If you wouldn't normally buy the stock from a regular broker or online trader, why would you want to be paid in the stock?
Keep that in the front of your mind: "If I were working at Wal-Mart, would I buy this stock?" If the answer is no, ask for money rather than stock. If yes, go for it.
If you wouldn't buy it normally, what makes you think it's worth anything, other than the say-so of somebody else (who you don't _really_ know) -- it's conceptually similar to fully trusting the salesman who hosts an infomercial on late-night TV when he says it slices and dices and will cut the fat by 80%.
When I worked at Worldcom, I would take options as payment -- Worldcom stock is worthwhile stock. If I had been working at Pets.com, I would not have taken options -- it's outside of my risk tolerance to buy startup-stock.
..All the while, Tolkien heatedly denied any allegory in LOTR. In fact, he claimed that he thought allegory in storytelling was perfectly awful.
The king of allegory, C.S. Lewis, was a friend of Tolkien. Lewis has said that while at Cambrige he was told to "beware of Papists [Lewis was a Protestant] and philologists. Tolkien was both."
The stories were born out of bedtime tales he told his children and his philological interest in inventing a language (Elvish). Pretty cool. "Beware by whom you are called sane."
Okay, maybe mathmatician is a strong word. How about "any person with a checkbook" then?
When using the calculator to figure out how much is in their checking account, the end result (usually fitting on a 10 digit calculator) tells the person:
how much money they have
whether or not they can buy that HDTV
how many bills they can pay
My point is that even a simple number, in context, gives massive ammounts of information. It's all in the context and how it's accessed, not the size of the display.
But then, I think you knew that and was just trying to be irritating... "Beware by whom you are called sane."
It sounds like you need an iBook running Mac OS X.
No, it's not a PDA, but i's pretty small, pretty light, and covers pretty much what you want, and $300 cheaper too.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
E.g. If there were a combo pager/cell/pda I think many people would flock to it, provided it wasn't filled with bloat.
If there was a hover-car/boat/jet plane, I think many people would flock to it, provided it wasn't expensive.
Bloat is relative -- vis. emacs vs. vi religious wars. I don't want my Palm acting as a phone. It's too unweildy to use as a phone (the width of it, I mean). However, I sure think it's stupid that I have phone numbers in two places -- in my phone and in my Palm. I'd like to be able to sync those to together. However, I don't want to be FORCED to carry both (i.e. in order to recall phone numbers I have to have the Palm). If they synced automagically, even better.
The screen size is not the problem -- you can display plenty of information on a very small screen. As an example, look at a regular 10 digit display calculator. In the hands of a mathmatician, it can convey MASSIVE ammounts of information in a meaningful way. A Palm (or even a cellphone display) can do the same, as long as the information is displayed in such a way that the information is easily retrievable.
It's not the ammount of information, it's how it's presented.
My question to you is this: We can change the draft laws. We can get rid of the entire government. But the guys with all the money still have all the money. What do we do when *they* hold a gun to us and tell us to defend their property?
This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the market works. It's tempting to think of money and markets as a big pie -- i.e. if I have a big piece, you have a smaller piece. However, the reality is non-intuitive.
You can create new wealth at any time, without taking from somebody else.
But to answer your question (What do we do when *they* hold a gun to us and tell us to defend their property?) We point a gun right back at 'em! Please tell me the last time Proctor & Gamble (or GM, if you prefer) made you go to war? (I mean directly, not "They bought senators who voted for the war") "Beware by whom you are called sane."
I don't think consumers will be dumb enough to allow the record and movie industries to move from selling copies to selling licenses. Nor will
they allow themselves to be duped into high-costing service contracts.
These are the same consumers who:
Keep McDonalds in business
Keep Microsoft solvent
Keep N'Sync bumping-and-grinding
Keep WalMart in business
As long as a product is shiny and endorsed by beautiful people doing exciting things, there are a significant number of people who will buy it without regard to "freedoms" or "liberty" or "common sense". "Beware by whom you are called sane."
This is why such sites are
usually powered by a moderate (typical site) to huge (Amazon, eBay) database with an enormous redundancy built in.
Well, I'd think that eBay would split things up, as should Amazon, if they don't already.
Sure, if the Computer section of eBay goes south the computer bidders are pissed, but it doesn't affect the Beanie Baby contingent.
I think that the real reason that eBay/Amazon/Things 'N' Stuff aren't doing massive clustering (if, indeed they aren't) is that it takes quite a bit of planning and design to get something like that set up, and Amazon and eBay couldn't take the time. You have to be fast if you want to "build a brand"! Plus, to a greater or lesser extent, Google runs a single algorithm. Amazon runs a thousand of 'em, sometimes 4 or 5 a page. "Beware by whom you are called sane."
The best part about a book -- a well written book, not a "How to Be and Unleashed Dummy in 21 Days" book -- is the time and care put into it by a host of professionals, whereas a Web resource tends to be cobbled together from a community of geniuses and idiots alike.
Look at Slashdot -- some of it is great, some of it would wither a pile of dog poo it's so bad. php.net is similar -- the function reference is good if you're looking for arguments to a rarely used function, but the user-contributed stuff is off-and-on useful.
That's partially why you pay $50 for a good tech book -- the team of people needed to put together a *good* book is quite expensive. You need a knowledgeable author, a clued-in editor, a savvy fact-checker... all these people cost money.
You, too, can write Silicon Valley press releases!
[Thing], originally a research project spearheaded by [famous employee] and [semi-famous employee or soon-to-be famous employee], is now an [buzzword], with a vision to
enable developers to create innovative services and applications. It addresses the need for an open, generalized [CS term] that interoperates with any peer on the network including PCs, servers and other connected devices.
It's a good thing you're not running the Java version of the ACS!:)
(Actually, I'm kidding a bit -- I have no idea about the performace difference between the Java and Tcl versions of the ACS. All I know is if worst came to worst, I could teach an "HTML programmer" Tcl a lot faster than Java, and thus I prefer the Tcl ACS)
But to call the E450 a squirrell-powered box is a little misleading. When I was working at WorldCom, we used E450s to serve the Intranet. Dunno if it's still that way or not, but the E450 is a workhorse of a machine. Heck, I remember when photo.net was being run off a pizza box Sun with wimpy 180mhz procs. "Beware by whom you are called sane."
First, I like what you're doing -- aquaculture is seriously cool. Keep it up.
Second, your problem here is not to identify the vandals after they've come and gone. Sure, you might be able to put them in jail (if you're lucky). I wouldn't count on them being able to financially reimburse you.
You don't want anything like this to happen again. The way to ensure that is to move your boat to a better marina. Find a marina with a resident harbormaster -- if he lives there, he'll make damn sure that it's secure.
Those kinds of marina slips are expensive, so maybe you can use the info on webcams that people are giving here to barter with the harbormaster -- in return for a discounted slip, you provide a remote camera system for the other tenents. Not much for security, but it makes boat people feel better if they can check on their boat whenever they want. Especially if they're a 40' Hatteras boat person... "Beware by whom you are called sane."
Complaints about BLOCKQUOTE? I wonder why? That's a fundamental tag... Using UL as it is being used (i.e. without a LI item) is more likely to break browsers than BLOCKQUOTE...
If it's the distance BLOCKQUOTE indents the text, that's why God and Tim gave us CSS.
For wireless... I dunno. I don't have a WAP phone. I use iSilo to grab slashdot.org/palm/, which works wonders. I wish it was a bit more configurable, but then I wish the same thing for ALL of the Web. Come on, XML, make all my dreams come true! "Beware by whom you are called sane."
The only way Slashdot is barely tolerable is via light mode! Grandted, it'd be nice if all the comments in light mode weren't all contained in one big honkin' <TABLE>, and nested comments were delineated with <BLOCKQUOTE> like God and Tim-Berners Lee intened, rather than the rather brain-sick <UL> tags.
HTML hint of the day -- if you contain 192K of comments in one big table, most browsers in use today can't see bupkis until the whole mess is downloaded and rendered. Whereas, if it's not contained in one big <TABLE>, it streams out to the browser all nice like. "Beware by whom you are called sane."
These kids had no value for
human life, and they didn't lose that value from video games. It could have long time exposure to movies, tv, games, AND a lack of parental
guidance, but who really knows.
How about some 1.6 million abortions every year. If Mom and Dad can abort little Jessica, why can't I kill that gigantic prick at school? "Beware by whom you are called sane."
You moron -- that's no way to develop applications. What are you, a first year Fortran student?
The proper way to develop software is to have long, pointless meetings where techies can show off their intelligence, marketeers can display their ignorance and managers can "lead".
Then, everybody pisses around reading Slashdot while a few firebrands argue over what kind of versioning system to use: "CVS!" "RCVS!"
When half of the estimated time has past, the programmers start screaming about the Mythical Man-Month and how marketing is full of shit, while reconfiguring the Cisco switch to cut latency for Quake deathmatches.
Marketing then begins to sell the product to customers, promising to have asked-for features implemented "at beta".
Two weeks before due date, the programmers work 22 hour days cobbling an application from stolen code from previous jobs, algorithms designed in a drunken stupor, and (apparently) one programmer bashing his face into the keyboard.
This fresh, steaming turd gets pushed out the door to tumultuous disdain. Programmers blame marketing, marketing blames management, and the customers get told that it's Microsoft's fault.
So keep your wacky ideas to yourself, okay rookie?
The cost of computers isn't very high. It's the cost of people to fix and maintain the computers and software to run on the computers that's expensive. This doesn't save on the first, and doesn't address the second. It's a convenience, sure, but not really money-saving.
Plus, corporations depreciate their equipment on their balance sheets, so the hardware is (to a greater or lesser extent) at no cost. However, Windows and MS Office and such is VERY expensive, and you can't depreciate software (that I'm aware of).
Seems to me that ClearCube and, say, RedHat oughta be talking to each other... "Beware by whom you are called sane."
* Over Easter, my grandmother kept asking me questions about programming. "How do you know what to tell the computer?" Can anyone come
up with a good answer, because that stumped me.
Tell her that you translate English step-by-step instructions to computer-ese. When you boil it down, that's what programming is: you figure out what you want to do, figure out the steps to get you there, then translate your steps into $FAVORITELANGUAGE.
Slashdot Mirror
If you wouldn't normally buy the stock from a regular broker or online trader, why would you want to be paid in the stock?
Keep that in the front of your mind: "If I were working at Wal-Mart, would I buy this stock?" If the answer is no, ask for money rather than stock. If yes, go for it.
If you wouldn't buy it normally, what makes you think it's worth anything, other than the say-so of somebody else (who you don't _really_ know) -- it's conceptually similar to fully trusting the salesman who hosts an infomercial on late-night TV when he says it slices and dices and will cut the fat by 80%.
When I worked at Worldcom, I would take options as payment -- Worldcom stock is worthwhile stock. If I had been working at Pets.com, I would not have taken options -- it's outside of my risk tolerance to buy startup-stock.
I though Theo dumped ipf, but from the release notes:
So, is all forgiven, or what?
Ross Perot's based out of Texas, not Nevada.
Hillary Clinton's in New York/Washington D.C.
Besides, what makes Bigelow a crazy megalomaniac? Because he's got money and wants to build a space station?
..All the while, Tolkien heatedly denied any allegory in LOTR. In fact, he claimed that he thought allegory in storytelling was perfectly awful.
The king of allegory, C.S. Lewis, was a friend of Tolkien. Lewis has said that while at Cambrige he was told to "beware of Papists [Lewis was a Protestant] and philologists. Tolkien was both."
The stories were born out of bedtime tales he told his children and his philological interest in inventing a language (Elvish). Pretty cool.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Okay, maybe mathmatician is a strong word. How about "any person with a checkbook" then?
When using the calculator to figure out how much is in their checking account, the end result (usually fitting on a 10 digit calculator) tells the person:
My point is that even a simple number, in context, gives massive ammounts of information. It's all in the context and how it's accessed, not the size of the display.
But then, I think you knew that and was just trying to be irritating...
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
It sounds like you need an iBook running Mac OS X.
No, it's not a PDA, but i's pretty small, pretty light, and covers pretty much what you want, and $300 cheaper too.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
You're all alone, then. Apple's 2K series Newton was just that, and they sold about 12 of 'em. No steel case, but it was sturdy.
What you ask for costs big money (well, it did 4 years ago). Nobody wanted it.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
If there was a hover-car/boat/jet plane, I think many people would flock to it, provided it wasn't expensive.
Bloat is relative -- vis. emacs vs. vi religious wars. I don't want my Palm acting as a phone. It's too unweildy to use as a phone (the width of it, I mean). However, I sure think it's stupid that I have phone numbers in two places -- in my phone and in my Palm. I'd like to be able to sync those to together. However, I don't want to be FORCED to carry both (i.e. in order to recall phone numbers I have to have the Palm). If they synced automagically, even better.
The screen size is not the problem -- you can display plenty of information on a very small screen. As an example, look at a regular 10 digit display calculator. In the hands of a mathmatician, it can convey MASSIVE ammounts of information in a meaningful way. A Palm (or even a cellphone display) can do the same, as long as the information is displayed in such a way that the information is easily retrievable.
It's not the ammount of information, it's how it's presented.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the market works. It's tempting to think of money and markets as a big pie -- i.e. if I have a big piece, you have a smaller piece. However, the reality is non-intuitive.
You can create new wealth at any time, without taking from somebody else.
But to answer your question (What do we do when *they* hold a gun to us and tell us to defend their property?) We point a gun right back at 'em! Please tell me the last time Proctor & Gamble (or GM, if you prefer) made you go to war? (I mean directly, not "They bought senators who voted for the war")
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Please -- here's the main difference between big government and big business.
Big Business has to sell the Vietnam War to you.
Big Government can just draft your ass and ship you overseas under threat of imprisonment and/or death.
Now, which one is better again? Maybe you need to spend some more time thinking about it.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
These are the same consumers who:
As long as a product is shiny and endorsed by beautiful people doing exciting things, there are a significant number of people who will buy it without regard to "freedoms" or "liberty" or "common sense".
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
... and maybe this is why nobody's worried about competition from the Russian software industry...
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Well, I'd think that eBay would split things up, as should Amazon, if they don't already.
Sure, if the Computer section of eBay goes south the computer bidders are pissed, but it doesn't affect the Beanie Baby contingent.
I think that the real reason that eBay/Amazon/Things 'N' Stuff aren't doing massive clustering (if, indeed they aren't) is that it takes quite a bit of planning and design to get something like that set up, and Amazon and eBay couldn't take the time. You have to be fast if you want to "build a brand"! Plus, to a greater or lesser extent, Google runs a single algorithm. Amazon runs a thousand of 'em, sometimes 4 or 5 a page.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
The best part about a book -- a well written book, not a "How to Be and Unleashed Dummy in 21 Days" book -- is the time and care put into it by a host of professionals, whereas a Web resource tends to be cobbled together from a community of geniuses and idiots alike.
Look at Slashdot -- some of it is great, some of it would wither a pile of dog poo it's so bad. php.net is similar -- the function reference is good if you're looking for arguments to a rarely used function, but the user-contributed stuff is off-and-on useful.
That's partially why you pay $50 for a good tech book -- the team of people needed to put together a *good* book is quite expensive. You need a knowledgeable author, a clued-in editor, a savvy fact-checker... all these people cost money.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
You, too, can write Silicon Valley press releases!
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Hmm... I thought photo.net was using another box for the RDBMS. Shows you what I know...
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
It's a good thing you're not running the Java version of the ACS! :)
(Actually, I'm kidding a bit -- I have no idea about the performace difference between the Java and Tcl versions of the ACS. All I know is if worst came to worst, I could teach an "HTML programmer" Tcl a lot faster than Java, and thus I prefer the Tcl ACS)
But to call the E450 a squirrell-powered box is a little misleading. When I was working at WorldCom, we used E450s to serve the Intranet. Dunno if it's still that way or not, but the E450 is a workhorse of a machine. Heck, I remember when photo.net was being run off a pizza box Sun with wimpy 180mhz procs.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
First, I like what you're doing -- aquaculture is seriously cool. Keep it up.
Second, your problem here is not to identify the vandals after they've come and gone. Sure, you might be able to put them in jail (if you're lucky). I wouldn't count on them being able to financially reimburse you.
You don't want anything like this to happen again. The way to ensure that is to move your boat to a better marina. Find a marina with a resident harbormaster -- if he lives there, he'll make damn sure that it's secure.
Those kinds of marina slips are expensive, so maybe you can use the info on webcams that people are giving here to barter with the harbormaster -- in return for a discounted slip, you provide a remote camera system for the other tenents. Not much for security, but it makes boat people feel better if they can check on their boat whenever they want. Especially if they're a 40' Hatteras boat person...
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Complaints about BLOCKQUOTE? I wonder why? That's a fundamental tag... Using UL as it is being used (i.e. without a LI item) is more likely to break browsers than BLOCKQUOTE...
If it's the distance BLOCKQUOTE indents the text, that's why God and Tim gave us CSS.
For wireless... I dunno. I don't have a WAP phone. I use iSilo to grab slashdot.org/palm/, which works wonders. I wish it was a bit more configurable, but then I wish the same thing for ALL of the Web. Come on, XML, make all my dreams come true!
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
The only way Slashdot is barely tolerable is via light mode! Grandted, it'd be nice if all the comments in light mode weren't all contained in one big honkin' <TABLE>, and nested comments were delineated with <BLOCKQUOTE> like God and Tim-Berners Lee intened, rather than the rather brain-sick <UL> tags.
HTML hint of the day -- if you contain 192K of comments in one big table, most browsers in use today can't see bupkis until the whole mess is downloaded and rendered. Whereas, if it's not contained in one big <TABLE>, it streams out to the browser all nice like.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
How about some 1.6 million abortions every year. If Mom and Dad can abort little Jessica, why can't I kill that gigantic prick at school?
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
You moron -- that's no way to develop applications. What are you, a first year Fortran student?
The proper way to develop software is to have long, pointless meetings where techies can show off their intelligence, marketeers can display their ignorance and managers can "lead".
Then, everybody pisses around reading Slashdot while a few firebrands argue over what kind of versioning system to use: "CVS!" "RCVS!"
When half of the estimated time has past, the programmers start screaming about the Mythical Man-Month and how marketing is full of shit, while reconfiguring the Cisco switch to cut latency for Quake deathmatches.
Marketing then begins to sell the product to customers, promising to have asked-for features implemented "at beta".
Two weeks before due date, the programmers work 22 hour days cobbling an application from stolen code from previous jobs, algorithms designed in a drunken stupor, and (apparently) one programmer bashing his face into the keyboard.
This fresh, steaming turd gets pushed out the door to tumultuous disdain. Programmers blame marketing, marketing blames management, and the customers get told that it's Microsoft's fault.
So keep your wacky ideas to yourself, okay rookie?
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
The cost of computers isn't very high. It's the cost of people to fix and maintain the computers and software to run on the computers that's expensive. This doesn't save on the first, and doesn't address the second. It's a convenience, sure, but not really money-saving.
Plus, corporations depreciate their equipment on their balance sheets, so the hardware is (to a greater or lesser extent) at no cost. However, Windows and MS Office and such is VERY expensive, and you can't depreciate software (that I'm aware of).
Seems to me that ClearCube and, say, RedHat oughta be talking to each other...
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Tell her that you translate English step-by-step instructions to computer-ese. When you boil it down, that's what programming is: you figure out what you want to do, figure out the steps to get you there, then translate your steps into $FAVORITELANGUAGE.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."