I'm always confusing the search engine, with the mathematical concept.
How about King Features Syndicate suing Google instead. At least their character is spelled the same (Barney Google), had been around since 1919 and appeared on USPS stamps starting in 1995, in time for those evil Google search engine folks to cash in on Barney's famous name!
Basic math; average != median. You two are actually referring to different things. He's saying average American which would refer to average salary, not median as you refer to.
salary is a subset of income, not equal to it; for many people it is pretty equal to income, but not for the rich. You say median salary, but the chart refer to median income, different things
Oracle today is like IBM, no one ever got fired for buying Oracle. But most of the people who buy Oracle should be fired. In the vast majority of cases, Oracle is overkill, smaller DBMSs like MySQL or Postgres perform better and have a much lower TCO. Being able to handle databases of any size means an enormous amount of internal configuration options.
AMEN! I work in a mid-size non-profit that brought in Oracle to set up a modern online financial database a couple of years ago.
It's been a disaster! One the main reason's is that we are too small for Oracle to have set up a system that really meets our needs, instead we get a more off the shelf system that they recycled from some larger clients. A smaller company would have cared about us as a client more because we would have been a bigger client to them.
To save money airlines have been laying off people who answer phones. Instead they encourage people to use the web. Partly by offering cheaper online prices.
So if you call you... pay more (has been mentioned elswhere in thread.) And you wait longer, if you get through at all. Calling after hours when no agents are available is not a substitute for being able to order 24/7 online.
Yes, there is sense in the ADA, but some of it goes just a wee-bit too far. Braile on drive-through ATM's? (I know, it is cheaper to standardise them all to have it than to have different versions for drive-through and walk-up to ones.) However, the point is still made.
Missing the point....The driver may not be the one using the braile it could be the passenger, (which I've seen a number of times!)
It reminds me of when Oklahoma City bombing happened. When at first it was blamed on Muslims in the media they were terrorists. But when it was white militia men...the word terrorist faded from the media. And I certainly don't recall a outcry to profile these groups. Round them up and arrest them., etc.
Or the shootings, assults and arsons linked to these white power Christian fundamentalist groups. Why aren't they called Christian terrorists?!? A number of which are members of the same Christian church sect!
Don't even get me started about the killings, bombings, assults, arsons and anthrax scares linked to anti-abortion groups. How come they aren't called terrorists?!?
You can bet, that if a group talked of a need to eliminate bankers. Posted assassination lists online of key bankers, some of which were later killed. Had bombed a number of banks, set fires to others, harassed customers, sent in anthrax scares to banks...You bet the FBI would be rounding them up fast!
Or how with all the school shootings, the media avoids talking about the pattern of them being middle-class white teen males? It's all kept vague and they refer how it's hard to find a pattern!
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Yeah, sure this makes sense...
I'm always confusing the search engine, with the mathematical concept.
How about King Features Syndicate suing Google instead. At least their character is spelled the same (Barney Google), had been around since 1919 and appeared on USPS stamps starting in 1995, in time for those evil Google search engine folks to cash in on Barney's famous name!
Barney Google - page down a bit.
Well, I'm still waiting for flying cars and personal jetpacks! I, for one, feel ripped off!
Is this kind of like in the 50s when some expert said that nuclear power was going to make electricity free?
The heck with that! I'm going to claim ownership of the English language!
Anytime you write, speak, read or listen to anything in English you owe me bucks!
That's why we have to invade Iraq!
Because Saddam is supporting spamming!
- Michaelfifth race - an allegience between The Ancients, The Asgaurd and XX and XX.
Furlings & Nox
- MichaelWhile I agree with you, I'd point out that there is a precedent in your roadway example
entirely fair that the states charge more to the people who drive more.
Trucks and buses pay higher tolls and special taxes based on the greater usage/damage they do to the roads.
- MichaelTwo things to keep in mind
- Michael
Oracle today is like IBM, no one ever got fired for buying Oracle. But most of the people who buy Oracle should be fired. In the vast majority of cases, Oracle is overkill, smaller DBMSs like MySQL or Postgres perform better and have a much lower TCO. Being able to handle databases of any size means an enormous amount of internal configuration options.
AMEN! I work in a mid-size non-profit that brought in Oracle to set up a modern online financial database a couple of years ago.
It's been a disaster! One the main reason's is that we are too small for Oracle to have set up a system that really meets our needs, instead we get a more off the shelf system that they recycled from some larger clients. A smaller company would have cared about us as a client more because we would have been a bigger client to them.
But to Oracle...
- MichaelDMA: "Oh, spank us!! Spank us!! We've been ever so naughty!"
- MichaelTo save money airlines have been laying off people who answer phones. Instead they encourage people to use the web. Partly by offering cheaper online prices.
So if you call you... pay more (has been mentioned elswhere in thread.) And you wait longer, if you get through at all. Calling after hours when no agents are available is not a substitute for being able to order 24/7 online.
- MichaelYes, there is sense in the ADA, but some of it goes just a wee-bit too far. Braile on drive-through ATM's? (I know, it is cheaper to standardise them all to have it than to have different versions for drive-through and walk-up to ones.) However, the point is still made.
Missing the point....The driver may not be the one using the braile it could be the passenger, (which I've seen a number of times!)
- MichaelIt reminds me of when Oklahoma City bombing happened. When at first it was blamed on Muslims in the media they were terrorists. But when it was white militia men...the word terrorist faded from the media. And I certainly don't recall a outcry to profile these groups. Round them up and arrest them., etc.
Or the shootings, assults and arsons linked to these white power Christian fundamentalist groups. Why aren't they called Christian terrorists?!? A number of which are members of the same Christian church sect!
Don't even get me started about the killings, bombings, assults, arsons and anthrax scares linked to anti-abortion groups. How come they aren't called terrorists?!?
You can bet, that if a group talked of a need to eliminate bankers. Posted assassination lists online of key bankers, some of which were later killed. Had bombed a number of banks, set fires to others, harassed customers, sent in anthrax scares to banks...You bet the FBI would be rounding them up fast!
Or how with all the school shootings, the media avoids talking about the pattern of them being middle-class white teen males? It's all kept vague and they refer how it's hard to find a pattern!
- MichaelAbsolutely! Heck, I'm tired of big government stomping on our rights to kill people.
You can't really call it a free society if you can't kill people who annoy you!
And what about the pointless PC (Politically Correct) laws against cannibalism!
- MichaelObviously you're just buying the propaganda that the superintelligent mice who secretly run the planet put out to keep us enslaved! :-)
- Michael
I also like how the phone company charges you a monthly fee not be listed in the directory.
Imagine if companies you did business with - charged you a monthly fee not to distribute your contact information!
(Don't even get me started on how many phone companies still charge for touch-tone service each month, even though that is the standard now!)