While I appreciate good sarcasm, there are plenty of livable cities with lower rents. Sure, everyone wants to live in NYC, but I moved away because of the cost of living.
That sounds like London. We have a similar situation in cities like DC and New York and the bay area. But there are plenty of cities with affordable housing.
Well, not everyone can be a Mark Twain, but his idea was good.
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But why on Earth would I want my media box built into my television, so that following the curve of technological advancement means pitching the entire huge TV into the waste stream?
You don't pitch it - you use the built-in media box until it becomes obsolete, and then you hook up an external box and use it like a dumb TV. At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
No, I meant that both Connecticut and Texas pay more than they take, but if you are from Connecticut this imbalance is much larger than if you are from Texas. I think it's like $6000 per capita in Connecticut and in the $2000 range for a Texan.
My boss isn't stupid. She buys me a MATLAB and JMP license, and the design guys get CAD licenses. We are swimming in specialized software that she does not buy for herself. She only uses Excel because someone up the chain went with a site license for MS Office. If they hadn't made that decision, she'd use whatever made the next-best list maker (I believe she used Quatro Pro prior to our site license). We also use the abysmal Sharepoint system as a glorified shared drive, just because it is there.
I think I agree with you, but we are kind of talking past one another. Lawsuits like the spilled coffee episode are indeed ludicrous. But it would be just as ludicrous if a local coffee shop owner was sued rather than McDonalds. However, this is a separate issue from what I am talking about. I'm all for ways to reduce frivolous or ridiculous lawsuits in general. However, if you step back from product liability for a moment you can see that there are other types of completely reasonable lawsuits.
For instance, let's say I buy a hunk of land and put a gas station on it. I screw up and leak gas all over the place and it screws up the ground water. You, my neighbor, sue my gas station for screwing up your drinking water. I lose the case, and my gas station has to go bankrupt. Hell, maybe you even "win" my polluted gas station. But my house, my car, and any other assets I have are completely safe, since I took advantage of the government concept of the corporation.
If I work for 8 hours and make enough money to purchase a microwave oven, that doesn't make me more rich than someone 100 years ago who could work their entire life and not purchase a microwave oven because they didn't exist.
It certainly gives you a higher standard of living. Perhaps a microwave isn't the best example, but a clothes washer sure is. You get to spend the hour that you would have been scrubbing clothes doing anything else you want. You are 1/24 richer every day that you would have done laundry.
All that matters is if I work 8 hours, I can purchase 8 hours of work from someone else.
Why in the world should I care how much work went into something?
I can purchase a pocket calculator for $5 from a Walmart check-out line, but that doesn't suddenly make me "rich" because a computer that strong 30 years ago was worth millions of dollars.
As an engineer, I have to disagree. When I watch the NASA engineers in newsreels from the 50s yanking away on their slide rules, I realize I never would have gone into this occupation at all. The amount of time that I save myself each year by using Excel or MATLAB versus hand calculations is just staggering.
You claim that "time is money", but you ascribe no value to the extra time you are getting from these conveniences.
I love array functions. I mean, I hate them, but not as much as I hate writing VBA! I feel like MS could really make Excel more powerful if they improved the editing/editing/debugging of array functions. Maybe more people would use them if they were easier to construct.
I don't think most people say Calc is just as good as Excel - they say that it is good enough for most people. And that is probably true. I think my boss uses excel for simple formulas and for lists. I use Excel for anything not quite worthy of a Matlab script, so OpenOffice doesn't quite measure up for me but should work fine for my boss.
While both Connecticut and Texas are relatively rich states and contribute more to the federal treasury than they take, people in Connecticut contribute about 3x as much toward the treasury compared with Texans... Only Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey pay more into the treasury per capita versus what they take out. That's part of the reason the people in NJ were so upset when congress initially balked at Sandy relief.
No, it isn't. First of all, the fine for offering no health care whatsoever is $2000. If the employer offers crappy healthcare and employees instead elect for their own plan from the new exchanges, then the employer is fined $3000 per employee who opts for the exchange plan. You can get weak coverage for around $600/worker that would satisfy the $2000 fine. If a bunch of your workers start to opt for exchange plans, then you might need to consider upping your plan to avoid the $3000 penalty.
The AC explained it well. If I have a system on my deck and a system in my family room and a system in my dining room/kitchen, I'd like to stream to all 3 at once during, say, a party. With Airplay or Sonos, this works perfectly. With UPnP and other streaming solutions, the speakers get out of sync and you'd be surprised how bad that sounds. Like you are in an old echoey stadium.
I have only been able to find two systems that play synchronous music, both proprietary. The first is Airplay and the second is Sonos. Everything else that I've tried plays out-of-sync to multiple speakers. Airplay has been cracked and there are Android clients for it. Airport Express wall warts are under $100, so I have gone that route for now. I am excited by the potential here with an open competitor. I believe some people have experimented with making UPnP synchronous, but have not run into any practical implementations.
It's not the quantity, it's the behavior. I use so many tabs that I feel the need to run "Tree Style Tabs" (on Chrome there used to be a similar built-in, though hidden, feature). Every few days, Firefox bloats to such a large footprint that a quit takes about 10 minutes.
I could be using a "metric ton of bad addons". But the fact is, without the addons I'd be using Chrome. So whether it is Firefox's fault or not, Mozilla gets the blame.
I don't have a problem on Windows, but on the Mac it definitely leaks. Not only that, once it has leaked, it takes perhaps 10 minutes to shut down when you've decided to quit it. It could be the plugins or the extensions - but I don't really care because those are the only reason I use Firefox, so I'm not going to disable them.
Right, but when people sue McDonald's for spilling hot coffee on themselves, they sue McDonald's Corporation and not the lady who sold them the coffee or Donald Thomson.
Note that I'm not endorsing that kind of nonsense. I agree that warning labels on hair dryers saying not to use them in the tub goes too far. Every plastic bag I've ever gotten says "not a toy" or some such nonsense on it. Except my expensive Ziplock sandwich bags... what the hell?
Same here. It can get so large and complicated in memory that it takes 10 minutes to quit. This seems to be mostly limited to the Mac version. I'm a slave to vertical tabs, though, so I haven't used Chrome since they abandoned that feature.
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While I appreciate good sarcasm, there are plenty of livable cities with lower rents. Sure, everyone wants to live in NYC, but I moved away because of the cost of living.
That sounds like London. We have a similar situation in cities like DC and New York and the bay area. But there are plenty of cities with affordable housing.
Even if there weren't already a "th" character, most texters of yore used "t" to mean "the" and it was very readable.
T quick brown fox jumps over t lazy dog.
My fault... I read it and I was still too dense to get your joke :)
It's still going to be lower priced than a stand-alone box.
They may be willing to swallow the development costs to have a competitive advantage against a wall full of identical-looking TVs at Walmart.
Well, not everyone can be a Mark Twain, but his idea was good.
But why on Earth would I want my media box built into my television, so that following the curve of technological advancement means pitching the entire huge TV into the waste stream?
You don't pitch it - you use the built-in media box until it becomes obsolete, and then you hook up an external box and use it like a dumb TV. At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
LOL, that would be a trick, wouldn't it?
No, I meant that both Connecticut and Texas pay more than they take, but if you are from Connecticut this imbalance is much larger than if you are from Texas. I think it's like $6000 per capita in Connecticut and in the $2000 range for a Texan.
My boss isn't stupid. She buys me a MATLAB and JMP license, and the design guys get CAD licenses. We are swimming in specialized software that she does not buy for herself. She only uses Excel because someone up the chain went with a site license for MS Office. If they hadn't made that decision, she'd use whatever made the next-best list maker (I believe she used Quatro Pro prior to our site license). We also use the abysmal Sharepoint system as a glorified shared drive, just because it is there.
I think I agree with you, but we are kind of talking past one another. Lawsuits like the spilled coffee episode are indeed ludicrous. But it would be just as ludicrous if a local coffee shop owner was sued rather than McDonalds. However, this is a separate issue from what I am talking about. I'm all for ways to reduce frivolous or ridiculous lawsuits in general. However, if you step back from product liability for a moment you can see that there are other types of completely reasonable lawsuits.
For instance, let's say I buy a hunk of land and put a gas station on it. I screw up and leak gas all over the place and it screws up the ground water. You, my neighbor, sue my gas station for screwing up your drinking water. I lose the case, and my gas station has to go bankrupt. Hell, maybe you even "win" my polluted gas station. But my house, my car, and any other assets I have are completely safe, since I took advantage of the government concept of the corporation.
If I work for 8 hours and make enough money to purchase a microwave oven, that doesn't make me more rich than someone 100 years ago who could work their entire life and not purchase a microwave oven because they didn't exist.
It certainly gives you a higher standard of living. Perhaps a microwave isn't the best example, but a clothes washer sure is. You get to spend the hour that you would have been scrubbing clothes doing anything else you want. You are 1/24 richer every day that you would have done laundry.
All that matters is if I work 8 hours, I can purchase 8 hours of work from someone else.
Why in the world should I care how much work went into something?
I can purchase a pocket calculator for $5 from a Walmart check-out line, but that doesn't suddenly make me "rich" because a computer that strong 30 years ago was worth millions of dollars.
As an engineer, I have to disagree. When I watch the NASA engineers in newsreels from the 50s yanking away on their slide rules, I realize I never would have gone into this occupation at all. The amount of time that I save myself each year by using Excel or MATLAB versus hand calculations is just staggering.
You claim that "time is money", but you ascribe no value to the extra time you are getting from these conveniences.
I love array functions. I mean, I hate them, but not as much as I hate writing VBA! I feel like MS could really make Excel more powerful if they improved the editing/editing/debugging of array functions. Maybe more people would use them if they were easier to construct.
I don't think most people say Calc is just as good as Excel - they say that it is good enough for most people. And that is probably true. I think my boss uses excel for simple formulas and for lists. I use Excel for anything not quite worthy of a Matlab script, so OpenOffice doesn't quite measure up for me but should work fine for my boss.
While both Connecticut and Texas are relatively rich states and contribute more to the federal treasury than they take, people in Connecticut contribute about 3x as much toward the treasury compared with Texans... Only Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey pay more into the treasury per capita versus what they take out. That's part of the reason the people in NJ were so upset when congress initially balked at Sandy relief.
Is it possible to replace the entertainment system?
It is, but it would probably exceed the value of the 15-year-old car!
Oh boy, the unintended incentives!
No, it isn't. First of all, the fine for offering no health care whatsoever is $2000. If the employer offers crappy healthcare and employees instead elect for their own plan from the new exchanges, then the employer is fined $3000 per employee who opts for the exchange plan. You can get weak coverage for around $600/worker that would satisfy the $2000 fine. If a bunch of your workers start to opt for exchange plans, then you might need to consider upping your plan to avoid the $3000 penalty.
The AC explained it well. If I have a system on my deck and a system in my family room and a system in my dining room/kitchen, I'd like to stream to all 3 at once during, say, a party. With Airplay or Sonos, this works perfectly. With UPnP and other streaming solutions, the speakers get out of sync and you'd be surprised how bad that sounds. Like you are in an old echoey stadium.
I have only been able to find two systems that play synchronous music, both proprietary. The first is Airplay and the second is Sonos. Everything else that I've tried plays out-of-sync to multiple speakers. Airplay has been cracked and there are Android clients for it. Airport Express wall warts are under $100, so I have gone that route for now. I am excited by the potential here with an open competitor. I believe some people have experimented with making UPnP synchronous, but have not run into any practical implementations.
It's not the quantity, it's the behavior. I use so many tabs that I feel the need to run "Tree Style Tabs" (on Chrome there used to be a similar built-in, though hidden, feature). Every few days, Firefox bloats to such a large footprint that a quit takes about 10 minutes.
I could be using a "metric ton of bad addons". But the fact is, without the addons I'd be using Chrome. So whether it is Firefox's fault or not, Mozilla gets the blame.
The "making phone calls" part of my phone is the least interesting aspect.
I hate that backspace thing, too. They aped it from IE.
I don't have a problem on Windows, but on the Mac it definitely leaks. Not only that, once it has leaked, it takes perhaps 10 minutes to shut down when you've decided to quit it. It could be the plugins or the extensions - but I don't really care because those are the only reason I use Firefox, so I'm not going to disable them.
Right, but when people sue McDonald's for spilling hot coffee on themselves, they sue McDonald's Corporation and not the lady who sold them the coffee or Donald Thomson.
Note that I'm not endorsing that kind of nonsense. I agree that warning labels on hair dryers saying not to use them in the tub goes too far. Every plastic bag I've ever gotten says "not a toy" or some such nonsense on it. Except my expensive Ziplock sandwich bags... what the hell?
Same here. It can get so large and complicated in memory that it takes 10 minutes to quit. This seems to be mostly limited to the Mac version. I'm a slave to vertical tabs, though, so I haven't used Chrome since they abandoned that feature.