read much more than I wish to type here, at a consumer's attorney page here.