True Story.
The day I joined my previous job (as a junior test enginerr) I found an issue on the software I was working on. I filed a ticket requesting a change. It got assigned to person X who was working in the US office. Person X later quit, moved to India and then joined our Indian operations.I moved into the development team and worked on the same software for 2 years without fixing that issue. I quit my company later after 5 years and on the day I quit, apparently the tracking tool sent out emails to all people (and their managers) including person X to close out their issues.
I can only imagine the look on his face on having to work on an issue exactly 5 years and 1 month old.
I went there after hours. And since we were with someone who rang the opening bell that day, had a small party on the floor
So I am not sure what it would be like during trading hours. But I talked to a few people who worked there and they all said that the place was nothing like it was years ago (or even like what it was a year ago). The only poeple who are left there are the specialist traders, most of the big players had moved out. And from reading the article, it appears that the room I was in was the blue room and the extended blue room was already half closed in late August (I am not sure which room it was, but I remember the paint was blue).
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It is not that trivial a case.
I visited the trading floor (of which not much exists now -compared to past) in August. The desktops the traders used were Windows XP - Linux in an equal split. Presumably the back-end servers is what they are talking about here which according to the story was Unix. So it is a case where Microsoft had managed to get a foothold in a Unix only shop in the desktop and failed to leverage their monopoly power to capture the Server market.
It's pure economics After a few years working in the tech industry I finally went and joined a B School. So i now feel competent to comment about this:-)
There is a possible reason why Boston might decide to avoid scalping in certain forms.Basically to avoid monopolies
Assume that there are 50,000 seats in the stadium and that the tickets are being sold at $10. The total revenue is then 500,000. Also assume that this $10 is exactly what would result when free market conditions prevail.
But what happens when a scalper can buy ALL of those tickets? Scalper pays 500,000 and arbitrarily sets a price of $1000 for each ticket. There would still be 1000 people or so who still can buy tickets. So the scalper makes a profit of 1000 * 1000 -500,000 = 500,000 dollars. But the society bears a "deadweight" loss on this monopoly situation since the stadium has now just 1000 people!!
What's happening is that in an "inelastic market" (one where some people will buy tickets at any cost), it is profitable to act like a monopoly rather than as in a free market and which is what some of these scalpers end up doing
In the specific case it might not be true, the $10 prices may be below the market average because the teams have other ways (merchandise etc.) to get this money back from the fans.
Try telling them that a cigarette is about 100 mm.
But a cigarette is not 100 mm. A king size filter cigarette is 84 mm . There are 100mm and 120mm cigaretters available, but they are usually in slims/thins and anorexic widths and with target market (mostly) as women.
I would'nt know about the syndrome you are talking about, but as a smoker, I can assure you that the concentration part of it is temporary. In the beginning, you smoke a cigarette and then you can concentrate well for like 3 hours. Later it becomes 2 hours and then 1.A cigarette on the average lasts about 6-7 minutes... After a point of time it becomes so that you are not concentrating if you are not smoking. Atleast this was the case with me. I did get a good 3-4 years out of it though.
A good control experiment for this would be a person who only smokes when he needs to concentrate and never smokes due to cravings, but I am not sure we can find such a person.
Forget that. This ruling also means that if you back-up your hard-disk online (without any MP3's on you HDD, just personal file), the back-up company can use your data for whatever they feel like. After all you "distributed" the data to them without any extra restrictions placed.
Stupid judge.
There is a difference though.
As soon as Islamists come to power, they tend to declare their countries as Islamic republics and THEN attack people based on religion. Iran, Afghanistan all did that.
The only exception was the attack in Norway, in which case it was a person acting out, rather than an organized cult.
Bin Laden and his group of International terrorists on the other hand should not be treated as representing Islam, they are just a very violent kind. Maybe you can look at them like early day Mormons or something.
Those can not replace the complex ecosystem in the rain forests. Yes, but we do not need complex ecosystems to produce Oxygen from C02. Any Carbon based life form which obtains most of the carbon from C02 will do. Softwood does fine.
I am not saying that creating paper does not require energy (which in turn produces C02), that is a different point altogether. Your argument is tangential to the discussion.
You know, if you had posted this as a logged in user, rather than as an AC, the problem would have fixed itself./. will rollback your moderations when you comment on the same article
Let me rephrase what you said
Leaning tower of Pisa will fall -- It has always been falling.It's mans arrogance to presume that the tower will remain stable if it were not for our interference. Hence we should not try and stabilize the tower.
Or , I eat food from a tree in my garden. I know that the tree will die. Hence I will cut it today!!!
Actually the grandparent is correct in a way.You could have responded with reason rather than opinion
When the lobbyists decide public policy it is still democracy as long it does not turn into an oligarchy. It is no longer a representative democracy, but one which is weighted by lobbying / money power.
You would not get mush of sodium, water and silicon. What you most probably have is a mixture of sodium silicates and sodium hydroxide. pass chlorine through this and then you probably can dump it in the sea without too many problems (NaCl+ silicon =sand (or waterglass) +salt?). Unless you want to sell the sodium hyroxide, it is a quite useful chemical.
approximately, 1 glass of alcohol requires 3 glasses of water to neutralise it. So assuming 5% alcohol in Beer, it should actually be equivalent to about 75% water (accounting for some malt sediments etc.)
I do have mod points now, but I will reply rather than mod because you brinng up a lot of points which are semi-plausible. your posting history does not indicate that you are a troll though your username is funny:-)
What you seem to be saying is this
1. paparazzis do sutff like this - not wrong in your opinion
2. paparazzis are journalists, like Maureen. So wha t maureen did is also right
3 somebody DoSed Sys-con - Wrong in your opinion
4. In you opinion this somebody is linux zealots -so linux community must be wrong
What is wrong with your arguement is this
1) Paparazzis are unethical if not illegal always. Even a paparazzi would be wrong if they photographed some public figure's mother in the privacy of their homes . In a public space, it might just be unethical
2) paparazzis are not full journalists in that they do not follow the code of conduct for journalists. Associations in most countries have a written document for this
3)"Somebody DoS'ed Sys-con" now why do you believe this? I was able to read the article yesterday about maureen getting the axe. Possibly no body ever did a DDost. It might just have been a slashdotting followed by tons of blogs linking to them
4)Even if somebody did a DDoS that itself might be a diversionary tactic by SCOx - you cannot judge before you know the details
No, you can get "almost" barebones mobos. Just go and get a server motherboard. They usually don't have much integrated on them (maybe some server mgmt/ IPMI stuff) and possibly a network card. Some motherboards have a video card which you can disable
Intel has a few or you can get some from boradcom/serverworks.
Grow up. This boy was a criminal.
This kid caused a loss of revenue by diluting the "value" of the movie.
Should this not be a Civil offense? Now, why do they treat him like a thief and and a "criminal" ?
Out of interest, exactly how would night vision goggles help the police to find murderers? indeed The only use for night vision goggles i can think of is while chasing someone down a very dark alley of some kind, during which, For them to be useful, the perp involved would also be blind without them.
Tons of uses really eg. cop walking into any sort of dark rooms (hostage situation maybe?) , rescue of kids lost in some deserted area in the night....
Oh yes, that's very insightful: comparing rape, burglary, and arsen to copyright infringement.
Plural of arse is arses, not arsen (Boxes, not boxen) . Anyway why would you want to compare a bunch of bottoms to copyright infringement?
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True Story.
The day I joined my previous job (as a junior test enginerr) I found an issue on the software I was working on. I filed a ticket requesting a change. It got assigned to person X who was working in the US office. Person X later quit, moved to India and then joined our Indian operations.I moved into the development team and worked on the same software for 2 years without fixing that issue. I quit my company later after 5 years and on the day I quit, apparently the tracking tool sent out emails to all people (and their managers) including person X to close out their issues.
I can only imagine the look on his face on having to work on an issue exactly 5 years and 1 month old.
I went there after hours. And since we were with someone who rang the opening bell that day, had a small party on the floor
So I am not sure what it would be like during trading hours. But I talked to a few people who worked there and they all said that the place was nothing like it was years ago (or even like what it was a year ago). The only poeple who are left there are the specialist traders, most of the big players had moved out. And from reading the article, it appears that the room I was in was the blue room and the extended blue room was already half closed in late August (I am not sure which room it was, but I remember the paint was blue).
It is not that trivial a case.
I visited the trading floor (of which not much exists now -compared to past) in August. The desktops the traders used were Windows XP - Linux in an equal split. Presumably the back-end servers is what they are talking about here which according to the story was Unix. So it is a case where Microsoft had managed to get a foothold in a Unix only shop in the desktop and failed to leverage their monopoly power to capture the Server market.
There is a possible reason why Boston might decide to avoid scalping in certain forms.Basically to avoid monopolies
Assume that there are 50,000 seats in the stadium and that the tickets are being sold at $10. The total revenue is then 500,000. Also assume that this $10 is exactly what would result when free market conditions prevail.
But what happens when a scalper can buy ALL of those tickets? Scalper pays 500,000 and arbitrarily sets a price of $1000 for each ticket. There would still be 1000 people or so who still can buy tickets. So the scalper makes a profit of 1000 * 1000 -500,000 = 500,000 dollars. But the society bears a "deadweight" loss on this monopoly situation since the stadium has now just 1000 people!!
What's happening is that in an "inelastic market" (one where some people will buy tickets at any cost), it is profitable to act like a monopoly rather than as in a free market and which is what some of these scalpers end up doing
In the specific case it might not be true, the $10 prices may be below the market average because the teams have other ways (merchandise etc.) to get this money back from the fans.
But a cigarette is not 100 mm. A king size filter cigarette is 84 mm . There are 100mm and 120mm cigaretters available, but they are usually in slims/thins and anorexic widths and with target market (mostly) as women.
But spcied wine is served clod.
I would'nt know about the syndrome you are talking about, but as a smoker, I can assure you that the concentration part of it is temporary. In the beginning, you smoke a cigarette and then you can concentrate well for like 3 hours. Later it becomes 2 hours and then 1.A cigarette on the average lasts about 6-7 minutes... After a point of time it becomes so that you are not concentrating if you are not smoking. Atleast this was the case with me. I did get a good 3-4 years out of it though. A good control experiment for this would be a person who only smokes when he needs to concentrate and never smokes due to cravings, but I am not sure we can find such a person.
Sorry that's already taken. And its not even a real country. That's the tag-line of Kerala tourism http://www.keralatourism.org/
http://www.gods-own-country.info/
Forget that. This ruling also means that if you back-up your hard-disk online (without any MP3's on you HDD, just personal file), the back-up company can use your data for whatever they feel like. After all you "distributed" the data to them without any extra restrictions placed. Stupid judge.
Indeed..
A better summary would have been "High testosterone allows people to read facial emotions better"
There is a difference though.
As soon as Islamists come to power, they tend to declare their countries as Islamic republics and THEN attack people based on religion. Iran, Afghanistan all did that. The only exception was the attack in Norway, in which case it was a person acting out, rather than an organized cult.
Bin Laden and his group of International terrorists on the other hand should not be treated as representing Islam, they are just a very violent kind. Maybe you can look at them like early day Mormons or something.
Yes, but we do not need complex ecosystems to produce Oxygen from C02. Any Carbon based life form which obtains most of the carbon from C02 will do. Softwood does fine. I am not saying that creating paper does not require energy (which in turn produces C02), that is a different point altogether. Your argument is tangential to the discussion.
This will be really interesting... The law would mean that a semi-deaf guy will have to remove his hearing aids while crossing the road!!
You know, if you had posted this as a logged in user, rather than as an AC, the problem would have fixed itself. /. will rollback your moderations when you comment on the same article
Let me rephrase what you said
Leaning tower of Pisa will fall -- It has always been falling.It's mans arrogance to presume that the tower will remain stable if it were not for our interference. Hence we should not try and stabilize the tower.
Or , I eat food from a tree in my garden. I know that the tree will die. Hence I will cut it today!!!
well, atleast the rewrite is not from the submitter... it came straight from the article...
Actually the grandparent is correct in a way.You could have responded with reason rather than opinion
When the lobbyists decide public policy it is still democracy as long it does not turn into an oligarchy. It is no longer a representative democracy, but one which is weighted by lobbying / money power.
gcc --pedantic?
You would not get mush of sodium, water and silicon. What you most probably have is a mixture of sodium silicates and sodium hydroxide. pass chlorine through this and then you probably can dump it in the sea without too many problems (NaCl+ silicon =sand (or waterglass) +salt?). Unless you want to sell the sodium hyroxide, it is a quite useful chemical.
approximately, 1 glass of alcohol requires 3 glasses of water to neutralise it. So assuming 5% alcohol in Beer, it should actually be equivalent to about 75% water (accounting for some malt sediments etc.)
better than a were-wulf of these i guess
Sorry could not resist
I do have mod points now, but I will reply rather than mod because you brinng up a lot of points which are semi-plausible. your posting history does not indicate that you are a troll though your username is funny :-)
What you seem to be saying is this
1. paparazzis do sutff like this - not wrong in your opinion
2. paparazzis are journalists, like Maureen. So wha t maureen did is also right
3 somebody DoSed Sys-con - Wrong in your opinion
4. In you opinion this somebody is linux zealots -so linux community must be wrong
What is wrong with your arguement is this
1) Paparazzis are unethical if not illegal always. Even a paparazzi would be wrong if they photographed some public figure's mother in the privacy of their homes . In a public space, it might just be unethical
2) paparazzis are not full journalists in that they do not follow the code of conduct for journalists. Associations in most countries have a written document for this
3)"Somebody DoS'ed Sys-con" now why do you believe this? I was able to read the article yesterday about maureen getting the axe. Possibly no body ever did a DDost. It might just have been a slashdotting followed by tons of blogs linking to them
4)Even if somebody did a DDoS that itself might be a diversionary tactic by SCOx - you cannot judge before you know the details
No, you can get "almost" barebones mobos. Just go and get a server motherboard. They usually don't have much integrated on them (maybe some server mgmt/ IPMI stuff) and possibly a network card. Some motherboards have a video card which you can disable
Intel has a few or you can get some from boradcom/serverworks.
Grow up. This boy was a criminal.
....
This kid caused a loss of revenue by diluting the "value" of the movie.
Should this not be a Civil offense? Now, why do they treat him like a thief and and a "criminal" ?
Out of interest, exactly how would night vision goggles help the police to find murderers? indeed The only use for night vision goggles i can think of is while chasing someone down a very dark alley of some kind, during which, For them to be useful, the perp involved would also be blind without them.
Tons of uses really eg. cop walking into any sort of dark rooms (hostage situation maybe?) , rescue of kids lost in some deserted area in the night
Oh yes, that's very insightful: comparing rape, burglary, and arsen to copyright infringement.
Plural of arse is arses, not arsen (Boxes, not boxen) .
Anyway why would you want to compare a bunch of bottoms to copyright infringement?