How about there comes a point where it makes no sense to continue subdividing money? In parts of europe registers round to the nearest 0.05 EUR so pennies are not seen anymore. Sometimes it's in your favor and sometimes it's not -- but on average you are flat (since rounding is basically random).
Really it only makes sense to mint / print money that actually makes a difference in transactions.
And if you don't like my argument, pray tell why the Hay Penny doesn't exist anymore? Maybe we should bring it back as well, since we shouldn't discontinue units of currency too small to matter?
Maybe all the grammar nazis and goatse posting acs will go to the new slashdot and leave the rest of us in peace. Or they'll stay here and I can go there and be in peace.
Pffff. You'll notice Arthur Anderson, or Accenture, is no longer one of the big five accounting firms. They DID dismantle a good chunk of the old Arthur Anderson. But the firm was big enough that why would you dismantle the whole thing, and seemingly unrelated businesses?
It does. Arthur andersen folded after Enron, and the bits that were left over got rebranded (since they did not want the stigma from the Enron fiasco attached to their name)
A LEO may in the course of his or her duties come across information that he can't use. For instance, hearsay is inadmissable in a court of law so if someone tells a cop he heard you say something, it is not something you could use to send the person to jail. Then the officer is allowed to dig up, legally, evidence that might be able to use to convict. With warrants and proper investigation.
The problem is that the DEA takes this one step further. They take investigative measures they're not supposed to, and then try to do the whole "well let's find some legal way to find this."
Well I do sort of understand this but I do think the issue is the way it's presented.
A lot of companies set aside budgets for things like "Team Building." I don't find it strange that you have something similar I do find the distribution method strange. I would expect that, rather than saying we pay 10% extra per employee, they would spend it on group things (like parties or team building events) or award people who have gone above and beyond (and this may be
Also, do you pay taxes on the 10%? If not, then it's not really a salary and you shouldn't have the expectation that you HAVE to have it.
Imagine you got paid $200,000/yr to mop the floors. Would you get pissed every time somebody spilled some coffee? Probably not, because you knew you got paid well to mop floors. Well, most jobs are like that, especially when it comes to your relationship with management.
Yes, but what if the $200,000 was contingent on you not leaving work unless you were going home to sleep, and you could get woken up in the middle of the night and called back in? And what if, because you can't go home to cook you just get fatter and fatter because you end up needing to get fast food or to order in?
It's not really deceitful. It was never the employees choice on what to spend the budget on. And so long as you agree to a fair wage with him or her, if you are spending an extra 10% on perks, it's just something nice. After all, many companies underpay and don't give any perks!
I once had a job that paid twice what I make in my current job. It was so horrible (I was on call 24 hours a day) I referred to it as "selling my soul" when people asked me what I did. I got the big raise because I told them I was quitting, and I literally was the only one who could (or would) do the work.
I ended up quitting and finding a job with more reasonable hours that let me come home and actually be happy.
Money is a funny thing.
If you make too little of it, you'll be unhappy. Even if the job is nice, if you are underpaid enough, you'll be miserable.
But, on the flip side, just throwing money at people will not make them happy. If my old boss had addressed some of the quality of life issues like getting called on to do work at midnight on a friday night, I might have enjoyed the job and stayed. There was no real reason I needed to field calls at midnight except upper management in a different time zone wanted to be able to wait until the end of their day to give me a call.
Not claiming OO is better mind you, but rather correcting your claim that MS is that much better than everyone else. 10 years ago I would have agreed with you, but not recently.
MS isn't better than everyone else, it's more accepted and people are more familiar with it.
All of those examples I had something as good (or better) than MS.
However, because people want something specific, it's not possible to use something different.
That's the problem with stepping outside the MS paradigm, you immediately make your solution unusable by a lot of people because they just don't know anything else. Which is why, in your example, I would have used Visual Basic in your example. And as opposed to your perl, everyone who has excel will be able to run it when I put a big button on the spreadsheet linked to the macro (and don't get me wrong I love perl!)
The reason office has a stranglehold on the market is that they've implemented every feature you could possibly want in your word processor / spreadsheet.
That's why I currently run Office. Every time I try an alternative (OpenOffice, Pages, Numbers, etc.) there's something missing that the developers didn't consider "necessary."
That sort of thing makes it hard to use other programs for a. school work (but professor, OO/Pages won't let me do a landscape section break and OO/Numbers doesn't have a Data Analysis pack!) b. office work (sorry boss but I can't use existing visual basic macros with OO/Pages/Numbers!) c. other professional work you need to share (sorry mr. recruiter but Word can't correctly render OO documents, you should blame them and give me the job even though my resume doesn't look good!)
Oh and I've tried to make things work. R or any number of statistical packages makes the Excel data analysis toolpack look like a joke. But providing the professor with a completely new format for your regression outputs is not good for your grade. He's familiar with the M$ way, and will only get annoyed you couldn't produce output in his predesired format. Even if Excel can't look at colinearity or autocorrelation or any other of a number of things you really might want to look at.
(All these are real examples from the past year when I switched to Mac. I ended up having to buy MS Office for Mac after quite a bit of headache.)
Yeah but there's a LOT that goes under that carbon fiber shell. A shell alone is useless.
You can build a kit car out of an old pontiac that doesn't go fast but doesn't look nice, or you can build it out of something with balls like a Corvette or Porsche that won't do the same in time trials as a Lamborghini, but it sure will go fast.
Comments like this make me laugh because we are a long way from a star trek style replicator that can just make a car appear. Best case scenario now is that if you have one of these expensive machines, and an expensive aluminum milling machine, you could make all the parts you'd need for a Lamborghini. But you'd still need to assemble the thing and it would still cost you an arm and a leg in raw materials.
Maybe at some point 3d printers like this will come with a robot that can assemble multiple parts. But every part you 3d print has to be attached to something else, you can't just have it print something in thin air.
Today you can go online and order after market parts from a company specializing in making replacement parts. But if you need to go to the dealership to get your car serviced it won't help because they'll still use genuine parts. Servicing yourself is still an issue unless you are a gear head
In my apartment building, on the 2.4Ghz range, I get maybe 100 different wifi networks, including the coffeeshop down the street.
When I switched to 5 Ghz only, there were many fewer networks (and much less interference). Sure some of that is because so many people run 2.4 Ghz. But even if they did, I wouldn't see nearly as much interference.
Although I do hope Coffee Company doesn't switch to 5 Ghz. It's nice to steal their wifi when mine goes out.
You can see a video of the machine in action. It appears that it lays down strips of carbon fiber... Not sure the exact mechanism, the quality, or anything like that, but the machine is printing SOMETHING.
For many many years it's been possible to buy parts that allow you to change a car to look like your favorite super car. Just do a quick google for "Kit Car." $10k + an appropriate body to put the kit on will allow you to have your very own knock off.
However, just because you CAN get parts that look like a lambo doesn't mean people run out of their way to get one. I suspect it will be the same. After you pay $10k to print up a Gallardo shell, you still need to install the thing. Which takes time and skill to get right.
And even then, people who know what a real supercar looks like will be able to tell that your knock off isn't real. Just like, despite the fact that you can get a perfectly good Louis Vuitton fake from China, people still buy the real thing.
So it's a non issue. Even if you could print one the labor involved (and cost of raw materials) wouldn't mean you could just "print a gallardo."
What IS interesting is if you would like to customize your car, you will be able to do things you could never do before.
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If that's true then a call to your friendly Attorney General's office should fix things right up.
You're posting articles about beta in an unrelated thread which makes you just as much of a troll.
What's worse is Taco's comments aren't really that bad, but in typical slashdot reactionary fashion you probably didn't even read the article.
How about there comes a point where it makes no sense to continue subdividing money? In parts of europe registers round to the nearest 0.05 EUR so pennies are not seen anymore. Sometimes it's in your favor and sometimes it's not -- but on average you are flat (since rounding is basically random).
Really it only makes sense to mint / print money that actually makes a difference in transactions.
And if you don't like my argument, pray tell why the Hay Penny doesn't exist anymore? Maybe we should bring it back as well, since we shouldn't discontinue units of currency too small to matter?
Maybe all the grammar nazis and goatse posting acs will go to the new slashdot and leave the rest of us in peace. Or they'll stay here and I can go there and be in peace.
Funny they state part of their goal is NOT to poach from slashdot. Which is what you are encouraging.
dude beta sucks big giant hairy goat balls
Pffff. You'll notice Arthur Anderson, or Accenture, is no longer one of the big five accounting firms. They DID dismantle a good chunk of the old Arthur Anderson. But the firm was big enough that why would you dismantle the whole thing, and seemingly unrelated businesses?
It does. Arthur andersen folded after Enron, and the bits that were left over got rebranded (since they did not want the stigma from the Enron fiasco attached to their name)
I don't think you read my post very closely...
This is slashdot. He probably didn't read your post at all before responding.
That's not really a good argument even if it was true.
There's all kinds of big fiascos where this was used (unsuccssfully) to defend what people did, like with Enron, or the subprime mess
It's about over reaching.
A LEO may in the course of his or her duties come across information that he can't use. For instance, hearsay is inadmissable in a court of law so if someone tells a cop he heard you say something, it is not something you could use to send the person to jail. Then the officer is allowed to dig up, legally, evidence that might be able to use to convict. With warrants and proper investigation.
The problem is that the DEA takes this one step further. They take investigative measures they're not supposed to, and then try to do the whole "well let's find some legal way to find this."
That's the issue.
Well I do sort of understand this but I do think the issue is the way it's presented.
A lot of companies set aside budgets for things like "Team Building." I don't find it strange that you have something similar I do find the distribution method strange. I would expect that, rather than saying we pay 10% extra per employee, they would spend it on group things (like parties or team building events) or award people who have gone above and beyond (and this may be
Also, do you pay taxes on the 10%? If not, then it's not really a salary and you shouldn't have the expectation that you HAVE to have it.
Imagine you got paid $200,000/yr to mop the floors. Would you get pissed every time somebody spilled some coffee? Probably not, because you knew you got paid well to mop floors. Well, most jobs are like that, especially when it comes to your relationship with management.
Yes, but what if the $200,000 was contingent on you not leaving work unless you were going home to sleep, and you could get woken up in the middle of the night and called back in? And what if, because you can't go home to cook you just get fatter and fatter because you end up needing to get fast food or to order in?
It's not really deceitful. It was never the employees choice on what to spend the budget on. And so long as you agree to a fair wage with him or her, if you are spending an extra 10% on perks, it's just something nice. After all, many companies underpay and don't give any perks!
Well, sort of.
I once had a job that paid twice what I make in my current job. It was so horrible (I was on call 24 hours a day) I referred to it as "selling my soul" when people asked me what I did. I got the big raise because I told them I was quitting, and I literally was the only one who could (or would) do the work.
I ended up quitting and finding a job with more reasonable hours that let me come home and actually be happy.
Money is a funny thing.
If you make too little of it, you'll be unhappy. Even if the job is nice, if you are underpaid enough, you'll be miserable.
But, on the flip side, just throwing money at people will not make them happy. If my old boss had addressed some of the quality of life issues like getting called on to do work at midnight on a friday night, I might have enjoyed the job and stayed. There was no real reason I needed to field calls at midnight except upper management in a different time zone wanted to be able to wait until the end of their day to give me a call.
Is that because the wife can hear you screaming for a beer but you can't hear her screaming at you?
Not claiming OO is better mind you, but rather correcting your claim that MS is that much better than everyone else. 10 years ago I would have agreed with you, but not recently.
MS isn't better than everyone else, it's more accepted and people are more familiar with it.
All of those examples I had something as good (or better) than MS.
However, because people want something specific, it's not possible to use something different.
That's the problem with stepping outside the MS paradigm, you immediately make your solution unusable by a lot of people because they just don't know anything else. Which is why, in your example, I would have used Visual Basic in your example. And as opposed to your perl, everyone who has excel will be able to run it when I put a big button on the spreadsheet linked to the macro (and don't get me wrong I love perl!)
Not completely true.
The reason office has a stranglehold on the market is that they've implemented every feature you could possibly want in your word processor / spreadsheet.
That's why I currently run Office. Every time I try an alternative (OpenOffice, Pages, Numbers, etc.) there's something missing that the developers didn't consider "necessary."
That sort of thing makes it hard to use other programs for
a. school work (but professor, OO/Pages won't let me do a landscape section break and OO/Numbers doesn't have a Data Analysis pack!)
b. office work (sorry boss but I can't use existing visual basic macros with OO/Pages/Numbers!)
c. other professional work you need to share (sorry mr. recruiter but Word can't correctly render OO documents, you should blame them and give me the job even though my resume doesn't look good!)
Oh and I've tried to make things work. R or any number of statistical packages makes the Excel data analysis toolpack look like a joke. But providing the professor with a completely new format for your regression outputs is not good for your grade. He's familiar with the M$ way, and will only get annoyed you couldn't produce output in his predesired format. Even if Excel can't look at colinearity or autocorrelation or any other of a number of things you really might want to look at.
(All these are real examples from the past year when I switched to Mac. I ended up having to buy MS Office for Mac after quite a bit of headache.)
Yeah but there's a LOT that goes under that carbon fiber shell. A shell alone is useless.
You can build a kit car out of an old pontiac that doesn't go fast but doesn't look nice, or you can build it out of something with balls like a Corvette or Porsche that won't do the same in time trials as a Lamborghini, but it sure will go fast.
Comments like this make me laugh because we are a long way from a star trek style replicator that can just make a car appear. Best case scenario now is that if you have one of these expensive machines, and an expensive aluminum milling machine, you could make all the parts you'd need for a Lamborghini. But you'd still need to assemble the thing and it would still cost you an arm and a leg in raw materials.
Maybe at some point 3d printers like this will come with a robot that can assemble multiple parts. But every part you 3d print has to be attached to something else, you can't just have it print something in thin air.
Yes but who will install the parts?
Today you can go online and order after market parts from a company specializing in making replacement parts. But if you need to go to the dealership to get your car serviced it won't help because they'll still use genuine parts. Servicing yourself is still an issue unless you are a gear head
As someone with a lot of friends visiting (who would like to use my 5Ghz network)
The iPhone didn't support 5Ghz till the iPhone 5.
Samsung only started supporting 5Ghz a year and a half ago.
Any friends with an earlier phone, or another model (e.g. HTC) tends to be unable to get onto my network.
Laptops are hit or miss. It appears quite a few older laptops have 5Ghz but then a friends new netbook won't.
Lack of penetration is a GOOD thing.
In my apartment building, on the 2.4Ghz range, I get maybe 100 different wifi networks, including the coffeeshop down the street.
When I switched to 5 Ghz only, there were many fewer networks (and much less interference). Sure some of that is because so many people run 2.4 Ghz. But even if they did, I wouldn't see nearly as much interference.
Although I do hope Coffee Company doesn't switch to 5 Ghz. It's nice to steal their wifi when mine goes out.
Unless this layers carbon fibers + resin + hardener making the epoxy bond immediately
Actually it does. Check out the video on the website:
Try RTFA and go to the website http://markforged.com/
You can see a video of the machine in action. It appears that it lays down strips of carbon fiber... Not sure the exact mechanism, the quality, or anything like that, but the machine is printing SOMETHING.
For many many years it's been possible to buy parts that allow you to change a car to look like your favorite super car. Just do a quick google for "Kit Car." $10k + an appropriate body to put the kit on will allow you to have your very own knock off.
However, just because you CAN get parts that look like a lambo doesn't mean people run out of their way to get one. I suspect it will be the same. After you pay $10k to print up a Gallardo shell, you still need to install the thing. Which takes time and skill to get right.
And even then, people who know what a real supercar looks like will be able to tell that your knock off isn't real. Just like, despite the fact that you can get a perfectly good Louis Vuitton fake from China, people still buy the real thing.
So it's a non issue. Even if you could print one the labor involved (and cost of raw materials) wouldn't mean you could just "print a gallardo."
What IS interesting is if you would like to customize your car, you will be able to do things you could never do before.
Citation for the kit car thing you say? Sure.
Citation: http://www.kitcarlist.com/lamb...