shareholder value (v) - 1. To reduce the value of a product or service to increase profit. The box was shareholder valued to increase profit 0.2% by reducing its size by 10%.
explain to a European, what this compulsive need to refer to the constitution in seemingly all matters relating to the law is all about?
Unlike the European constitution, the US version is not written in legaleze. It's concise and accessible enough that people can understand it. So, they make use of it. They take advantage of it (in the good sense) because they can. They take advantage of it (in the bad sense) because it isn't precise.
Actually, the current level of scene cutting is calculated to trigger your instinctual urge to investigate motion. Too much motion and you don't understand what you are seeing and lose interest. Too little motion and the TV doesn't draw your attention away from something else.
Shareholder value at work. Shareholders did not have the benefit of such advanced manipulation science in the 70's.
These guys have been reporting on SL numbers for months. They get their numbers from these guys, who run the game and provide raw economic numbers in handy spreadsheet format, and in periodic pretty reports.
How to create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Simple, just tell everybody that the 2L banking system is about to self destruct horribly.
There is no banking system in SL. The economy revolves around people who use a credit card to buy virtual currency, and people who take receipt of virtual currency and withdraw it to real-worl paypal or by check.
These SL "banks" are minor players compared to the big picture.
These "banks" and other "economic institutions" are given more legitimacy than they deserve, and their impact is grossly over-stated.
Before casinos were banned the daily SL economy was about US $2 Million per day. That's the total amount of all transactions between residents that Linded Labs (who run Second Life) knows about. It's currently running about US $1.4 Million. That's a big hit, but the difference was people putting money into slot machines. The banning has hurt some people running unregulated gambling scripts, and benefitted the idiots that were feeding them. A wash, AFAIC.
The Ginko thing also only affects a scammer and his victims, and is only US $0.75 Million. Less than a day's economic activity. Those people payed into a ponzi scheme, and like the gamblers, they had no reason to expect a return. Some might say that whatever the "banker" invested in will suffer, but until proven otherwise, his "investments" are probably real-world. That money is already gone from the economy, and it's not an economy-crashing amount even if some of it actually is invested in SL.
The real danger is to the land barons, who continue to buy up all the virtual land The Labs has to offer; much of it up for sale as casinos also sell off their land. Them, and Linden Lab itself, who stand to lose tier payments on land people can't afford to hold. But if a hypothetical sell-off is short-lived and is absorbed by new members and other residents suddenly able to buy cheap land, LL stands to gain as they get to re-sell land that is abandoned; land they already sold once and will get to sell again. The most likely scenario is that land re-sale prices (prices residents pay each other, not The Labs) will go down some, and The Labs will be unaffected. It is probable, in fact, that they want land prices to go down so people will buy more of it. They make much more money on monthly land payments than they do selling land (i.e. server space) to land barons.
GTK is cross-platform only in that happens to run on several platforms. It does not resemble the native interface of any of them, and is therefore not suitable for commercial apps with wide distribution.
WxWidgets is potentially a better cross-platform solution, and has a commercial-friendly license. It could use some more development.
I'm using a Comcast-supplied modem that the tech set up for my Mac several years ago. He knew exactly where to look for Internet options on a Mac, and he used Mozilla to test things out. Last time I called support I got a chatty support person who said because I was on a Mac there was a whole host of things she didn't have to bother checking. Went right to diagnosing the modem and line.
I think the problem with soda is that it is consumed in larger quantities than it used to be. From the very first article I found googling...
Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf-life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it. It can help prevent freezer burn, so you'll find it on the labels of many frozen foods. It helps breads brown and keeps them soft, which is why hot dog buns and even English muffins hold unexpected amounts....
the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2002 published research that showed that teenagers' milk consumption between 1965 and 1996 decreased by 36 percent, while soda consumption increased by more than 200 percent. Bray argues that without calcium, which nutritionists agree can help the body regulate weight, kids got fatter. He says that he could find no other single combination of environmental or food changes that were as significant to the rise in obesity.
The original article didn't make a convincing case for why soda is worse with HFCS in it. The real problem seems to be that HFCS is used more than sugar used to be, and that we eat more sugared foods than we used to.
Orange juice, concentrated or not, fresh-squeezed or not, is sucrose, and sucrose is half fructose. Most real supermarket orange juices do not have any kind of sugar added. "Sunny Delight" and similar artificial orange beverages are not real orange juice, and they do have HFCS in them, but real orange juice does not.
The problem with orange juice is you've extracted just the bad part (the sugar) and left behind the fiber. The best that can be said of it is it has vitamin C and potassium. It is otherwise not nutritionally useful.
The benefits of fruit generally outway the problem of the sugar, but fruit juices turn out not to be as healthy as we were led to believe. Remember being told by an orange juice company that a glass of orange juice is a serving of fruit?
Clearly people aren't taking the time to read the article (I'm shocked), so here's a summary of the fructose info...
Our consumption of fructose has gone from less than half a pound per year in 1970 to 56 pounds per year in 2003.
high fructose corn syrup came on the market after it was invented in Japan in 1966, and started finding its way into American foods in 1975. In 1980 the soft drink companies started introducing it into soft drinks and you can actually trace the prevalence of childhood obesity, and the rise, to 1980 when this change was made.
it's not the calories that are different it's the fact that the only organ in your body that can take up fructose is your liver. Glucose, the standard sugar, can be taken up by every organ in the body, only 20% of glucose load ends up at your liver. So let's take 120 calories of glucose, that's two slices of white bread as an example, only 24 of those 120 calories will be metabolised by the liver, the rest of it will be metabolised by your muscles, by your brain, by your kidneys, by your heart etc.. Now let's take 120 calories of orange juice. Same 120 calories but now 60 of those calories are going to be fructose because fructose is half of sucrose and sucrose is what's in orange juice. So it's going to be all the fructose, that's 60 calories, plus 20% of the glucose, so that's another 12 out of 60 -- so in other words 72 out of the 120 calories will hit the liver, three times the substrate as when it was just glucose alone.
fructose [does] three things that are particularly bad in the liver. The first is this uric acid pathway that I just mentioned, the second is that fructose initiates what's known as de novo lipogenesis...Which is fat production...Excess fat production and so VLDL [the bad form of cholesterol], very low density lipoproteins end up being manufactured when you consume this large bolus of fructose in a way that glucose does not, and so that leads to dyslipidaemia.
And then the last thing that fructose does in the liver is it initiates an enzyme called Junk one,...and when you initiate Junk one what happens is that your insulin receptor in your liver stops working...that means your insulin levels all over your body have to rise.
put all of this together and basically you've got a feed forward system of increased insulin, increased liver fat, liver deposition of fat, increased inflammation -- you end up with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. You end up with your inability to see your leptin [**leptin tells your brain you are full**] and so you consume more fructose and you've now got a viscious cycle out of control.
In fact fructose, because of the way it's metabolised, is actually damaging your liver the same way alcohol is. In fact it's the exact same pathway, in fact fructose is alcohol without the buzz.
I don't think my problem is arm position, but rather repetitive button-pressing stress, particularly with 3D apps, which require a lot of prolonged button holding.
I have a second mouse to the left of my keyboard, and switch off occasionally to reduce usage with the right hand. It'd be nice if I could reverse the buttons on only the left mouse, so I could use either interchangeably, but I can't, so I have to swap the buttons in the control pannel and switch mice.
Alternatively, I can rotate the left mouse 180 degrees so it is facing me, and use my thumb to press its buttons. This is a little more clumsy, but I can then use either mouse interchangeably, and the thumb doesn't get sore so easily.
I wish I could try out one of those floor switch things before buying one.
No. A merchant can limit the denomination they'll accept (e.g. no large bills, no pennies) provided their policy is consistent and non-discriminatory and does not diminish the value of legal currency. Legal tender just means that all cash money instruments issued by the US government are "real money".
Checks are not legal tender, so a merchant can refuse them based on any criteria they like, even if they have a policy of accepting checks.
I've seen posts with this link that still got it wrong.
It is not a matter of past or present debts, or debts already incurred verses about to be incurred.
It means that if cash is accepted, then this bill must be accepted. A merchant can not insist on bills backed by precious metals (they were, decades ago), or bills that are not creased, or "the new style" bills, or "the old style" bills, or bills printed after such-and-such a date, or...
Hacking the hosts file works fine, and there are third-party maintained hosts files you can just grab and use. I just wish there was a right-click solution for updating it like "block all images from this server" in Mozilla. Would also be nice to be able to block javascript on a by-site basis.
Not sure how long I'll give this Safari trial. I use Mozilla's image blocking a lot.
Slashdot Mirror
I bought a shrinkwrapped copy of OS X at CompuUSA a few years ago and found an AOL disc inside. The manager whined but did exchange it for me.
shareholder value (v) - 1. To reduce the value of a product or service to increase profit. The box was shareholder valued to increase profit 0.2% by reducing its size by 10%.
Unlike the European constitution, the US version is not written in legaleze. It's concise and accessible enough that people can understand it. So, they make use of it. They take advantage of it (in the good sense) because they can. They take advantage of it (in the bad sense) because it isn't precise.
Actually, the current level of scene cutting is calculated to trigger your instinctual urge to investigate motion. Too much motion and you don't understand what you are seeing and lose interest. Too little motion and the TV doesn't draw your attention away from something else.
Shareholder value at work. Shareholders did not have the benefit of such advanced manipulation science in the 70's.
These guys have been reporting on SL numbers for months. They get their numbers from these guys, who run the game and provide raw economic numbers in handy spreadsheet format, and in periodic pretty reports.
How to create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Simple, just tell everybody that the 2L banking system is about to self destruct horribly.
There is no banking system in SL. The economy revolves around people who use a credit card to buy virtual currency, and people who take receipt of virtual currency and withdraw it to real-worl paypal or by check.
These SL "banks" are minor players compared to the big picture.
These "banks" and other "economic institutions" are given more legitimacy than they deserve, and their impact is grossly over-stated.
Before casinos were banned the daily SL economy was about US $2 Million per day. That's the total amount of all transactions between residents that Linded Labs (who run Second Life) knows about. It's currently running about US $1.4 Million. That's a big hit, but the difference was people putting money into slot machines. The banning has hurt some people running unregulated gambling scripts, and benefitted the idiots that were feeding them. A wash, AFAIC.
The Ginko thing also only affects a scammer and his victims, and is only US $0.75 Million. Less than a day's economic activity. Those people payed into a ponzi scheme, and like the gamblers, they had no reason to expect a return. Some might say that whatever the "banker" invested in will suffer, but until proven otherwise, his "investments" are probably real-world. That money is already gone from the economy, and it's not an economy-crashing amount even if some of it actually is invested in SL.
The real danger is to the land barons, who continue to buy up all the virtual land The Labs has to offer; much of it up for sale as casinos also sell off their land. Them, and Linden Lab itself, who stand to lose tier payments on land people can't afford to hold. But if a hypothetical sell-off is short-lived and is absorbed by new members and other residents suddenly able to buy cheap land, LL stands to gain as they get to re-sell land that is abandoned; land they already sold once and will get to sell again. The most likely scenario is that land re-sale prices (prices residents pay each other, not The Labs) will go down some, and The Labs will be unaffected. It is probable, in fact, that they want land prices to go down so people will buy more of it. They make much more money on monthly land payments than they do selling land (i.e. server space) to land barons.
GTK is cross-platform only in that happens to run on several platforms. It does not resemble the native interface of any of them, and is therefore not suitable for commercial apps with wide distribution.
WxWidgets is potentially a better cross-platform solution, and has a commercial-friendly license. It could use some more development.
The Slashdot Groupthink is strongly against arrogance
Is that supposed to be a brain-explodey kind of thing, like saying "I'm lying?"
I'm using a Comcast-supplied modem that the tech set up for my Mac several years ago. He knew exactly where to look for Internet options on a Mac, and he used Mozilla to test things out. Last time I called support I got a chatty support person who said because I was on a Mac there was a whole host of things she didn't have to bother checking. Went right to diagnosing the modem and line.
So far, Win + Safari have made NO contribution to the stats
Check again :-)
I think the problem with soda is that it is consumed in larger quantities than it used to be. From the very first article I found googling...
Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf-life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it. It can help prevent freezer burn, so you'll find it on the labels of many frozen foods. It helps breads brown and keeps them soft, which is why hot dog buns and even English muffins hold unexpected amounts. ...
the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2002 published research that showed that teenagers' milk consumption between 1965 and 1996 decreased by 36 percent, while soda consumption increased by more than 200 percent. Bray argues that without calcium, which nutritionists agree can help the body regulate weight, kids got fatter. He says that he could find no other single combination of environmental or food changes that were as significant to the rise in obesity.
The original article didn't make a convincing case for why soda is worse with HFCS in it. The real problem seems to be that HFCS is used more than sugar used to be, and that we eat more sugared foods than we used to.
Orange juice, concentrated or not, fresh-squeezed or not, is sucrose, and sucrose is half fructose. Most real supermarket orange juices do not have any kind of sugar added. "Sunny Delight" and similar artificial orange beverages are not real orange juice, and they do have HFCS in them, but real orange juice does not.
The problem with orange juice is you've extracted just the bad part (the sugar) and left behind the fiber. The best that can be said of it is it has vitamin C and potassium. It is otherwise not nutritionally useful.
The benefits of fruit generally outway the problem of the sugar, but fruit juices turn out not to be as healthy as we were led to believe. Remember being told by an orange juice company that a glass of orange juice is a serving of fruit?
Sugar is expensive in the US (I don't remember why-tarrifs or something) so HFCS is used instead.
Clearly people aren't taking the time to read the article (I'm shocked), so here's a summary of the fructose info...
Our consumption of fructose has gone from less than half a pound per year in 1970 to 56 pounds per year in 2003.
high fructose corn syrup came on the market after it was invented in Japan in 1966, and started finding its way into American foods in 1975. In 1980 the soft drink companies started introducing it into soft drinks and you can actually trace the prevalence of childhood obesity, and the rise, to 1980 when this change was made.
it's not the calories that are different it's the fact that the only organ in your body that can take up fructose is your liver. Glucose, the standard sugar, can be taken up by every organ in the body, only 20% of glucose load ends up at your liver. So let's take 120 calories of glucose, that's two slices of white bread as an example, only 24 of those 120 calories will be metabolised by the liver, the rest of it will be metabolised by your muscles, by your brain, by your kidneys, by your heart etc.. Now let's take 120 calories of orange juice. Same 120 calories but now 60 of those calories are going to be fructose because fructose is half of sucrose and sucrose is what's in orange juice. So it's going to be all the fructose, that's 60 calories, plus 20% of the glucose, so that's another 12 out of 60 -- so in other words 72 out of the 120 calories will hit the liver, three times the substrate as when it was just glucose alone.
fructose [does] three things that are particularly bad in the liver. The first is this uric acid pathway that I just mentioned, the second is that fructose initiates what's known as de novo lipogenesis...Which is fat production...Excess fat production and so VLDL [the bad form of cholesterol], very low density lipoproteins end up being manufactured when you consume this large bolus of fructose in a way that glucose does not, and so that leads to dyslipidaemia.
And then the last thing that fructose does in the liver is it initiates an enzyme called Junk one, ...and when you initiate Junk one what happens is that your insulin receptor in your liver stops working...that means your insulin levels all over your body have to rise.
put all of this together and basically you've got a feed forward system of increased insulin, increased liver fat, liver deposition of fat, increased inflammation -- you end up with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. You end up with your inability to see your leptin [**leptin tells your brain you are full**] and so you consume more fructose and you've now got a viscious cycle out of control.
In fact fructose, because of the way it's metabolised, is actually damaging your liver the same way alcohol is. In fact it's the exact same pathway, in fact fructose is alcohol without the buzz.
Offering fewer models saves money; perhaps enough to price the 20" the same as the old 17".
For the same reason this comment will be modded flame bait. The immature mind gets more satisfaction out of destruction than construction.
Okay, mods, don't let me down.
I don't think my problem is arm position, but rather repetitive button-pressing stress, particularly with 3D apps, which require a lot of prolonged button holding.
I have a second mouse to the left of my keyboard, and switch off occasionally to reduce usage with the right hand. It'd be nice if I could reverse the buttons on only the left mouse, so I could use either interchangeably, but I can't, so I have to swap the buttons in the control pannel and switch mice.
Alternatively, I can rotate the left mouse 180 degrees so it is facing me, and use my thumb to press its buttons. This is a little more clumsy, but I can then use either mouse interchangeably, and the thumb doesn't get sore so easily.
I wish I could try out one of those floor switch things before buying one.
they are going to have a hell of a time with stairs
Says who?
Actually, I see these things (the DARPA card deck-sized robots) being tossed through second floor windows, and launched to higher storeys.
linky linky
And "legal tender" may mean something else in other countries.
No. A merchant can limit the denomination they'll accept (e.g. no large bills, no pennies) provided their policy is consistent and non-discriminatory and does not diminish the value of legal currency. Legal tender just means that all cash money instruments issued by the US government are "real money".
Checks are not legal tender, so a merchant can refuse them based on any criteria they like, even if they have a policy of accepting checks.
I've seen posts with this link that still got it wrong.
It is not a matter of past or present debts, or debts already incurred verses about to be incurred.
It means that if cash is accepted, then this bill must be accepted. A merchant can not insist on bills backed by precious metals (they were, decades ago), or bills that are not creased, or "the new style" bills, or "the old style" bills, or bills printed after such-and-such a date, or...
I'll bet there are... dozens of people like you, who use OSX only to test web apps in Safari. This is a market Apple can't afford to lose!
Hacking the hosts file works fine, and there are third-party maintained hosts files you can just grab and use. I just wish there was a right-click solution for updating it like "block all images from this server" in Mozilla. Would also be nice to be able to block javascript on a by-site basis.
Not sure how long I'll give this Safari trial. I use Mozilla's image blocking a lot.