From what I've understood, the whole General Relativity is based on the idea that being in freefall (orbit) means that you're not experiencing acceleration.
Being in orbit requires acceleration. Being in freefall means that nothing is stopping you from falling towards the nearest large object. If you also move perpendicular to that object at the right speed, it's orbit - your relative distance doesn't change.
The real question is this: once you have some massive thing like this that just grew there, how will you justify refactoring the thing for a year or two, given that it'll produce no revenue and introduce several hundred regressions, not to mention probably break other peoples' stuff? I wouldn't build it like that, but once it's there, good luck getting rid of it.
If anything can make you hate authority, it's gotta be serving in the military and dealing with a douchebag CO. Of course, taking orders from a douchebag is a valuable life skill, so there you go.
"One or more individuals" - this implies an identifiable, more or less static set of people. My blog is a blog. Microsoft.com's newswire isn't really a blog, but the dentist's office down the street might be.
You've lost your damn mind. MS windows is about 10G of source code with 1000 devs pounding on it. They had to customize their version control so it's scale to that size, since it's the biggest project ever. Now, the reason windows is such a tangled mess it that they have 15 years of legacy and a bunch of pan-platform projects, and breaking the thing into pieces will only fix it a little bit - they've already split their development up a bit, and it's still painful, because you can break things in someone else's code and only find out after a month. There's no way to test all your code prior to checkin, and there's too much communication between modules to really split things the way you want.
No, it assumes that there is a such thing as a person who's really good at X, where X is in the core mission of your company and is somewhat broad. Hiring class A people for a software startup implies that those people are very good at the sector that's being targetted, both technically and enough businesswise to know what's a good idea.
When the 1.66GHz processor in the Mini doesn't cut it anymore we have no options. You have to buy a whole new Mac. You can't just spend $200 on a new MB/CPU and possibly some memory.
The only problem I've had with CPU speed is when playing highly compressed video; everything else (PS, development, games) has been graphics and memory, sometimes disk speed.
And like I said, since Apple tried to rip us off on memory I don't trust them anymore.
Apple has always done that. Dell does it, but not as much.
Also, when I first bought the computer, the BIOS it had didn't have the ability to emulate IDE or whatever on the SATA drives so XP couldn't even see them to do the install. An update to the latest BIOS fixed that.
You can slipstream SATA drivers onto the XP install disk and have it work - this is what I did to make my u305 talk to XP.
At some point, you have to compromise (or just be fairly particular about who you hire). Regardless, class A people can distinguish A from B, but class B people can't. It isn't as cut and dried as all that, of course - your success is partially determined by finding people you can work with - but this is a fairly short rule of thumb. It's necessarily incomplete.
Photography isn't special - if I write some software and you want to use it, I can make you pay (or not use it). If you have a photo that I took and no contract surrounding it, I own the copyright, so you can't really use it commercially. Why should companies be able to just take other people's stuff without compensation?
Periodic group meetings are very helpful (groups under 10 people), as you can find out who on your team is doing what and articulate roadblocks, which can sometimes be solved or at least moved forward during the meetings. An hour a week should be sufficient, or you can do 15 minute daily standups (hard time limit on that one).
i.e. no firewall says "gee normally this guy
pulls 10 customer records, but today he pulled 1,000! What's up?
Yeah, that's a tripwire activity - if you log record access, you can identify common usage patterns and alert when the numbers get out of whack - if 10 is normal, set alerts at 20 and 40. It's still a human process after that; computers are good at filtering, though.
The girl was given enough privacy to get far enough out on a limb that she believed she was too estranged from anyone to receive help, and then, with a lonely helplessness filling her heart, she killed herself.
You mean the girl who didn't even have the password to her myspace account? That one?
Our family business has just 12 employees, but is valued by the IRS at many times the 1.5 million exemption. But strangely, none of us are buying Bentleys and houses in the Hamptons. A million bucks isn't a whole lot these days.
So challenge the valuation; if it's generating $100k/yr and valued at $6M, that's a 3% return, which is insane. A million and a half can support me for my lifetime and be bigger at the end of it.
Family farmers have it the worst, as the land is worth so much compared to the actual income they receive from it on a yearly basis. What are you, a communist? Americans aren't allowed to build a business and pass it on to their kids anymore?
Name one farmer affected by the estate tax. Americans can pass a business on to their kids, but guess what? We don't want people to be able to just coast through life on the coattails of long dead relatives.
Stock gains, that is, and increase in the value of the stock, are the result of the company making money.
No, they're the result of changed expectations of the company's future value. They aren't really tied to the actual value of the company.
That money was already taxed once at the corporate rate as corporate income. A portion of it is taxed again at the individual rate when disbursed to shareholders as dividends. Money retained or reinvested by the corporation increases the value of the stock. Taxes have already been paid on that increase in value.
Last I checked, money invested in a company was deductible.
Capital gains tax are simply a socialist wealth-redistribution scheme.
Okay then, tax capital gains as regular income and see how that affects my tendency to invest. Really, though, you think that you should be able to buy a stock at $10, sell at $100, and pay nothing on the gain? Who's going to pay for all the crap we need, the middle class?
In any case, precious metals and other physical goods are also subject ot capital gains tax as well. This despite the fact that the money seller used to purchase those goods was already subject to income tax, and the money the buyer uses is also subject to income tax.
Only the gain, and capital gains are a lower rate than income, generally. You just don't want to pay any taxes, except on wages, which is insane.
We have a family business that can't be passed on directly to the children and grandchildren without an enormous tax burden, or hamstringing ourselves with a lot of irrevocable trusts.
Hey, that's how the rich do it. Also, the first 1.5M is exempt. Would you prefer we have landed gentry?
Capital gains taxes are clearly a double-tax in addition to income taxes... I don't consider myself rich, merely middle class, but I do own stock. So I am already paying corporate income tax out of my dividends.
No, you pay income tax on your dividends and capital gains on stock gains.
Unforutnately, moving an established family business away from Chicago is not an option.
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From what I've understood, the whole General Relativity is based on the idea that being in freefall (orbit) means that you're not experiencing acceleration.
Being in orbit requires acceleration. Being in freefall means that nothing is stopping you from falling towards the nearest large object. If you also move perpendicular to that object at the right speed, it's orbit - your relative distance doesn't change.
On that front, he's willing to let untold thousands die by precipitously pulling out of a country that Al Queda itself says is central to their plans.
Thousands will die regardless - you can thank Bush for that. What say we actually go after bin ladin instead of shooting at Iraqis?
I've never given out my SSN until my first day on the job.
No they don't. If your estate is smaller than your debts, then that's just too bad.
The real question is this: once you have some massive thing like this that just grew there, how will you justify refactoring the thing for a year or two, given that it'll produce no revenue and introduce several hundred regressions, not to mention probably break other peoples' stuff? I wouldn't build it like that, but once it's there, good luck getting rid of it.
If anything can make you hate authority, it's gotta be serving in the military and dealing with a douchebag CO. Of course, taking orders from a douchebag is a valuable life skill, so there you go.
I think our GIs have better things to spend their time on than trying to distill truth from the "facts" vomited by malcontents and partisan hacks.
Yeah, but you don't see them blocking fox news, do you?
"One or more individuals" - this implies an identifiable, more or less static set of people. My blog is a blog. Microsoft.com's newswire isn't really a blog, but the dentist's office down the street might be.
But decisions on a child's health are the domain of his or her parents and doctors, not government.
To an extent. If it's life or death, like a blood transfusion to save a kid, or removing a giant tumor, then screw the parents and save the kid.
You've lost your damn mind. MS windows is about 10G of source code with 1000 devs pounding on it. They had to customize their version control so it's scale to that size, since it's the biggest project ever. Now, the reason windows is such a tangled mess it that they have 15 years of legacy and a bunch of pan-platform projects, and breaking the thing into pieces will only fix it a little bit - they've already split their development up a bit, and it's still painful, because you can break things in someone else's code and only find out after a month. There's no way to test all your code prior to checkin, and there's too much communication between modules to really split things the way you want.
No, it assumes that there is a such thing as a person who's really good at X, where X is in the core mission of your company and is somewhat broad. Hiring class A people for a software startup implies that those people are very good at the sector that's being targetted, both technically and enough businesswise to know what's a good idea.
When the 1.66GHz processor in the Mini doesn't cut it anymore we have no options. You have to buy a whole new Mac. You can't just spend $200 on a new MB/CPU and possibly some memory.
The only problem I've had with CPU speed is when playing highly compressed video; everything else (PS, development, games) has been graphics and memory, sometimes disk speed.
And like I said, since Apple tried to rip us off on memory I don't trust them anymore.
Apple has always done that. Dell does it, but not as much.
Also, when I first bought the computer, the BIOS it had didn't have the ability to emulate IDE or whatever on the SATA drives so XP couldn't even see them to do the install. An update to the latest BIOS fixed that.
You can slipstream SATA drivers onto the XP install disk and have it work - this is what I did to make my u305 talk to XP.
The point, which you've missed, is that the laptop should at least function properly as sold without tweaking by a nontechnical user.
At some point, you have to compromise (or just be fairly particular about who you hire). Regardless, class A people can distinguish A from B, but class B people can't. It isn't as cut and dried as all that, of course - your success is partially determined by finding people you can work with - but this is a fairly short rule of thumb. It's necessarily incomplete.
How is he able to prevent the wolf from eating the chicken when he's present?"
Farmer john has a shotgun and a big boot. Also, the wolf's already been alpha'd by him.
You could just say that you have been given offers internally. That you haven't speaks more than what you say.
Photography isn't special - if I write some software and you want to use it, I can make you pay (or not use it). If you have a photo that I took and no contract surrounding it, I own the copyright, so you can't really use it commercially. Why should companies be able to just take other people's stuff without compensation?
Periodic group meetings are very helpful (groups under 10 people), as you can find out who on your team is doing what and articulate roadblocks, which can sometimes be solved or at least moved forward during the meetings. An hour a week should be sufficient, or you can do 15 minute daily standups (hard time limit on that one).
i.e. no firewall says "gee normally this guy pulls 10 customer records, but today he pulled 1,000! What's up?
Yeah, that's a tripwire activity - if you log record access, you can identify common usage patterns and alert when the numbers get out of whack - if 10 is normal, set alerts at 20 and 40. It's still a human process after that; computers are good at filtering, though.
2.) The parents could have done more to oversee her Internet activities, or at least talk to her about her feelings about this "boy."
Did you even read the story? There's nothing more they could have done aside from perhaps screening her messages. You know, like in prison.
The girl was given enough privacy to get far enough out on a limb that she believed she was too estranged from anyone to receive help, and then, with a lonely helplessness filling her heart, she killed herself.
You mean the girl who didn't even have the password to her myspace account? That one?
Our family business has just 12 employees, but is valued by the IRS at many times the 1.5 million exemption. But strangely, none of us are buying Bentleys and houses in the Hamptons. A million bucks isn't a whole lot these days.
So challenge the valuation; if it's generating $100k/yr and valued at $6M, that's a 3% return, which is insane. A million and a half can support me for my lifetime and be bigger at the end of it.
Family farmers have it the worst, as the land is worth so much compared to the actual income they receive from it on a yearly basis. What are you, a communist? Americans aren't allowed to build a business and pass it on to their kids anymore?
Name one farmer affected by the estate tax. Americans can pass a business on to their kids, but guess what? We don't want people to be able to just coast through life on the coattails of long dead relatives.
Stock gains, that is, and increase in the value of the stock, are the result of the company making money.
No, they're the result of changed expectations of the company's future value. They aren't really tied to the actual value of the company.
That money was already taxed once at the corporate rate as corporate income. A portion of it is taxed again at the individual rate when disbursed to shareholders as dividends. Money retained or reinvested by the corporation increases the value of the stock. Taxes have already been paid on that increase in value.
Last I checked, money invested in a company was deductible.
Capital gains tax are simply a socialist wealth-redistribution scheme.
Okay then, tax capital gains as regular income and see how that affects my tendency to invest. Really, though, you think that you should be able to buy a stock at $10, sell at $100, and pay nothing on the gain? Who's going to pay for all the crap we need, the middle class?
In any case, precious metals and other physical goods are also subject ot capital gains tax as well. This despite the fact that the money seller used to purchase those goods was already subject to income tax, and the money the buyer uses is also subject to income tax.
Only the gain, and capital gains are a lower rate than income, generally. You just don't want to pay any taxes, except on wages, which is insane.
We have a family business that can't be passed on directly to the children and grandchildren without an enormous tax burden, or hamstringing ourselves with a lot of irrevocable trusts.
Hey, that's how the rich do it. Also, the first 1.5M is exempt. Would you prefer we have landed gentry?
Capital gains taxes are clearly a double-tax in addition to income taxes... I don't consider myself rich, merely middle class, but I do own stock. So I am already paying corporate income tax out of my dividends.
No, you pay income tax on your dividends and capital gains on stock gains.
Unforutnately, moving an established family business away from Chicago is not an option.
Estate tax isn't a Chicago thing.
This is not poker. There are (very valid) analogies you can draw, but this is not a game for MS or Yahoo.
It's still a game. The stakes are survival, but that just means it's a serious game.