Most car companies have a discount scheme for employees. I recall walking into a Ford dealer (in the UK) and he said that most of his low mileage second hand cars came from Ford employees since they got a discount so they could afford to buy a new car every few years and the old one would be sold off through the network. I assume they do it as a cheap perk for their employees which as a side effect increases car sales and second hand sale throughput.
My car is 12 years old. I guess I should have gone to work as an Auto Assembly worker instead of being a Software Engineer.
Highly unlikely, a few years back I was doing some work for Volvo and in the parking lot there was a rather overwhelming share of Volvos. Sure, nobody expects you to sell or scrap an existing car that works well but somehow I don't think a Ford worker arriving in a new non-Ford car would get very well received by neither coworkers nor management, it's a pretty clear message you wouldn't want to eat your own dog food. That they could use the money for other things sure, but if they bought a car I'd say it was a very safe bet it'd be a Ford.
While visiting Detroit I was told that employees who owned competitors cars had to park in an overflow lot which was across the highway from the regular employee lot. There was a pedestrian bridge over the highway.
That being said, I have worked for a lot of places that won't use their own product.
If that thief had tried the same trick with a iPhone het'd probably have gotten away with it.
Iphones have serial numbers. If I were an iphone retailer I would have a record of all iphones that had come through my store, both ones that sold and ones that were supposed to be in stock.
However, we do need astronauts in space, if we, as a pecies, ever expects to survive for an appreciable amount of time.
Yup, because the Earth is going to be swallowed up by the sun sometime in the next couple of billion years.
If you didn't fund schools based on attendance, then how else would you do it? (and this is a serious question)
How about funding it based on how many school aged children are in the district? If the kids don't bother to show up, then the ones that do will receive more attention and better education.
The downside being that the ones who don't go to school will then became a drain on society that more than makes up for any extra benefits obtained from the better educated kids that did go to school. Now, if we could make them sign a waiver that says they agree to never accept any government handouts, ever, then maybe it would work.
So, then what happens is that people pay to not have ads. Then pretty soon, they will have ads on the premium service as well. Then people will get pissed and leave.
Well, it is true that we use 40% of our water for cooling energy plants, but that is kind of small in comparison with the fact that we use 10 million percent of our water, and growing by the second.
I guess the cloud is where you go when your business forgot its umbrella.
I disagree. You should only go to the cloud if you have an umbrella. In both the meteorological and business connotation.
And what happens when a drunk driver smashes into them? (or his communications are cut?)
Well, for one, a lot more people are affected, and for another thing, they are not going to be as concerned about the data as you would be if you hosted it yourself.
Yup, so is carpentry. I do woodworking as a hobby. Lots of people do welding as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay welders either. Lots of people write computer programs as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay computer programmers either. Lot's of people fly planes as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay pilots.
From memory Radiohead and NIN have both offered albums, available online where you can pay what you want for them, and both walked away with over $1million.
For a professionally produced album, I would imagine that the production costs are in the several hundreds of thousands of dollars and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the big name artists spend over $1 million producing an album.
That's what I always wondered about when they arrest guys for soliciting for prostitution when in fact they did not actually solicit a prostitute, but a police officer who had no intention of accepting money for sex. The intent to commit a crime may have been there, but a crime was not committed. Well, I guess the police officer technically committed a crime of false advertisement.
part of adolescence is about learning to make decisions and accept the consequences themselves.
That is true, but in this case, the consequences are pretty heavily borne out by the parents who told them to abstain from sexual relations, as well as the society that told them to do the same thing. If we were to completely leave the entire responsibility for their actions upon the youths, then certainly we would have no place to tell them what to do. Since we pay the cost, we get to make the rules.
That said, an AI capable of simulating a 14 year old girl? Hard to imagine they could even simulate a 5 year old successfully. This doesn't seem like a good use of a universities resources.
Yes, a 14 year old girl at what time of day and what day of the week and which week of the month? If you can show me a 14 year old girl that acts the same for more than 20 minutes, then I might believe they could come up with an AI for one.
Any and all matter can be used in games of chance. Luckily for Florida, physical laws don't have to obey civil laws or Florida would suddenly cease to exist.
Sounds like Supercuts. My wife worked there for a short period. If there was a shortage in the cash register they made the employees working there that night cover the difference. It had to be repaid immediately even though Supercuts didn't pay their paycheck for working that night until two weeks later.
It's good they solved it, though it's kind of funny the solution was to hire western pilots..
I'm amazed that fixed anything. I have frequent dealings with Koreans at home, at work and at Church and I can tell you that as far as the culture is concerned, an elder Korean gets first ranking, then younger Korean, then adolescent Koreans, then baby Koreans, and then just below that is an elderly Westerner with a PhD, a Nobel Peace Prize and a half dozen New York Times best sellers.
I just want to point out that 48 hours in a 777 is like 10 hours in a regional jet. In 48 hours, he may have performed maybe 5 takeoffs and landings since most of the time in a 777 is spent doing next to nothing.
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Most car companies have a discount scheme for employees. I recall walking into a Ford dealer (in the UK) and he said that most of his low mileage second hand cars came from Ford employees since they got a discount so they could afford to buy a new car every few years and the old one would be sold off through the network. I assume they do it as a cheap perk for their employees which as a side effect increases car sales and second hand sale throughput.
My car is 12 years old. I guess I should have gone to work as an Auto Assembly worker instead of being a Software Engineer.
Highly unlikely, a few years back I was doing some work for Volvo and in the parking lot there was a rather overwhelming share of Volvos. Sure, nobody expects you to sell or scrap an existing car that works well but somehow I don't think a Ford worker arriving in a new non-Ford car would get very well received by neither coworkers nor management, it's a pretty clear message you wouldn't want to eat your own dog food. That they could use the money for other things sure, but if they bought a car I'd say it was a very safe bet it'd be a Ford.
While visiting Detroit I was told that employees who owned competitors cars had to park in an overflow lot which was across the highway from the regular employee lot. There was a pedestrian bridge over the highway.
That being said, I have worked for a lot of places that won't use their own product.
If that thief had tried the same trick with a iPhone het'd probably have gotten away with it.
Iphones have serial numbers. If I were an iphone retailer I would have a record of all iphones that had come through my store, both ones that sold and ones that were supposed to be in stock.
However, we do need astronauts in space, if we, as a pecies, ever expects to survive for an appreciable amount of time.
Yup, because the Earth is going to be swallowed up by the sun sometime in the next couple of billion years.
If you didn't fund schools based on attendance, then how else would you do it? (and this is a serious question)
How about funding it based on how many school aged children are in the district? If the kids don't bother to show up, then the ones that do will receive more attention and better education.
The downside being that the ones who don't go to school will then became a drain on society that more than makes up for any extra benefits obtained from the better educated kids that did go to school. Now, if we could make them sign a waiver that says they agree to never accept any government handouts, ever, then maybe it would work.
So, then what happens is that people pay to not have ads. Then pretty soon, they will have ads on the premium service as well. Then people will get pissed and leave.
Well, it is true that we use 40% of our water for cooling energy plants, but that is kind of small in comparison with the fact that we use 10 million percent of our water, and growing by the second.
16x9... pass.
You holding out for 4:3?
256:81
Your data + Someone's cheap cloud service = You not having a damn clue when/where/if your data is replicated.
FTFY
I guess the cloud is where you go when your business forgot its umbrella.
I disagree. You should only go to the cloud if you have an umbrella. In both the meteorological and business connotation.
And what happens when a drunk driver smashes into them? (or his communications are cut?)
Well, for one, a lot more people are affected, and for another thing, they are not going to be as concerned about the data as you would be if you hosted it yourself.
Yup, so is carpentry. I do woodworking as a hobby. Lots of people do welding as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay welders either. Lots of people write computer programs as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay computer programmers either. Lot's of people fly planes as a hobby, so we shouldn't pay pilots.
From memory Radiohead and NIN have both offered albums, available online where you can pay what you want for them, and both walked away with over $1million.
For a professionally produced album, I would imagine that the production costs are in the several hundreds of thousands of dollars and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the big name artists spend over $1 million producing an album.
Kim Jong-Un once one a game of Connect Four...in three moves.
Pretty sneaky sis.
Or, equally likely, just the opposite.
No, the answer is don't try to pick up underage girls.
How do you know they are underage? If you ask, you are a suspicious person. If you don't ask, you are a suspicious person.
That's what I always wondered about when they arrest guys for soliciting for prostitution when in fact they did not actually solicit a prostitute, but a police officer who had no intention of accepting money for sex. The intent to commit a crime may have been there, but a crime was not committed. Well, I guess the police officer technically committed a crime of false advertisement.
part of adolescence is about learning to make decisions and accept the consequences themselves.
That is true, but in this case, the consequences are pretty heavily borne out by the parents who told them to abstain from sexual relations, as well as the society that told them to do the same thing. If we were to completely leave the entire responsibility for their actions upon the youths, then certainly we would have no place to tell them what to do. Since we pay the cost, we get to make the rules.
That said, an AI capable of simulating a 14 year old girl? Hard to imagine they could even simulate a 5 year old successfully. This doesn't seem like a good use of a universities resources.
Yes, a 14 year old girl at what time of day and what day of the week and which week of the month? If you can show me a 14 year old girl that acts the same for more than 20 minutes, then I might believe they could come up with an AI for one.
Oops. Guess I should have posted anonymously.
Any and all matter can be used in games of chance. Luckily for Florida, physical laws don't have to obey civil laws or Florida would suddenly cease to exist.
Sounds like Supercuts. My wife worked there for a short period. If there was a shortage in the cash register they made the employees working there that night cover the difference. It had to be repaid immediately even though Supercuts didn't pay their paycheck for working that night until two weeks later.
A GREAT landing is one after which you can use the plane again.
It's good they solved it, though it's kind of funny the solution was to hire western pilots..
I'm amazed that fixed anything. I have frequent dealings with Koreans at home, at work and at Church and I can tell you that as far as the culture is concerned, an elder Korean gets first ranking, then younger Korean, then adolescent Koreans, then baby Koreans, and then just below that is an elderly Westerner with a PhD, a Nobel Peace Prize and a half dozen New York Times best sellers.
I just want to point out that 48 hours in a 777 is like 10 hours in a regional jet. In 48 hours, he may have performed maybe 5 takeoffs and landings since most of the time in a 777 is spent doing next to nothing.