Do you recall the paper that came up with several types of people who's performance at their career dropped dramatically upon marriage? Scientists and Criminals were both people who experienced the drop in outstanding performance.
We played it on the LAN, but my friends would agonize over certain decisions or someone would get involved in a 30 on 30 Doom Star battle and then the game was basically shot as the rest of us would start drinking at that point. I tried a few games of MOO3 online with a friend, but that one seems to take days to get far enough to have explored a decent portion of the galaxy. If we want non FPS multiplayer games it usually falls to Diablo or HoMM on a small map.
It's too bad Atari? doesn't clean up the graphics of the first game for quick multiplayer games it was very simple (your only industry was builing factories or a single planitary advancement and you set all your spending using about 3 screens of bars (ship, industry, environment, research and perhaps one other one). It is a lot like Moo 3 without the additional detail levels that you can drill into. No star lanes either you just traveled based on distance. A small galaxy could be fighting in an hour or so.
Yeah but if you buy half spoiled or underripe oranges for half the price of good ones the orange juice will not be the same as the firm that chooses the better ones. Until about 10 years ago store brands tended to err on the side of cheap, now stores realize that they make about twice the margin on store branded items so they the major retailers have done a better job promoting quality. In my opinion Aldi kicks the quality up a notch or two on most national brands (their fruit pies, frozen pizzas, chocolate, and produce are generally better than I can get from anyone else in the area (NoVA). They don't advertise and so have more flexibility than a retailer who is spending 10% of sales on marketing). Costco does similar things with their store brands, I think of Aldi as Costco for singles.
Until they develop a controller for my PC that is even close to the one on the Arcade I'll keep feeding a quarter into the machine each time I pass one.
Was Maelstron the old game where you defended a planet called harmony? I bought that years ago and poured over the manual but the 6th disk was corrupt and the company had long since gone under by the time I fished it out of the bargain bin. I finally downloaded it of a warez site and got it sorta running on win2k but it locked up too much to play.
It's only flaws were insanly long multiplayer turns at the end of the game and the let down of MOO3 (it was both too complex and too dumbed down at the same time).
Diablo 2 (is this old enough to qualify I put it down and pick it up almost annually)
Fallout 2 Nothing better than trying a role that I've never played yet.
Masters of Orion series I even fired up MOO on DOS Box the other day just as sweet as it always was.
Frontier: First Encounters Holy crap do I wish I could get x2 working or that they would release Elite 4. That series has always led with graphics, unstructuredness, and fun.
X-Com--Fighting my way to mind control and then making the etherials do my bidding. I'll never forget how scared I was doing the first nighttime terror mission with the etherials I think I broke and ran with half my crew after the town was completely destroyed.
Super Mario Brothers My sister and I still fire this up when we go home for the holidays.
At current interest rates 30 days float is worth beans. Even if you assume that they have 100 million in recipts payable they are only making $3 million/year on that money. Rebates are used because they don't get filed all that frequently but lots of sales happen because people plan to file the rebate.
It's actually somewhat rational, like the old why does third class suck so badly on the train arguement (the train isn't trying to hose third class, they are scaring second class into paying for second class). Store brands used to be terrible quality which kept most folk (except the most price sensitive) buying brand names which had some level of quality. Places like Aldi and much improved store brands are changing this, but that change will require a long time before the culture shifts. Incidentally Wal-Mart was one of the major factors in this change, as Wal-Mart is seen as implying a certain level of quality by stocking an item (which gives more information to consumers than a brand). So consumers become less sensitive to brand names.
[me] HA HA [/me]
Now you see why they sued HardOCP when they fully exposed the actual business model and modus operandi of the company. Dumb investors get exactly what they deserve.
First, you probably already know that IT is generally a very male dominated field (the number of porn hits in a google search for chocolate should prove that). Men stereotypically are excited by challenges and achievement that perhaps no one thought they could do. If I were managing a competitive staff of guys that would be a pretty good way of challenging my employees. It's possible your supervisor really has not imagined your situation very well.
Second, rare is the company or organization that is unwilling to train when it makes sense. There are two keys to this. First show them how the training will save them resources (your time, their money, other impacts). Second, demonstrate that they will reap the benefits of the training, a manager's biggest fear in training an employee is that the employee will leave soon after the training makes them a more valuable job prospect.
Good luck and I hope the situation rights itself soon.
I got Casablanca, Citizen Kane (the special collector's edition), and Metropolis all for less than USD10 most were between USD5 and USD 10. Those three generally make everyone's top 10 or top 5 movies ever list. I think the quip that, "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American consumer" applies here as well.
No you just have to make it up on volume. Sell 400 iPods at a $400 markup and you have made a pretty penny over your original costs. Your presumed point stands, why pay 3/4 when all it would take is ripping everything you own and a few hours or days on a broadband connection to fill the sucker up.
For the general student sure more practical finance would be good, but I'd argue that business (especially finance) is more of a specialized topic that requires the math. Almost all business decisions (and most of accounting) are better made once the concept that the income statement (and cash flow statements) are related to the derivative of the balance sheet is understood, but very few business people understand that concept (even those who should know better). Accounting is taught in a way quite similar to Physics without calculus, it is just taught that this does that because it does.
I'll admit that most of my work has been on the higher math side of finance (equity, debt and derivative analysis) where I would say just knowing business calc will never cut it. Wall Street likes to pay math PhDs or engineers with MBAs mountains of cash to do this, so I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Incidentially, all of your examples deal with interest rates which are exponential growth, which I have only rarely met folks who really grasp exponential growth without an understanding of calculus. I do not think it impossible, just that a logical mind that really gets exponential growth probably enjoyed math enough to take calculus anyway.
I work in finance, and while calculus has never been a requirement of the job, understanding the concepts of first and second order derivatives has proved invaluable (and provided substantial advantages over those who did not) several times and I'm only a few years into a career.
I've also tutored high school kids who could not at 7+9 without a calculator.
Currency in a safe deposit box wouldn't be circulated, but your checking/savings account at a bank do not fuction in that way. Rather the bank loans out the money nearly instantly (they keep a small percentage of their accounts on hand for daily withdrawls). A pretty good explination of this exists in, "It's a Wonderful Life" during the depression bank run scene. The money is all reused typically quite quickly (a matter of seconds rather than hours or days).
If you could replicate anything, why would it be any harder to replicate a pure carbon grid rather than ZrSiO grid? He and the Ferangi are more likely to be impressed with the shinier version.
I guess I should have clarified, I'd be surprised if after everything is included (all that you paid them, they got from "free software" providers to install realplayer etc on your system and any remarketing dollars), they probably make less than $50 on a $1300 order. I try not to worry about how the price is broken down, rather focusing on the dollars of the whole operation. The best info I saw had consumer margins in the 2-3% range for Dell ($20 profit per $1000 systems sold) ~10% for business desktops and north of 20% for storage and servers. Services are broken out separatly on everything and were in the 15% range.
IIRC the estimates were that Intel spent the most on processor design, but that Sun was next. These were shall we say educated guesses by folks who were in a slightly better position than just relying on public documents. I'm sure it helps Intel's efforts to have an AMD sticking close to them but only passing them in performance and customer view occasionally.
IIRC, the Pentium M isn't too far removed from the Pentium III line, which makes it sort of an extention of the Pentium Pro line from almost 10 years ago now. Odd how good ideas just keep getting reused and the newer ideas just fizzle after a few years.
Sorry about the double reply, but the global ETFs are getting focused enough to allow investments in most countries and several industries. Trading costs are much lower for these than trying to trade the equities on the foreign market.
My background is with pension funds where our foreign investments were managed by regional fund managers. It depends on your broker, the big houses (Goldman, Merrill, Morgan etc) can do it but it will generally cost you. If you aren't a high 6 figure account the commissions will probably make it too costly. Most of the online brokers I've dealt with don't do much more than Canada. There are a surprising number of foreign companies that trade either on the pink sheets or listed on one of the major exchanges. www.adr.com has great info about both the foreign market and domestic certificates.
I have second hand experience with a Norwegian company they would put in their order one day, and if it filled they would learn the next day. No language barrier since they placed the order with the local office of the firm that did the trade. The broker must have access to a trader on the local exchange to make the trade work. Happily most of the medium and bigger European companies list on several bourses so it's likely that if they have any European operations, you can get your trade done.
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Do you recall the paper that came up with several types of people who's performance at their career dropped dramatically upon marriage? Scientists and Criminals were both people who experienced the drop in outstanding performance.
We played it on the LAN, but my friends would agonize over certain decisions or someone would get involved in a 30 on 30 Doom Star battle and then the game was basically shot as the rest of us would start drinking at that point. I tried a few games of MOO3 online with a friend, but that one seems to take days to get far enough to have explored a decent portion of the galaxy. If we want non FPS multiplayer games it usually falls to Diablo or HoMM on a small map.
It's too bad Atari? doesn't clean up the graphics of the first game for quick multiplayer games it was very simple (your only industry was builing factories or a single planitary advancement and you set all your spending using about 3 screens of bars (ship, industry, environment, research and perhaps one other one). It is a lot like Moo 3 without the additional detail levels that you can drill into. No star lanes either you just traveled based on distance. A small galaxy could be fighting in an hour or so.
Yeah but if you buy half spoiled or underripe oranges for half the price of good ones the orange juice will not be the same as the firm that chooses the better ones. Until about 10 years ago store brands tended to err on the side of cheap, now stores realize that they make about twice the margin on store branded items so they the major retailers have done a better job promoting quality.
In my opinion Aldi kicks the quality up a notch or two on most national brands (their fruit pies, frozen pizzas, chocolate, and produce are generally better than I can get from anyone else in the area (NoVA). They don't advertise and so have more flexibility than a retailer who is spending 10% of sales on marketing). Costco does similar things with their store brands, I think of Aldi as Costco for singles.
Until they develop a controller for my PC that is even close to the one on the Arcade I'll keep feeding a quarter into the machine each time I pass one.
Was Maelstron the old game where you defended a planet called harmony? I bought that years ago and poured over the manual but the 6th disk was corrupt and the company had long since gone under by the time I fished it out of the bargain bin. I finally downloaded it of a warez site and got it sorta running on win2k but it locked up too much to play.
It's only flaws were insanly long multiplayer turns at the end of the game and the let down of MOO3 (it was both too complex and too dumbed down at the same time).
I haven't played the vector graphics star wars since I last went to Disney land about 10 years ago. That game was so sweet!
Diablo 2 (is this old enough to qualify I put it down and pick it up almost annually)
Fallout 2 Nothing better than trying a role that I've never played yet.
Masters of Orion series I even fired up MOO on DOS Box the other day just as sweet as it always was.
Frontier: First Encounters Holy crap do I wish I could get x2 working or that they would release Elite 4. That series has always led with graphics, unstructuredness, and fun.
X-Com--Fighting my way to mind control and then making the etherials do my bidding. I'll never forget how scared I was doing the first nighttime terror mission with the etherials I think I broke and ran with half my crew after the town was completely destroyed.
Super Mario Brothers My sister and I still fire this up when we go home for the holidays.
At current interest rates 30 days float is worth beans. Even if you assume that they have 100 million in recipts payable they are only making $3 million/year on that money. Rebates are used because they don't get filed all that frequently but lots of sales happen because people plan to file the rebate.
It's actually somewhat rational, like the old why does third class suck so badly on the train arguement (the train isn't trying to hose third class, they are scaring second class into paying for second class). Store brands used to be terrible quality which kept most folk (except the most price sensitive) buying brand names which had some level of quality. Places like Aldi and much improved store brands are changing this, but that change will require a long time before the culture shifts. Incidentally Wal-Mart was one of the major factors in this change, as Wal-Mart is seen as implying a certain level of quality by stocking an item (which gives more information to consumers than a brand). So consumers become less sensitive to brand names.
That could be the most cynical thing I've ever read, and I thought I was cynical.
It was my understanding that they sold/shared the data, they just shared it with some identity theives in this case.
[me] HA HA [/me]
Now you see why they sued HardOCP when they fully exposed the actual business model and modus operandi of the company. Dumb investors get exactly what they deserve.
First, you probably already know that IT is generally a very male dominated field (the number of porn hits in a google search for chocolate should prove that). Men stereotypically are excited by challenges and achievement that perhaps no one thought they could do. If I were managing a competitive staff of guys that would be a pretty good way of challenging my employees. It's possible your supervisor really has not imagined your situation very well. Second, rare is the company or organization that is unwilling to train when it makes sense. There are two keys to this. First show them how the training will save them resources (your time, their money, other impacts). Second, demonstrate that they will reap the benefits of the training, a manager's biggest fear in training an employee is that the employee will leave soon after the training makes them a more valuable job prospect. Good luck and I hope the situation rights itself soon.
I got Casablanca, Citizen Kane (the special collector's edition), and Metropolis all for less than USD10 most were between USD5 and USD 10. Those three generally make everyone's top 10 or top 5 movies ever list. I think the quip that, "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American consumer" applies here as well.
No you just have to make it up on volume. Sell 400 iPods at a $400 markup and you have made a pretty penny over your original costs. Your presumed point stands, why pay 3/4 when all it would take is ripping everything you own and a few hours or days on a broadband connection to fill the sucker up.
For the general student sure more practical finance would be good, but I'd argue that business (especially finance) is more of a specialized topic that requires the math. Almost all business decisions (and most of accounting) are better made once the concept that the income statement (and cash flow statements) are related to the derivative of the balance sheet is understood, but very few business people understand that concept (even those who should know better). Accounting is taught in a way quite similar to Physics without calculus, it is just taught that this does that because it does.
I'll admit that most of my work has been on the higher math side of finance (equity, debt and derivative analysis) where I would say just knowing business calc will never cut it. Wall Street likes to pay math PhDs or engineers with MBAs mountains of cash to do this, so I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Incidentially, all of your examples deal with interest rates which are exponential growth, which I have only rarely met folks who really grasp exponential growth without an understanding of calculus. I do not think it impossible, just that a logical mind that really gets exponential growth probably enjoyed math enough to take calculus anyway.
I work in finance, and while calculus has never been a requirement of the job, understanding the concepts of first and second order derivatives has proved invaluable (and provided substantial advantages over those who did not) several times and I'm only a few years into a career.
I've also tutored high school kids who could not at 7+9 without a calculator.
Currency in a safe deposit box wouldn't be circulated, but your checking/savings account at a bank do not fuction in that way. Rather the bank loans out the money nearly instantly (they keep a small percentage of their accounts on hand for daily withdrawls). A pretty good explination of this exists in, "It's a Wonderful Life" during the depression bank run scene. The money is all reused typically quite quickly (a matter of seconds rather than hours or days).
If you could replicate anything, why would it be any harder to replicate a pure carbon grid rather than ZrSiO grid? He and the Ferangi are more likely to be impressed with the shinier version.
I guess I should have clarified, I'd be surprised if after everything is included (all that you paid them, they got from "free software" providers to install realplayer etc on your system and any remarketing dollars), they probably make less than $50 on a $1300 order. I try not to worry about how the price is broken down, rather focusing on the dollars of the whole operation. The best info I saw had consumer margins in the 2-3% range for Dell ($20 profit per $1000 systems sold) ~10% for business desktops and north of 20% for storage and servers. Services are broken out separatly on everything and were in the 15% range.
IIRC the estimates were that Intel spent the most on processor design, but that Sun was next. These were shall we say educated guesses by folks who were in a slightly better position than just relying on public documents. I'm sure it helps Intel's efforts to have an AMD sticking close to them but only passing them in performance and customer view occasionally.
IIRC, the Pentium M isn't too far removed from the Pentium III line, which makes it sort of an extention of the Pentium Pro line from almost 10 years ago now. Odd how good ideas just keep getting reused and the newer ideas just fizzle after a few years.
Sorry about the double reply, but the global ETFs are getting focused enough to allow investments in most countries and several industries. Trading costs are much lower for these than trying to trade the equities on the foreign market.
My background is with pension funds where our foreign investments were managed by regional fund managers. It depends on your broker, the big houses (Goldman, Merrill, Morgan etc) can do it but it will generally cost you. If you aren't a high 6 figure account the commissions will probably make it too costly. Most of the online brokers I've dealt with don't do much more than Canada. There are a surprising number of foreign companies that trade either on the pink sheets or listed on one of the major exchanges. www.adr.com has great info about both the foreign market and domestic certificates.
I have second hand experience with a Norwegian company they would put in their order one day, and if it filled they would learn the next day. No language barrier since they placed the order with the local office of the firm that did the trade. The broker must have access to a trader on the local exchange to make the trade work. Happily most of the medium and bigger European companies list on several bourses so it's likely that if they have any European operations, you can get your trade done.