An entire alphabet soup of Feds have been paying much more attention recently to our celebrity CEO and his company. There is a certain, very expensive option, which his company was hyping to customers, for a few extra thousand dollars. The problem was that this option didn't really exist, and never really would. Very recently, the Feds quietly reached out to the company, and told them to end this charade or else. The company just abruptly stopped offering this non-existent option, and may owe consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.
I don't know if this is the reason, or some sort of short-seller voodoo.
Here's an easy way to repatriate overseas money:
Congress passes a law that states:
- for every dollar declared in dividends a company can repatriate one dollar TAX FREE
- this moves money from overseas banks into the economy and the govt. gets money from taxes on dividend income
not bad, huh?
As a famous person once said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I'll be worried when a programmer writes a program that can write a program that can modify itself, then re-compile and test itself to see if the modifications were done properly, then posts itself to github.
after I got an HP-35 and quit using my slide rule, I found that I had less of a feel for numbers.
Hard to put into words, it kind of felt like I couldn't do math as well, but I could process numbers faster, as long as I had my calculator.
Take the calculator away, and it seemed to take forever to do things.
I was complaining to my boss once about a jerk in our department; he pointed out that most organizations can deal with any amount of ego as long as there are results equal to or greater than the cost of dealing with the ego.
Once the results go away, the ego has to leave too.
Shortly thereafter the individual left and eventually wound up working at Intel.
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perhaps this is an armadillo feinting...
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I don't know if this is the reason, or some sort of short-seller voodoo.
Any nontrivial program requires specifications, testing, debugging, and lots of time before it runs to spec.
I'll start worrying when a programmer can write a program that can write a program that can write a program.
Here's an easy way to repatriate overseas money: Congress passes a law that states: - for every dollar declared in dividends a company can repatriate one dollar TAX FREE - this moves money from overseas banks into the economy and the govt. gets money from taxes on dividend income not bad, huh?
is for retards.
Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
As a famous person once said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I'll be worried when a programmer writes a program that can write a program that can modify itself, then re-compile and test itself to see if the modifications were done properly, then posts itself to github.
Any bets on SpaceX building their own space station so that they will have something to fly their spacecraft to?
Every closeup of Ender's face resulted in me thinking "Hey, what's Sheldon Cooper doing in this movie?!?"
People don't know what they want till they see it. Prototype early, prototype often.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
Because if you do, purple monkey dishwasher!
See http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/15/uk-boeing-dreamliner-ntsb-idUSLNE90E00Y20130115
This looks bad.
I hope Boeing can [manage|subcontract] themselves out of this before they go broke...
Naah, more like:
The Hobbit: The Ca$hening
see http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/
a journey, not a destination.
Thus saith Steve Jobs.
Or maybe it's that perfection is a journey, not a destination.
Meh. Probably both...
Engineering a house:
1. Gather requirements
2. Write a spec
3. Design house to spec
4. Build house to design
Hacking a house:
1. Nail boards together
2. Step back
3. Is it a house yet?
4. No, go to 1
Both methods work, but I'd prefer the former to the latter...
Got started early on my sharing!
after I got an HP-35 and quit using my slide rule, I found that I had less of a feel for numbers. Hard to put into words, it kind of felt like I couldn't do math as well, but I could process numbers faster, as long as I had my calculator. Take the calculator away, and it seemed to take forever to do things.
My wife said she wanted to know why there was a little fox on her dashboard.
Puzzled, I asked her to come get me the next time she saw this mysterious fox on her dashboard.
She was pulling out of the garage, stopped, and got me.
"There! There's the fox!" she said, pointing to her dashboard.
I looked and said "That's not a FOX, it's a WRENCH! - take your car in to get it SERVICED!"
After that, I told her to review the owners manual for any other 'animals' on the dashboard...
Tinfoil Hat thing didn't play out?
get a 30% cut everytime someone subscribes to the new Constitution?
Is a 3-dimensional projection of a 2-dimensional movie with 1-dimensional acting.
mmmm, can't wait....
Profanity.
I was complaining to my boss once about a jerk in our department; he pointed out that most organizations can deal with any amount of ego as long as there are results equal to or greater than the cost of dealing with the ego.
Once the results go away, the ego has to leave too.
Shortly thereafter the individual left and eventually wound up working at Intel.