From TFA (Boston.com): "This is an extremely big deal. Kryptonite is the Microsoft of locks," said Brown, who estimates hundreds of thousands of the U-locks have been sold over the years. Kryptonite will not divulge sales numbers.
Well, they certainly are more like Microsoft now. Good for them:)
Ever heard the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"?
If you don't believe what he has written in the book, you can actually look in his footnotes and verify for yourself that the information is accurate.
The entire point of that book is to refute some of the lies in the books written by people such as O'Reilly. I'm not saying that Al Franken is unbiased (in fact he is biased) but that doesn't make his analytic refutations of the O'Reilly book any less accurate.
This is by far the best theater I have ever been to. They serve food and drinks, including alcohol, while you watch the movie.
Some of my best movie-watching experiences were at the drafthouse in Austin this summer. We went there to see Dodgeball, and before the movie they had a cage setup outside where they held a dodgeball tournament. Our technically inclined team got its butt kicked, but we had fun nonetheless.
They held a special pre-screening of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. They had a road rally scavenger hunt where we listened to clues on a CD and had to visit places all over Austin and call in for more clues when we got there. The last place in the road rally was a secret location where they were screening the film.
We got all the White Castle burgers we could eat (not many, they're disgusting) and after the movie the stars and writers came on stage to answer questions and chat about the movie.
I heard they did a special screening of Open Water on Lake Travis where you watched the movie while dangling your legs in the water.
The Mr. Sinus stuff is clearly a trademark infringement, and it's meant to be. It's too bad that Best Brains won't let them use the name, because it is a pretty clever parody and has built up a pretty strong brand in Austin. To go to a Mr. Sinus show you have to order tickets online at least a day in advance. Hopefully they can change the name to something decent and keep the brand with something like "Sinus Live".
What if I don't want people knowing where I am at all times? Unless this is something you can turn off, I don't see people climbing on board too readily.
You can turn this off whenever you want to. In fact, you never have to login if you care to mask your location.
You send messages to the Dodgeball server. The Dodgeball server sends messages to your friends.
It works as a passthrough, and works with any service provider.
And if you don't want other people joining in on your party for the night, don't invite them. You don't have to login wherever you go. But there are sometimes when you are at a bar or club and think "the more the merrier".
From the article: Best Buy executive vice president Philip Schoonover said the idea of "firing" some customers is one place where Best Buy disagrees with Selden. The company will try to find ways to make money-losing customers profitable, he said.
Actually, that's what they are doing. They say it should be fixed by December, coincidentally 1 month after the election. At that point, the electronic records will be open to the public.
You can get the hardcopy records for 4 hours if you live in the D.C. area, but those are 12 months out of date.
When has Microsoft ever raised prices, compared to the price growth of the rest of the industry, after beating out competitors?
History shows us that MS has actually reduced prices in the long term.
Their biggest competitor in most of their products is actually themselves. They have to convince customers to upgrade, and that means they can't raise prices indiscriminately.
Just because the law no longer mandates 1.5 overtime pay for certain jobs does not mean that you cannot request it in your contract.
If you are about to accept a job offer and they do not pay 1.5 for overtime, ask for it. If they refuse, suck it up or find another job. You don't need the government to mandate that they pay 1.5.
Does outsourcing have a positive NPV for the company?
For non-finance types, NPV = net present value. It is based on the idea that $1 today is worth more than $1 tomorrow. An example:
Let's say you can trade $100 today to get a $20 a year forever. For the purpose of this example, assume your discount rate (discount rate is like the interest rate with some risk added in) is 10%. The NPV of this investment is:
If you sum the series you get: NPV = -100 + 20 /.10 = +100.
There are clearly up front costs to outsourcing. Paying the severance packages to all your workers, buying offices offshore, buying equipment, all costs money. We'll say they invest $I initially to outsource.
There are annual savings in the form of reduced salaries. There are also annual costs as alluded to in the parent post in the form of communication issues as well as management issues. There are some other costs such as bad press that are harder to determine. Lets say that the net every year is a savings of $S.
NPV of outsourcing = -$I + $S / discount rate
Good managers only take positive NPV projects. If the project has a negative NPV there must be some non-financial reason to take the project (ie, show boardmembers that you are trying to cut costs). In a perfectly transparent economy, stock prices would go up if and only if managers took positive NPV projects.
I'm very curious what the NPV of these outsourcing investments are. How much money do the companies save compared to how much they had to spend initially. What is the value in today's dollars? Did they factor bad morale into their equation?
Come on mods. The grandparent was saying he never had a virus. The parent responds by saying he must be too small/dumb to notice he's being hacked.
The two are completely different. Viruses spread without targeting. The grandparent may or may not have been hacked, he never said. But he never got a virus.
Umm, this story has been all over the news. It's just not going to show up on US tech news sites, but if you watch CNN or read the paper here you are familiar with this story.
How much does an avarage person make, NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THAT. Why the hell do you want to reward the greed of some washed up voice actors (Let's face it Simpsons ain't what they used to be).
These people are not getting a government handout. They are earning their money by performing a job. The Simpsons brings in multiple millions every year, and these people deserve their fair share. Why does the average wage in this country have anything to do with what these people earn? Pro atheletes earn millions a year. As do singers/actors and other entertainers. When a person/voice develops their own "brand" they can and should charge more for their services. And about the quality of the show declining, fire the writers, the voices have only improved over time.
Man, I'd rather feed the poor and hungry or something, but that's just me.
Who knows what the actors will do with the money, but it is certainly not in Fox's abilityto donate the money . It would just go to shareholders in the form of a dividend. If they get the pay raise and you don't want your advertising dollars to go to the actors, don't watch the show and spend that time volunteering at a shelter or something, but don't complain about people getting their fair share from a show that brings in a ridiculous amount money.
I programmed at MS. Best job of my life. They treat you very well for one thing. There are no cubes, free drinks, and very little stress. You work with really smart people. There's usually a PM who designs your program, and a dedicated tester who finds bugs.
Everything about that job was great, although I tired of programming after a while and decided to change careers.
The best part, if you don't like the project you're working on you can easily transfer to another dept. Want to work on an OS, Server, Console, Game, Web site, etc?
Seriously, it's not like a person is reading your email. Software will give you ads based on the context of your email. No one is storing or using that information except for you. There is no "they" sending you an ad for a rose. A software algorithm chose that ad.
It is possible that if you were a suspect in a criminal investigation the police could access all your email with a warrant, but you could most likely delete your email before they obtained said warrant.
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From TFA (Boston.com):
:)
"This is an extremely big deal. Kryptonite is the Microsoft of locks," said Brown, who estimates hundreds of thousands of the U-locks have been sold over the years. Kryptonite will not divulge sales numbers.
Well, they certainly are more like Microsoft now. Good for them
Ever heard the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"? If you don't believe what he has written in the book, you can actually look in his footnotes and verify for yourself that the information is accurate. The entire point of that book is to refute some of the lies in the books written by people such as O'Reilly. I'm not saying that Al Franken is unbiased (in fact he is biased) but that doesn't make his analytic refutations of the O'Reilly book any less accurate.
Also, Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liers who Tell Them presents a wonderful point-by-point analysis of where Bill O'Reilly lies in his books.
O'Reilly really is a whacko and God help us if he is ever elected to presidential office.
How about this?
Get Password: P;
Encrypt_Key = md5(P."key_salt");
Password_Hash = md5(P."password_salt");
User logs in with Password T;
if (md5(T."password_salt") == Password_Hash)
Decrypt_Data(md5(T."key_salt);
Foldershare
We use foldershare for peer-to-peer backup, but the catch is that you invite people that you trust to your libraries.
For backup purposes, I only invite myself and just connect another computer to the account.
This is by far the best theater I have ever been to. They serve food and drinks, including alcohol, while you watch the movie.
Some of my best movie-watching experiences were at the drafthouse in Austin this summer. We went there to see Dodgeball, and before the movie they had a cage setup outside where they held a dodgeball tournament. Our technically inclined team got its butt kicked, but we had fun nonetheless.
They held a special pre-screening of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. They had a road rally scavenger hunt where we listened to clues on a CD and had to visit places all over Austin and call in for more clues when we got there. The last place in the road rally was a secret location where they were screening the film.
We got all the White Castle burgers we could eat (not many, they're disgusting) and after the movie the stars and writers came on stage to answer questions and chat about the movie.
I heard they did a special screening of Open Water on Lake Travis where you watched the movie while dangling your legs in the water.
The Mr. Sinus stuff is clearly a trademark infringement, and it's meant to be. It's too bad that Best Brains won't let them use the name, because it is a pretty clever parody and has built up a pretty strong brand in Austin. To go to a Mr. Sinus show you have to order tickets online at least a day in advance. Hopefully they can change the name to something decent and keep the brand with something like "Sinus Live".
What if I don't want people knowing where I am at all times? Unless this is something you can turn off, I don't see people climbing on board too readily.
You can turn this off whenever you want to. In fact, you never have to login if you care to mask your location.
You have this all wrong.
You send messages to the Dodgeball server.
The Dodgeball server sends messages to your friends.
It works as a passthrough, and works with any service provider.
And if you don't want other people joining in on your party for the night, don't invite them. You don't have to login wherever you go. But there are sometimes when you are at a bar or club and think "the more the merrier".
From the article:
Best Buy executive vice president Philip Schoonover said the idea of "firing" some customers is one place where Best Buy disagrees with Selden. The company will try to find ways to make money-losing customers profitable, he said.
Step 1: Start an ISP and claim that under no circumstances will you read your customers' emails. Give a free email encryption client to your users.
Step 2: Start advertising this fact, comparing to the competition who makes no such claim.
Step 3: Paranoid people everywhere who d/l pr0n or do anything they consider private flock to your ISP -> Profit!
Actually, that's what they are doing. They say it should be fixed by December, coincidentally 1 month after the election. At that point, the electronic records will be open to the public.
You can get the hardcopy records for 4 hours if you live in the D.C. area, but those are 12 months out of date.
When has Microsoft ever raised prices, compared to the price growth of the rest of the industry, after beating out competitors?
History shows us that MS has actually reduced prices in the long term.
Their biggest competitor in most of their products is actually themselves. They have to convince customers to upgrade, and that means they can't raise prices indiscriminately.
Just because the law no longer mandates 1.5 overtime pay for certain jobs does not mean that you cannot request it in your contract.
If you are about to accept a job offer and they do not pay 1.5 for overtime, ask for it. If they refuse, suck it up or find another job. You don't need the government to mandate that they pay 1.5.
Is it just me, or do these computers cost more than an equivalent Dell model?
Why not buy a Dell, format with Linux, good to go.
I guess they install Linux for free, and provide you with some sort of support, but if you really need that why not just use Windows?
Or, install Debian - it's getting easier every day.
The episode "Chosen" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated.
Does anyone know what that episode was about?
I would like to expand on this question somewhat:
.10 = +100.
Does outsourcing have a positive NPV for the company?
For non-finance types, NPV = net present value. It is based on the idea that $1 today is worth more than $1 tomorrow. An example:
Let's say you can trade $100 today to get a $20 a year forever. For the purpose of this example, assume your discount rate (discount rate is like the interest rate with some risk added in) is 10%. The NPV of this investment is:
NPV = -100 + 20 / 1.1^2 + 20 / 1.1^3 + 20 / 1.1^4....
If you sum the series you get:
NPV = -100 + 20 /
There are clearly up front costs to outsourcing. Paying the severance packages to all your workers, buying offices offshore, buying equipment, all costs money. We'll say they invest $I initially to outsource.
There are annual savings in the form of reduced salaries. There are also annual costs as alluded to in the parent post in the form of communication issues as well as management issues. There are some other costs such as bad press that are harder to determine. Lets say that the net every year is a savings of $S.
NPV of outsourcing = -$I + $S / discount rate
Good managers only take positive NPV projects. If the project has a negative NPV there must be some non-financial reason to take the project (ie, show boardmembers that you are trying to cut costs). In a perfectly transparent economy, stock prices would go up if and only if managers took positive NPV projects.
I'm very curious what the NPV of these outsourcing investments are. How much money do the companies save compared to how much they had to spend initially. What is the value in today's dollars? Did they factor bad morale into their equation?
If (Vote == Bush)
BushVotes++;
Else If (Vote == Gore)
If (Rand % 10 == 1)
BuchannenVotes++;
Else
GoreVotes++;
Very well said. This is probably the most clearly written explanation of copyright law I have seen on /.
If I had mod points I would mod you up, but alas, I am out...
Come on mods. The grandparent was saying he never had a virus. The parent responds by saying he must be too small/dumb to notice he's being hacked.
The two are completely different. Viruses spread without targeting. The grandparent may or may not have been hacked, he never said. But he never got a virus.
Umm, this story has been all over the news. It's just not going to show up on US tech news sites, but if you watch CNN or read the paper here you are familiar with this story.
You clearly don't understand capitalism.
How much does an avarage person make, NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THAT. Why the hell do you want to reward the greed of some washed up voice actors (Let's face it Simpsons ain't what they used to be).
These people are not getting a government handout. They are earning their money by performing a job. The Simpsons brings in multiple millions every year, and these people deserve their fair share. Why does the average wage in this country have anything to do with what these people earn? Pro atheletes earn millions a year. As do singers/actors and other entertainers. When a person/voice develops their own "brand" they can and should charge more for their services. And about the quality of the show declining, fire the writers, the voices have only improved over time.
Man, I'd rather feed the poor and hungry or something, but that's just me.
Who knows what the actors will do with the money, but it is certainly not in Fox's abilityto donate the money . It would just go to shareholders in the form of a dividend. If they get the pay raise and you don't want your advertising dollars to go to the actors, don't watch the show and spend that time volunteering at a shelter or something, but don't complain about people getting their fair share from a show that brings in a ridiculous amount money.
I programmed at MS. Best job of my life. They treat you very well for one thing. There are no cubes, free drinks, and very little stress. You work with really smart people. There's usually a PM who designs your program, and a dedicated tester who finds bugs.
Everything about that job was great, although I tired of programming after a while and decided to change careers.
The best part, if you don't like the project you're working on you can easily transfer to another dept. Want to work on an OS, Server, Console, Game, Web site, etc?
If you don't want ads, pay for email.
Seriously, it's not like a person is reading your email. Software will give you ads based on the context of your email. No one is storing or using that information except for you. There is no "they" sending you an ad for a rose. A software algorithm chose that ad.
It is possible that if you were a suspect in a criminal investigation the police could access all your email with a warrant, but you could most likely delete your email before they obtained said warrant.
He had a real tough tough time with this simple problem. Warning, second link has sound.
Actually MSN has posted a profit.