C'mon, Facebook is not going to fold after a few years like pets.com. Nobody doubts Facebook will be profitable for years to come. pets.com was spending money it didn't have. I did love the commercials, though.
Actually, in Ukraine savings accounts pay 25% APR, and 15% on USD and EUR accounts.
So Bernie Madoff wasn't running a ponzi scam after all! He put all the money in a Ukrainian savings account!
No. Login names can be anything, as long as they don't reveal hard-to-get information, like SSNs. Email addresses are the perfect login--easy to remember and unique worldwide. A strong, secret password, independent of the login, is good enough.
These studies largely ignore confounding factors, and are useless as a result. A kid who spends large amounts of time watching tv doesn't do homework. The tv watching isn't the cause. A student who spends lots of time playing basketball and does no studying has the same result. We could also conclude that playing basketball affects mental ability as well. A better study: compare students who study the same amount of time, but watch different amounts of tv.
Truthfully, it is the morally correct thing for MS to do, with an operating system so troubled with security issues (historically) which cause real problems worldwide.
There's the problem. It's OK for large publishers to sell crappy books with nice typesetting and pretty color pictures. But an open text with reasonably good content, mediocre typesetting, and simple grayscale figures is supposed to be an abomination. The bar is set way too high for open texts, given the garbage these publishers push.
C'mon, you're pretending that current and past textbooks "engage" students and contain content "students can relate to", thus unnecessarily raising the bar for open texts. Truthfully, most modern textbooks suck. Their selling point is that they have great typesetting and pretty diagrams. One publisher I talked to wanted us to use a newer edition of a geometry text because the figures were in color (but black and white in the older edition). It's hard to take these people seriously.
Anyway, it's a zillion times easier to write an Algebra 1 text than the linux kernel. You can get a great book done in a year with say, 3 contributors and 3 editors. We just need the right leader, and the revolution will begin.
Yes! I can't speak for the grandparent, but a self-employed person must pay his own social security taxes, which means a self-employed person with a $200,000 salary owes probably $10,000 more in taxes than a W2 employee with the same salary.
Actually I saw a case in small claims court where a programmer was being sued because he had seen a company's code but refused to do the job. The company thought they were harmed by a person merely looking at their crappy code. If he had signed an NDA it would have been worse. The programmer won, but I bet he would've lost if he were sued by a large company,.
I paid $10 on Google Voice for calling a relative in the Middle East. However, I've paid $0 in ten years of using Google's other servces. Don't underestimate the price of calling non-western countries.
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It's not free money if you took stocks in lieu of salary and benefits.
C'mon, Facebook is not going to fold after a few years like pets.com. Nobody doubts Facebook will be profitable for years to come. pets.com was spending money it didn't have. I did love the commercials, though.
Actually, in Ukraine savings accounts pay 25% APR, and 15% on USD and EUR accounts.
So Bernie Madoff wasn't running a ponzi scam after all! He put all the money in a Ukrainian savings account!
No. Login names can be anything, as long as they don't reveal hard-to-get information, like SSNs. Email addresses are the perfect login--easy to remember and unique worldwide. A strong, secret password, independent of the login, is good enough.
Dude, everybody does that. It's not the user's fault. It's the designer's fault for creating the stupid requirement.
These studies largely ignore confounding factors, and are useless as a result. A kid who spends large amounts of time watching tv doesn't do homework. The tv watching isn't the cause. A student who spends lots of time playing basketball and does no studying has the same result. We could also conclude that playing basketball affects mental ability as well. A better study: compare students who study the same amount of time, but watch different amounts of tv.
Seamonkey provides a mail client with a much better interface than Thunderbird. The browser is nice too. You should try it.
It is a summary, not an abstract.
Doesn't /etc/hosts usually contain a bunch of IP addresses?
Truthfully, it is the morally correct thing for MS to do, with an operating system so troubled with security issues (historically) which cause real problems worldwide.
There's the problem. It's OK for large publishers to sell crappy books with nice typesetting and pretty color pictures. But an open text with reasonably good content, mediocre typesetting, and simple grayscale figures is supposed to be an abomination. The bar is set way too high for open texts, given the garbage these publishers push.
$165 for Windows 7??? What do you need it for?
C'mon, you're pretending that current and past textbooks "engage" students and contain content "students can relate to", thus unnecessarily raising the bar for open texts. Truthfully, most modern textbooks suck. Their selling point is that they have great typesetting and pretty diagrams. One publisher I talked to wanted us to use a newer edition of a geometry text because the figures were in color (but black and white in the older edition). It's hard to take these people seriously. Anyway, it's a zillion times easier to write an Algebra 1 text than the linux kernel. You can get a great book done in a year with say, 3 contributors and 3 editors. We just need the right leader, and the revolution will begin.
Yes! I can't speak for the grandparent, but a self-employed person must pay his own social security taxes, which means a self-employed person with a $200,000 salary owes probably $10,000 more in taxes than a W2 employee with the same salary.
It would be scary if it were true. But it ain't true. Nevertheless, GREAT topic for discussion!
Actually I saw a case in small claims court where a programmer was being sued because he had seen a company's code but refused to do the job. The company thought they were harmed by a person merely looking at their crappy code. If he had signed an NDA it would have been worse. The programmer won, but I bet he would've lost if he were sued by a large company,.
Reread it. That's not what it says.
Wrong! Here's a news report citing Trayvon Martin's participation in an "open source" club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
After spending more than an hour using H&R block, it told me my taxes were too complicated and I need to talk to a tax professional.
And the software STILL has bugs for doing even mildly complicated things.
I paid $10 on Google Voice for calling a relative in the Middle East. However, I've paid $0 in ten years of using Google's other servces. Don't underestimate the price of calling non-western countries.
No sales taxes on services.
Let's stop perpetuating this myth. Benjamin Franklin DID NOT invent electricity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwTADnsFrPA
...as in, "Holey Optochip, Batman! Than was fast!" How creative.
$2700 per student could be for Adobe/Microsoft/Whatever software licenses. The hardware is much cheaper.