Not quite, but I had $9,500 in available credit on one card when I left college (with a balance of $3,200 that took awhile to pay off, ugg).
I must say that I wish I only had $500 or so in credit at that time (I was young and stupid) so I couldn't have made the choices I made but that's blaming someone else for my failings.
Assuming the hole is filling at a decent speed (not too fast to drown you or too slow to exhaust you), you could just tread water until the water level lifts you to the top of the hole...
I had a copy of Vista Ultimate which crashed I.E., firefox, chessbase, Visual Studio 2003/5/8 and 90% of my games randomly within 10 seconds - 5 minutes of starting them. I never got the printer driver to work.
While I find your analogy a cludgy way to explain probability, I realized back in high school that D&D did give me a significantly better understanding of statistics than many of my peers who didn't play.
Actually I find a decent solution is to just emulate winXP in VMWare and replace my backup image weekly. I also keep an image of a clean install available if there's something I miss that corrupted my backup. I only use the emulator for my web browsing, but due to the speed of my current hardware, considering moving all my activities into it (alternatively I could just start ghosting my install weekly and avoid the performance hit of the virtual machine).
Re: wanting Stuff
1. I don't want less, but I want fewer material goods. Services such as chess/tennis tournaments or related services I still pay for and the material goods are made up for by Grandma and Mom buying my kids tons of toys (more than we can clean up at night).
Re: billboards
2. There is a billboard on I380 that alternates advertising with a daily joke. I pay attention to that one every time I drive past. I think mixing your ad in with desired content is a great way to get people to pay attention.
What is this VCR you speak of? I use DVR nowadays. I tell it that I like Fringe, Sanctuary and Heroes and it records every instance of those shows it can. I don't have to swap out tapes or manually program the VCR in between each show. If you want to be a real geek, you can do this with your computer rather than purchasing something that JFW.
One caveat: if the research which cures aids is discovered due to experiments run while attempting to cure cancer, then the grant-provider should get that research.
If however, you just notice a strange side-effect of a drug while researching cancer and on your own time dig into it more thoroughly... That is a bit fuzzy, but I think you probably deserve to keep your finding.
The other thing a Fair or Flat Tax has going is that they are easily understandable by everyone. No more loopholes, if you make $1000 and the Flat tax is 15% then you lose $150 of it to the government whether you are rich, poor or in between. A Fair/Sales tax in my mind is even better since you can save all the money you want, but unless watching interest accumulate floats your boat, the rich will spend more (and save more) and thus be taxed proportionally more.
Study confirms that people are delusional.
summary: A study has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front ends of automobiles...
I never would have suspected that it was first a film. I was quite impressed when I read Neverwhere and always thought a well done movie would be neigh unto impossible. I shall have to track down the dvd.
I hate to break it to you buy the Jets/Patriots played last night. =)
Oh yes, if you don't get directTV and the NFL network, you weren't allowed to watch.
I had a similar internship JScript/ASP back in 2002 but they paid me $18/hour in Iowa. I got a full time job and made the transition to ASP/.Net then moved to our engineering department to write device drivers. Our Interns now make $16/hour if they are juniors or seniors, and $14/hour otherwise.
Back when I was an applications programmer in IT, I was dedicated to creating apps for the Marketing department. This had an ancillary benefit of also making me responsible for maintaining our public web site and redesigning it to be "solution centric". I made some good tools like a product finder and comparison tool, and there are some pages out there that wasted days of my life.
After about a year of this, they decided against my and 2 other IT department employees advice to hire an SEO. We had a web tracking tool, but we now had to embedd 1x1 pixels + javascript images on every page so we could track how many users were using our site (we already had these metrics, but the SEO collated them in a prettier fashion); The best part about this was that the data was stored on their system and requires a yearly fee to use. After that we had to load up our pages with tons of misleading meta tags. Next we were encouraged to redesign our site to make it "solution-centric" (yes, we paid to be told to do this hokey redesign despite Marketing already deciding to do this; I still don't understand what's wrong with just advertising your products when your external app group has been decimated). Finally, they told us to buy paid search ads from google (about the only thing I agreed with).
In general we went from about 5th to 4rd on most search terms on the search engines we cared about (Google, MSN, Yahoo). I will third the opinion that SEOs are snake oil salesmen.
An amusing aside... After I left the group, they reviewed most of our pages and made suggestions on how to rework them (mostly the content which is in Marketing's domain) but they started trying to tell IT how the pages should be coded, going so far as to say that well-formed HTML is bad. That day, after another inane conference call; three of us left work at 3PM and spent the rest of the day drinking.
This is off topic, but thank you for using all "intents" and purposes correctly. I have seen an abundance of grammatical errors lately.
I see no reason why Google won't be able to market this data. I am curious as to whether their data is better in countries w/o public healthcare.
I actually prefer Anthem. The fact that it gets to the point faster allows me to push it off on interested people much more easily than the 3000 page Atlas Shrugged. American Libertarians believe in both economic and personal liberty, hence the root of the word.
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Not quite, but I had $9,500 in available credit on one card when I left college (with a balance of $3,200 that took awhile to pay off, ugg). I must say that I wish I only had $500 or so in credit at that time (I was young and stupid) so I couldn't have made the choices I made but that's blaming someone else for my failings.
Assuming the hole is filling at a decent speed (not too fast to drown you or too slow to exhaust you), you could just tread water until the water level lifts you to the top of the hole...
I had a copy of Vista Ultimate which crashed I.E., firefox, chessbase, Visual Studio 2003/5/8 and 90% of my games randomly within 10 seconds - 5 minutes of starting them. I never got the printer driver to work.
More pertinent (from my point of view) is do the super tasty convenient store cappuccinos have the same benefit?
While I find your analogy a cludgy way to explain probability, I realized back in high school that D&D did give me a significantly better understanding of statistics than many of my peers who didn't play.
It might be my FF settings, but espn.com is basically a IE only site.
In Soviet Russia, the UAVs program you!
(Apologies, but if you make a "new xxx overlord" joke you're asking for the Soviet Russia variant.)
Actually I find a decent solution is to just emulate winXP in VMWare and replace my backup image weekly. I also keep an image of a clean install available if there's something I miss that corrupted my backup. I only use the emulator for my web browsing, but due to the speed of my current hardware, considering moving all my activities into it (alternatively I could just start ghosting my install weekly and avoid the performance hit of the virtual machine).
2 things
Re: wanting Stuff
1. I don't want less, but I want fewer material goods. Services such as chess/tennis tournaments or related services I still pay for and the material goods are made up for by Grandma and Mom buying my kids tons of toys (more than we can clean up at night).
Re: billboards
2. There is a billboard on I380 that alternates advertising with a daily joke. I pay attention to that one every time I drive past. I think mixing your ad in with desired content is a great way to get people to pay attention.
I hate to admit it, but that is brilliant.
What is this VCR you speak of? I use DVR nowadays. I tell it that I like Fringe, Sanctuary and Heroes and it records every instance of those shows it can. I don't have to swap out tapes or manually program the VCR in between each show. If you want to be a real geek, you can do this with your computer rather than purchasing something that JFW.
It costs me approximately $20 for a box of four books of checks. I also do not have the online convince fee. Ergo, no checks for me.
One caveat: if the research which cures aids is discovered due to experiments run while attempting to cure cancer, then the grant-provider should get that research. If however, you just notice a strange side-effect of a drug while researching cancer and on your own time dig into it more thoroughly... That is a bit fuzzy, but I think you probably deserve to keep your finding.
The other thing a Fair or Flat Tax has going is that they are easily understandable by everyone. No more loopholes, if you make $1000 and the Flat tax is 15% then you lose $150 of it to the government whether you are rich, poor or in between. A Fair/Sales tax in my mind is even better since you can save all the money you want, but unless watching interest accumulate floats your boat, the rich will spend more (and save more) and thus be taxed proportionally more.
Study confirms that people are delusional. summary: A study has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front ends of automobiles...
Formatting, FTL.
I never would have suspected that it was first a film. I was quite impressed when I read Neverwhere and always thought a well done movie would be neigh unto impossible. I shall have to track down the dvd.
I hate to break it to you buy the Jets/Patriots played last night. =) Oh yes, if you don't get directTV and the NFL network, you weren't allowed to watch.
I had a similar internship JScript/ASP back in 2002 but they paid me $18/hour in Iowa. I got a full time job and made the transition to ASP/.Net then moved to our engineering department to write device drivers. Our Interns now make $16/hour if they are juniors or seniors, and $14/hour otherwise.
Back when I was an applications programmer in IT, I was dedicated to creating apps for the Marketing department. This had an ancillary benefit of also making me responsible for maintaining our public web site and redesigning it to be "solution centric". I made some good tools like a product finder and comparison tool, and there are some pages out there that wasted days of my life.
After about a year of this, they decided against my and 2 other IT department employees advice to hire an SEO. We had a web tracking tool, but we now had to embedd 1x1 pixels + javascript images on every page so we could track how many users were using our site (we already had these metrics, but the SEO collated them in a prettier fashion); The best part about this was that the data was stored on their system and requires a yearly fee to use. After that we had to load up our pages with tons of misleading meta tags. Next we were encouraged to redesign our site to make it "solution-centric" (yes, we paid to be told to do this hokey redesign despite Marketing already deciding to do this; I still don't understand what's wrong with just advertising your products when your external app group has been decimated). Finally, they told us to buy paid search ads from google (about the only thing I agreed with).
In general we went from about 5th to 4rd on most search terms on the search engines we cared about (Google, MSN, Yahoo). I will third the opinion that SEOs are snake oil salesmen.
An amusing aside... After I left the group, they reviewed most of our pages and made suggestions on how to rework them (mostly the content which is in Marketing's domain) but they started trying to tell IT how the pages should be coded, going so far as to say that well-formed HTML is bad. That day, after another inane conference call; three of us left work at 3PM and spent the rest of the day drinking.
Empirical evidence of people being this stupid does nothing but depress me.
This is off topic, but thank you for using all "intents" and purposes correctly. I have seen an abundance of grammatical errors lately. I see no reason why Google won't be able to market this data. I am curious as to whether their data is better in countries w/o public healthcare.
I actually prefer Anthem. The fact that it gets to the point faster allows me to push it off on interested people much more easily than the 3000 page Atlas Shrugged. American Libertarians believe in both economic and personal liberty, hence the root of the word.
Re Gmail being beta, does this mean when it's 'finished' it will be Alpha mail?
No, that would be Omega Mail.
I believe you forgot that this is slashdot....