Is this a common incorrect near homonym of the word spite? This is literally the first time I have ever seen someone use spike instead of spite in this phrase. Spike doesn't even make sense. It doesn't mean anything like spite and spite is even clear in the context of the parent's post. Why would you use the wrong word when the wrong word doesn't even mean anything close to what you are saying?
This is the decision of a dim-witted suit, and no doubt once LinkedIn realise it's a stupid move he'll be long gone with his performance bonus securely trousered.
No, the engineer that actually made the change under protest at the manager's direction will be fired and the manager will be promoted.
Well as a long time Linked-In user and a very begrudging ans short time Facebook user, I was amazed to see that your front page of LinkedIn is eerily similar to the your Facebook home page. So much so that I thought one had bought out the other or something. Even right down to the little icons with the number of messages/whathaveyou in that category.
How exactly are they being actively discouraged? By being forced to take a computer class as part of core curriculum when they aren't really interested in computers? By being encouraged to take AP science and math so that they can get into a good college? By being given equal opportunity to choose which electives they want to take? Literally the only discrimination I see in any of the education programs is in the sports program, which I think the school's could do without anyway. If anything, not letting the girls play some of the rougher sports probably encourages more of them to go into academics, including STEM.
Study after study supports that hiring and compensation programs have a gender bias.
That is correct. Women are paid less than men with equal skills and equal jobs. And yet somehow there are still fewer women. Could it be that companies are so foolish with their money that even though a just as competent woman is cheaper, they would still hire the male?
The math falls apart most the time if two people could win
Not only that, but you also have to take into consideration either the lump sum payout (55%) or the inflation of taking the money over 30 years and you have to take into consideration taxes.
Let's say you are the only winner. You would get $337.9 million.
If you take the lump sum payout, you would get about $186 million.
After the federal government's 39.6% cut, you would get $112 million.
So your expected return on a $2 ticket to a single winner without deducting your state and local taxes is about $0.64 per dollar invested. In order to make it worth your while, you should not play the lottery until it hits $527 million, assuming a single winner.
Now let's say two people win the lottery. That means you get about 169 million.
Let's say you take the lump sum payout. That would be close to 93 million. With the governments 39.6% cut, that leaves you with 56 million. So your expected return on a $2 ticket if two people wins is $0.32 per dollar invested. In order to make it worth your while, you should not play the lottery until it hits over $1.05 billion dollars.
If I really invested a lot of effort, I could come up with the expected number of people to win based on the number of people playing and come up with an overall expected return per dollar invested. Business Insider has done the math and determined that as the value of the jackpot goes up, the number of players goes up polynomially, so the chance of a split jackpot goes up. They determined that if you take the annuity, that the expected value reaches $1 per dollar at $348 million, however, they did not consider inflation or taxes. If you take into consideration those two factors, the polynomial input of players and likelihood of splits would likely cause an approach to a maximum Expected Return per dollar, which is probably somewhere in the area of $0.55 - $0.60 cents.
That's what I always thought but here in New Zealand, avoiding tax is also illegal.
So if you were to buy a home and deduct the mortgage interest rather than renting a home, they throw you in jail? That is what avoiding taxes is, taking advantage of the programs put in place by the government to encourage citizens to partake (or to not partake) in an activity. Some taxing districts offer incentives to lure businesses to do business in their district. How can somebody be punished for partaking in what was legally offered to them by a legal entity?
I was not in the IT department, and didn't have a lot of faith in the IT department, but for what we paid on support and equipment costs on the SAN, it certainly should not have failed as often as it did. In fact, I think we even had remote monitoring so the company was supposed to notify us if there were issues with any of the devices or the firmware.
I have a Dell keyboard that has music controls on it. I can tell just by looking at the keyboard in the article that my current keyboard is far, far more useful to me as a developer, user and gamer than the one in the article. But then, the one in the article is for "hackers", and since they don't define what they mean by "hacker", then the term probably could be applied. A hacker is apparently someone that likes to take extra steps to achieve functions which are more efficiently achieved on a standard keyboard.
They don't mention the rate of theft of androids or other smartphones. Why single out iphones? It's not like criminals know what type of phone you have when they come up and demand your valuables.
Phones are kind of expensive. You should get a notarized purchase agreement from the seller which also indicates that they make no further claim to the phone and they may not disable the phone, track it, etc.
In my experience, the least reliable piece of equipment in a raid cluster is the raid controller software or hardware. I have literally never seen a hard drive fail and the raid controller seemlessly rebuild onto hot spare. I've worked in a company that had a half million dollar SAN which experienced outages several times a year and they were generally not due to a problem with a drive.
Avoiding is not illegal. Evading is illegal. Avoiding paying road tolls is when you take surface streets so you don't have to pay tolls on the highway. Evading paying tolls is when you take the highway put don't put any money in the till when you get to the toll booth.
If the bank is helping clients to avoid paying taxes, then the bank is to be congratulated for providing good sound business advice to their clients and enabling them to take advantage of tax situations set up on purpose by various taxing districts in order to lure business to their jurisdiction. If they are helping clients to evade taxes, then they need to be thrown in jail along with their clients.
At some point in the next 10 years or so, people will realize it is too expensive and risky to remotely manage offshore development, especially as the wages of India and China go up and the wages of local workers goes down. At that time, then there will be a glut of companies bringing development back onshore.
Amazing how many responders are showing their own stupidity while trying to expose other's stupidity.
Note for those who think they are learned but are actually very obviously ignorant: Arkansas is not the same state as Kansas.
Of course it is deflationary. If the government's lies are to be believed, inflation is about 3%, so a bitcoin should grow in value by 3% a year once fully mined. There should be any number of investments that outperform 3%, so people should use it like a currency.
Of course, this flies in the face of inflationary currencies like the USD, where the philosophy is by all means spend it right now before it becomes worthless.
You're probably right, but I get annoyed on some of the safety crap. Like on my lawn tractor, the seat contacts are a little worn and if I lean forward or bounce on a rock while the blades are engaged, the mower will start to die. Similar issue with trying to start the mower. It won't start with the blades engaged (which makes sense), but the sensor is worn, and now in order to start the tractor, I have to haul back on the blade engage lever. I used to be able to get off the mower as long as the blades were not engaged, but due to the worn sensor, it now thinks they are engaged when they are not, so I can't get off the mower. Backing up is the same issue. It won't let you back up with the blades engaged, even if they are not engaged, but it thinks they are.
Quote at the bottom of the page "A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson". How appropriate.
If you read TFA (as if), you'd see that unless you contact Verizon you get nothing at all. Only if you call up and ask do you get to pick between more data or less cost.
I don't trust Verizon any farther than I can throw them. SOMETHING is changing in their favor and this article doesn't mention what it is, but it is there, I guarantee you.
I used to have unlimited data. I am not even a heavy user of data. I currently use less than 500MB per month, but they managed me to swindle me out of the unlimited data plan by offering something else that appeared to be cheaper at first, but ended up being about the same for a 1 GB plan as what I previously paid for unlimited. Now, you might say I haven't lost anything since I don't use that much data anyway, but I had the freedom to use unlimited if I wanted or needed to.
Here is a breakdown of the plan I am on:
Unlimited talk and text: $40
My Smartphone: $40 (advertised rate of $20)
My wife's Smartphone: $40 (advertised rate of $20)
My kid's regular phone: $30 (advertised rate of $10)
If you add up the plan pricing according to their advertising, I should be paying $90 a month. If you add it up according to what is on the bill, I should be paying $150. I am actually paying about $168.
The plan I am on currently on their website advertises $145 for 4 lines and 8 GBs. I have three lines and 1 GB and it is $168.
They would go broke. The reason all of the sensors are there is because when they didn't have sensors, and some farmer misused they tool and got hurt, they sued the manufacturer and won lots of money. So now there are sensors to make sure you have a bum in the seat, that you don't back up with blades engaged, etc., etc.
Nothing is easy to maintain anymore because society no longer wants individuals to take responsibility for their own poor judgment.
There is a difference between what a manufacturer should be responsible for and what an owner should be responsible for. For example: Engine throws a rod, causing shrapnel to injure operator. Manufacturer is responsible. Another example: Equipment allows operator to get off and stroll around in front of equipment and operator gets run over. Operator is responsible. Unfortunately, when operators misuse equipment through poor judgment, the courts side with the operator, so the manufacturer is forced to remove functionality from all users because one user is unable to exercise the commons sense required to operate the machinery.
On my Canon 30D, you press the button, and within microseconds the shutter opens.
Yes. At least 68,000 microseconds according to one source.
1/15th of a second is a far cry better than 1 or 2 seconds like on a smartphone. Also note that the reviewer indicates that 68,000 microseconds is "very fast".
"double the cores" does not make a computer 10x faster.
Sure it does, in binary.
But in all seriousness, that is the point I am making, I had 2 times the cores, the same clockspeed, but independent reviews spec the new processor as 10X more operations than the old one. Obviously we have made significant advances in transistor density, instruction pipelining, caching algorithms, and probably several other areas which combine to make the same frequency CPU capable of 10 times the performance.
On this site, you can find several examples of older CPUs that have 1/10th, 1/20th or less the performance of a current model with the same frequency.
As a really off the wall example, the Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz (Q2 2014) has almost 100 times the performance of the Intel Xeon 2.40GHz (Q1 2009).
Was it the CPU that improved or was it your northbridge speed and memory bandwidth that improved? Since you just mentioned the CPU, I thought I'd ask.
The computer as a whole was very obviously faster, so memory may have had something to do with it, but when I looked at the raw CPU specs on an online reviewing site (I forget which one now) for my old processor and my new one, with the same frequency, it was a factor of 10.
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Sure, but to spell it wrong twice in the same post seems a little bit suspicious.
Is this a common incorrect near homonym of the word spite? This is literally the first time I have ever seen someone use spike instead of spite in this phrase. Spike doesn't even make sense. It doesn't mean anything like spite and spite is even clear in the context of the parent's post. Why would you use the wrong word when the wrong word doesn't even mean anything close to what you are saying?
This is the decision of a dim-witted suit, and no doubt once LinkedIn realise it's a stupid move he'll be long gone with his performance bonus securely trousered.
No, the engineer that actually made the change under protest at the manager's direction will be fired and the manager will be promoted.
Well as a long time Linked-In user and a very begrudging ans short time Facebook user, I was amazed to see that your front page of LinkedIn is eerily similar to the your Facebook home page. So much so that I thought one had bought out the other or something. Even right down to the little icons with the number of messages/whathaveyou in that category.
Even in terms of STEM, white males are a minority. It is mostly Indians and Asians.
How exactly are they being actively discouraged? By being forced to take a computer class as part of core curriculum when they aren't really interested in computers? By being encouraged to take AP science and math so that they can get into a good college? By being given equal opportunity to choose which electives they want to take? Literally the only discrimination I see in any of the education programs is in the sports program, which I think the school's could do without anyway. If anything, not letting the girls play some of the rougher sports probably encourages more of them to go into academics, including STEM.
Study after study supports that hiring and compensation programs have a gender bias.
That is correct. Women are paid less than men with equal skills and equal jobs. And yet somehow there are still fewer women. Could it be that companies are so foolish with their money that even though a just as competent woman is cheaper, they would still hire the male?
The math falls apart most the time if two people could win
Not only that, but you also have to take into consideration either the lump sum payout (55%) or the inflation of taking the money over 30 years and you have to take into consideration taxes.
Let's say you are the only winner. You would get $337.9 million.
If you take the lump sum payout, you would get about $186 million.
After the federal government's 39.6% cut, you would get $112 million.
So your expected return on a $2 ticket to a single winner without deducting your state and local taxes is about $0.64 per dollar invested. In order to make it worth your while, you should not play the lottery until it hits $527 million, assuming a single winner.
Now let's say two people win the lottery. That means you get about 169 million.
Let's say you take the lump sum payout. That would be close to 93 million. With the governments 39.6% cut, that leaves you with 56 million. So your expected return on a $2 ticket if two people wins is $0.32 per dollar invested. In order to make it worth your while, you should not play the lottery until it hits over $1.05 billion dollars.
If I really invested a lot of effort, I could come up with the expected number of people to win based on the number of people playing and come up with an overall expected return per dollar invested. Business Insider has done the math and determined that as the value of the jackpot goes up, the number of players goes up polynomially, so the chance of a split jackpot goes up. They determined that if you take the annuity, that the expected value reaches $1 per dollar at $348 million, however, they did not consider inflation or taxes. If you take into consideration those two factors, the polynomial input of players and likelihood of splits would likely cause an approach to a maximum Expected Return per dollar, which is probably somewhere in the area of $0.55 - $0.60 cents.
That's what I always thought but here in New Zealand, avoiding tax is also illegal.
So if you were to buy a home and deduct the mortgage interest rather than renting a home, they throw you in jail? That is what avoiding taxes is, taking advantage of the programs put in place by the government to encourage citizens to partake (or to not partake) in an activity. Some taxing districts offer incentives to lure businesses to do business in their district. How can somebody be punished for partaking in what was legally offered to them by a legal entity?
I was not in the IT department, and didn't have a lot of faith in the IT department, but for what we paid on support and equipment costs on the SAN, it certainly should not have failed as often as it did. In fact, I think we even had remote monitoring so the company was supposed to notify us if there were issues with any of the devices or the firmware.
I have a Dell keyboard that has music controls on it. I can tell just by looking at the keyboard in the article that my current keyboard is far, far more useful to me as a developer, user and gamer than the one in the article. But then, the one in the article is for "hackers", and since they don't define what they mean by "hacker", then the term probably could be applied. A hacker is apparently someone that likes to take extra steps to achieve functions which are more efficiently achieved on a standard keyboard.
They don't mention the rate of theft of androids or other smartphones. Why single out iphones? It's not like criminals know what type of phone you have when they come up and demand your valuables.
Phones are kind of expensive. You should get a notarized purchase agreement from the seller which also indicates that they make no further claim to the phone and they may not disable the phone, track it, etc.
In my experience, the least reliable piece of equipment in a raid cluster is the raid controller software or hardware. I have literally never seen a hard drive fail and the raid controller seemlessly rebuild onto hot spare. I've worked in a company that had a half million dollar SAN which experienced outages several times a year and they were generally not due to a problem with a drive.
Avoiding is not illegal. Evading is illegal. Avoiding paying road tolls is when you take surface streets so you don't have to pay tolls on the highway. Evading paying tolls is when you take the highway put don't put any money in the till when you get to the toll booth.
If the bank is helping clients to avoid paying taxes, then the bank is to be congratulated for providing good sound business advice to their clients and enabling them to take advantage of tax situations set up on purpose by various taxing districts in order to lure business to their jurisdiction. If they are helping clients to evade taxes, then they need to be thrown in jail along with their clients.
At some point in the next 10 years or so, people will realize it is too expensive and risky to remotely manage offshore development, especially as the wages of India and China go up and the wages of local workers goes down. At that time, then there will be a glut of companies bringing development back onshore.
Amazing how many responders are showing their own stupidity while trying to expose other's stupidity.
Note for those who think they are learned but are actually very obviously ignorant: Arkansas is not the same state as Kansas.
Of course it is deflationary. If the government's lies are to be believed, inflation is about 3%, so a bitcoin should grow in value by 3% a year once fully mined. There should be any number of investments that outperform 3%, so people should use it like a currency.
Of course, this flies in the face of inflationary currencies like the USD, where the philosophy is by all means spend it right now before it becomes worthless.
So someone promises you annual rates of return of 200 to 300% and you believe them.
Bitcoin, of course, very specifically goes out of their way to indicate that there is no such promise.
You're probably right, but I get annoyed on some of the safety crap. Like on my lawn tractor, the seat contacts are a little worn and if I lean forward or bounce on a rock while the blades are engaged, the mower will start to die. Similar issue with trying to start the mower. It won't start with the blades engaged (which makes sense), but the sensor is worn, and now in order to start the tractor, I have to haul back on the blade engage lever. I used to be able to get off the mower as long as the blades were not engaged, but due to the worn sensor, it now thinks they are engaged when they are not, so I can't get off the mower. Backing up is the same issue. It won't let you back up with the blades engaged, even if they are not engaged, but it thinks they are.
Quote at the bottom of the page "A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson". How appropriate.
If you read TFA (as if), you'd see that unless you contact Verizon you get nothing at all. Only if you call up and ask do you get to pick between more data or less cost.
I don't trust Verizon any farther than I can throw them. SOMETHING is changing in their favor and this article doesn't mention what it is, but it is there, I guarantee you.
I used to have unlimited data. I am not even a heavy user of data. I currently use less than 500MB per month, but they managed me to swindle me out of the unlimited data plan by offering something else that appeared to be cheaper at first, but ended up being about the same for a 1 GB plan as what I previously paid for unlimited. Now, you might say I haven't lost anything since I don't use that much data anyway, but I had the freedom to use unlimited if I wanted or needed to.
Here is a breakdown of the plan I am on:
Unlimited talk and text: $40
My Smartphone: $40 (advertised rate of $20)
My wife's Smartphone: $40 (advertised rate of $20)
My kid's regular phone: $30 (advertised rate of $10)
If you add up the plan pricing according to their advertising, I should be paying $90 a month. If you add it up according to what is on the bill, I should be paying $150. I am actually paying about $168.
The plan I am on currently on their website advertises $145 for 4 lines and 8 GBs. I have three lines and 1 GB and it is $168.
If the demand is really there, then go fill it.
They would go broke. The reason all of the sensors are there is because when they didn't have sensors, and some farmer misused they tool and got hurt, they sued the manufacturer and won lots of money. So now there are sensors to make sure you have a bum in the seat, that you don't back up with blades engaged, etc., etc. Nothing is easy to maintain anymore because society no longer wants individuals to take responsibility for their own poor judgment.
There is a difference between what a manufacturer should be responsible for and what an owner should be responsible for. For example: Engine throws a rod, causing shrapnel to injure operator. Manufacturer is responsible. Another example: Equipment allows operator to get off and stroll around in front of equipment and operator gets run over. Operator is responsible. Unfortunately, when operators misuse equipment through poor judgment, the courts side with the operator, so the manufacturer is forced to remove functionality from all users because one user is unable to exercise the commons sense required to operate the machinery.
On my Canon 30D, you press the button, and within microseconds the shutter opens.
Yes. At least 68,000 microseconds according to one source.
1/15th of a second is a far cry better than 1 or 2 seconds like on a smartphone. Also note that the reviewer indicates that 68,000 microseconds is "very fast".
"double the cores" does not make a computer 10x faster.
Sure it does, in binary.
But in all seriousness, that is the point I am making, I had 2 times the cores, the same clockspeed, but independent reviews spec the new processor as 10X more operations than the old one. Obviously we have made significant advances in transistor density, instruction pipelining, caching algorithms, and probably several other areas which combine to make the same frequency CPU capable of 10 times the performance.
On this site, you can find several examples of older CPUs that have 1/10th, 1/20th or less the performance of a current model with the same frequency. As a really off the wall example, the Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz (Q2 2014) has almost 100 times the performance of the Intel Xeon 2.40GHz (Q1 2009).
Was it the CPU that improved or was it your northbridge speed and memory bandwidth that improved? Since you just mentioned the CPU, I thought I'd ask.
The computer as a whole was very obviously faster, so memory may have had something to do with it, but when I looked at the raw CPU specs on an online reviewing site (I forget which one now) for my old processor and my new one, with the same frequency, it was a factor of 10.