States have always complained about mail order purchases not paying sales tax. But in the past it was such a small percentage of the total it wasn't worth fighting for.
Now states are desperate for additional revenue because they've spent themselves into huge holes, and internet sales are a relatively bigger piece of the pie. Here in Pennsylvania the governor maxed out every tax increase he legally could, and has tried several times to hold fire sales on state assets such as the turnpike and gas rights to cover current year budget shortfalls. It just never seemed to occur to him that maybe, just maybe, the state is spending more money than it has.
Suppose this kind of trade restriction had been in place when Grove was CEO. Presumably other countries would respond with similar tariffs; could Intel have sold it's products in any country except the US? Not likely, the technology would have moved offshore much faster that it did.
The goal should be to make engineering and manufacturing in the US cost competitive. Not sure how that can be done, but I'm quite sure the current administration doesn't have that as one of it's goals.
The Back button has been the most used browser feature for years. I set the scroll wheel button to Browser Back; click on a link, scroll up and scroll down, navigate back. Fastest way to browse.
Easy to do in Windows but I can't figure out how to set it that way in X. The default settings of either Forward or Universal Scroll for the middle button are useless.
You have it backwards; this isn't discrimination, it's social engineering to encourage a particular behavior. Almost all tax law does that to some degree (think about 401K, long term vs. short term capital gains tax, depreciation, tax shelters, etc).
The purpose of tax breaks for home mortgages and married couples is to encourage raising children in stable, two parent households with one parent at home. If you're not married or not expected to breed with your spouse the incentives to raise children in the approved manner don't apply to you. The same can be said about maternity leave; conventional wisdom was that the mother should stay home and care for her baby rather than return to work. (And yea, I know the arguments about elderly or infertile couples. Save your electrons).
Kos' sponsors paid R2K for a year and a half because they got the results they wanted to hear, even though everybody knew the results were complete BS. They finally got called out on it so they go into damage control mode....That's good?
I agree that the names on a petition should be made public. But when it results in death threats and other forms of harassment there needs to be vigorous law enforcement to avoid political action by intimidation (or worse).
Excellent point. And does anyone believe that the Obama administration would be able to complete a study or make meaningful changes (or even suggestions for changes) in six months? They haven't shown any sign that they could. It's been over two months and so far all we've seen is finger pointing.
The fact is companies like to treat most jobs, excluding management positions, as unskilled labor.
You seem to imply that "managers" somehow spring forth from nothingness to become these godlike creatures. Most places I've worked the managers were once doing the job they are now managing. The exception is when the general manager is promoted up from Sales & Marketing; soon all the other managers are burned out salesmen who have no clue how to manage a project other than set goals and give frequent pep talks.
But back to the original topic, this seems like a bad idea to me. First (as has already been mentioned) the winner will be the person who is best able to sell his/her implementation, this usually means they either went for the "sizzle and not the steak", or they are in bed with the person making the decision. Second, you're unlikely to get a really good, professional programmer to work in that environment; they'll just go someplace else where the development organization is better organized.
Which is why a two party system is so much better than multiparty or cumulative. With two-party and one vote per candidate, both parties have to *compromise* in order to represent a majority of the electorate. Multiparty or cumulative voting means fringe groups get disproportionate representation.
Those who want Puerto Rico statehood are stuck in your ABC scenario today (Statehood, Independence, sovereign protectorate, or status quo). The Obama administration is trying to force their agenda through by requiring a Yes/No vote on status quo first, then after that is off the table a second election to pick one of the other options. The slight plurality who will settle for nothing other than statehood will be happy, but the other 70% of the electorate will be very unhappy.
I read a study a few years ago of high performing college students. One of the behaviors they found most often was the the top students transacribed their notes after class. Organizing them electronically might help you find something later. But reading, understanding what you wrote, and writing it again helps you remember it much better.
Mod parent up, all signs point to this; both parties play this game every election. Heck, a good percentage of Hillary's support in 2008 was from Republicans voting against Obama. Democrats play the same game (remember the South Carolina Bush vs McCain primary in 2000?).
But why pull this trick in SC when the Republican seat is safe? Simple, neither side would ever pass up an opportunity to embarrass the other.
Here's an idea. Let's have the government cancel the next generation of space exploration. That way the R&D can be outsourced and all the money saved can be used to hire more civil servants. Oh wait...
Polygraphs are basically a placebo to make you believe that they can detect your lies.
Absolutely true. A young woman I know got mad during a polygraph she was taking for a job with the CIA. In the middle of the test she stood up, pulled off the cuff and electrodes, and told the interviewer to "go bite the wall". She got the job.
Very bad advice on all four points. Most managers are managers because they're good negotiators; they asked for promotions and convinced their own managers why a promotion is a good thing for both parties. It's perfectly reasonable for an an employee to ask for higher compensation or a promotion, but the employee also has to understand that from the company's perspective there's no reason to pay a person more than necessary to get the job done. Unions only provide a temporary and artificial shortage of labor which forces wages higher until the company can make other adjustments such as automation, offshoring, or leaving the market.
That's not to say that there aren't toxic managers out there (I've seen a few), but they tend to run companies into the ground pretty quickly. A successful company will always be willing to work with good employees to maximize the benefit to both.
Which is: "Don't let go of what you got ahold of until you get ahold of something else with the other hand."
Get another offer before even hinting that you want a raise. Then you're in a good negotiating position. Otherwise all you have is an empty threat to start looking, and you've clued them in to start looking for your replacement.
Keep in mind that the real goal was to engage local application developers and gauge how well this kind of rapid one time application development project would work. This project had a budget of $50K, so if they got something that's useful to anyone at all they did well.
If MySQL meets your needs you wouldn't consider Oracle. If your application is successful enough that you need help scaling out a heavy duty DBMS solution, the guys who are supporting MySQL will be happy to send out a "consultant" to suggest alternatives.
I believe it was primarily their choice of a minimal utilitarian design that made people flock to Google,
Most of what you say is true, but the reason people flocked to Google is because the search engine returned relevant results. All of the other search engines at the time were loaded down with paid rankings; after you searched for something the top results were always irrelevant crap sites that had paid for the top spots (and there was no indication of which were actual search results and which were paid). To their credit, I think most Google results are still unbiased, but there's reason to believe they manipulate some searches related to politics
This reminds me of the infighting at the Association for Computing Machinery back in the 1980's. Up until then it was very relevant to programmers' interests; but then a group of people who were more focused on social issues took over and diverted much of the budget and journal space to their own agenda. Membership plummeted and the ACM never really recovered the status it had in the 60's and 70's.
If the entire, unedited video is posted I don't have a problem with recording. But if only selected portions are shown with the intention of embarrassing someone, it seems like a either libel or harassment (IANAL, so I don't know for sure). In general I believe that you can't record audio, because there is an expectation of privacy there.
"Global Network", pointed out that Foxconn committed suicide after the incident, all countries have proposed to boycott Foxconn generation of Internet users in the production of apples and other products...Internet users in Antartica that Taiwanese companies in mainland China and major Western companies, rely on cheap labor in China to reduce product cost. Chris said Internet users, the management of their own lack of humanity too.
So it isn't just a few employees; the whole company committed suicide. Mostly because of the inhumane internet users in Antartica. The things you learn on Slashdot.
Shouldn't -everyone- have at least one MP/representative of their chosen political ideology in government?
IMHO, the answer to your question is "No". In a two party system, both parties try to appeal to the majority of the voters. This tends to keep the elected officials reasonably moderate and avoids coalitions in which a fringe group has a vastly disproportionate voice. Republicans moved too far to the right and got voted out; Democrats are currently too far to the left and will soon be voted out.
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States have always complained about mail order purchases not paying sales tax. But in the past it was such a small percentage of the total it wasn't worth fighting for.
Now states are desperate for additional revenue because they've spent themselves into huge holes, and internet sales are a relatively bigger piece of the pie. Here in Pennsylvania the governor maxed out every tax increase he legally could, and has tried several times to hold fire sales on state assets such as the turnpike and gas rights to cover current year budget shortfalls. It just never seemed to occur to him that maybe, just maybe, the state is spending more money than it has.
Suppose this kind of trade restriction had been in place when Grove was CEO. Presumably other countries would respond with similar tariffs; could Intel have sold it's products in any country except the US? Not likely, the technology would have moved offshore much faster that it did.
The goal should be to make engineering and manufacturing in the US cost competitive. Not sure how that can be done, but I'm quite sure the current administration doesn't have that as one of it's goals.
The Back button has been the most used browser feature for years. I set the scroll wheel button to Browser Back; click on a link, scroll up and scroll down, navigate back. Fastest way to browse.
Easy to do in Windows but I can't figure out how to set it that way in X. The default settings of either Forward or Universal Scroll for the middle button are useless.
You have it backwards; this isn't discrimination, it's social engineering to encourage a particular behavior. Almost all tax law does that to some degree (think about 401K, long term vs. short term capital gains tax, depreciation, tax shelters, etc).
The purpose of tax breaks for home mortgages and married couples is to encourage raising children in stable, two parent households with one parent at home. If you're not married or not expected to breed with your spouse the incentives to raise children in the approved manner don't apply to you. The same can be said about maternity leave; conventional wisdom was that the mother should stay home and care for her baby rather than return to work. (And yea, I know the arguments about elderly or infertile couples. Save your electrons).
Kos' sponsors paid R2K for a year and a half because they got the results they wanted to hear, even though everybody knew the results were complete BS. They finally got called out on it so they go into damage control mode....That's good?
I agree that the names on a petition should be made public. But when it results in death threats and other forms of harassment there needs to be vigorous law enforcement to avoid political action by intimidation (or worse).
The distinction is important.
Excellent point. And does anyone believe that the Obama administration would be able to complete a study or make meaningful changes (or even suggestions for changes) in six months? They haven't shown any sign that they could. It's been over two months and so far all we've seen is finger pointing.
The fact is companies like to treat most jobs, excluding management positions, as unskilled labor.
You seem to imply that "managers" somehow spring forth from nothingness to become these godlike creatures. Most places I've worked the managers were once doing the job they are now managing. The exception is when the general manager is promoted up from Sales & Marketing; soon all the other managers are burned out salesmen who have no clue how to manage a project other than set goals and give frequent pep talks.
But back to the original topic, this seems like a bad idea to me. First (as has already been mentioned) the winner will be the person who is best able to sell his/her implementation, this usually means they either went for the "sizzle and not the steak", or they are in bed with the person making the decision. Second, you're unlikely to get a really good, professional programmer to work in that environment; they'll just go someplace else where the development organization is better organized.
then the best candidate should be B, not A or C
Which is why a two party system is so much better than multiparty or cumulative. With two-party and one vote per candidate, both parties have to *compromise* in order to represent a majority of the electorate. Multiparty or cumulative voting means fringe groups get disproportionate representation.
Those who want Puerto Rico statehood are stuck in your ABC scenario today (Statehood, Independence, sovereign protectorate, or status quo). The Obama administration is trying to force their agenda through by requiring a Yes/No vote on status quo first, then after that is off the table a second election to pick one of the other options. The slight plurality who will settle for nothing other than statehood will be happy, but the other 70% of the electorate will be very unhappy.
I read a study a few years ago of high performing college students. One of the behaviors they found most often was the the top students transacribed their notes after class. Organizing them electronically might help you find something later. But reading, understanding what you wrote, and writing it again helps you remember it much better.
Mod parent up, all signs point to this; both parties play this game every election. Heck, a good percentage of Hillary's support in 2008 was from Republicans voting against Obama. Democrats play the same game (remember the South Carolina Bush vs McCain primary in 2000?).
But why pull this trick in SC when the Republican seat is safe? Simple, neither side would ever pass up an opportunity to embarrass the other.
Here's an idea. Let's have the government cancel the next generation of space exploration. That way the R&D can be outsourced and all the money saved can be used to hire more civil servants. Oh wait...
Ten Million is a steal if you realize how much you can make off renting it out.
Heck yes!. Clinton was getting $100k per night for the Lincoln Bedroom alone.
Polygraphs are basically a placebo to make you believe that they can detect your lies.
Absolutely true. A young woman I know got mad during a polygraph she was taking for a job with the CIA. In the middle of the test she stood up, pulled off the cuff and electrodes, and told the interviewer to "go bite the wall". She got the job.
Very bad advice on all four points. Most managers are managers because they're good negotiators; they asked for promotions and convinced their own managers why a promotion is a good thing for both parties. It's perfectly reasonable for an an employee to ask for higher compensation or a promotion, but the employee also has to understand that from the company's perspective there's no reason to pay a person more than necessary to get the job done. Unions only provide a temporary and artificial shortage of labor which forces wages higher until the company can make other adjustments such as automation, offshoring, or leaving the market.
That's not to say that there aren't toxic managers out there (I've seen a few), but they tend to run companies into the ground pretty quickly. A successful company will always be willing to work with good employees to maximize the benefit to both.
Which is: "Don't let go of what you got ahold of until you get ahold of something else with the other hand."
Get another offer before even hinting that you want a raise. Then you're in a good negotiating position. Otherwise all you have is an empty threat to start looking, and you've clued them in to start looking for your replacement.
Keep in mind that the real goal was to engage local application developers and gauge how well this kind of rapid one time application development project would work. This project had a budget of $50K, so if they got something that's useful to anyone at all they did well.
If MySQL meets your needs you wouldn't consider Oracle. If your application is successful enough that you need help scaling out a heavy duty DBMS solution, the guys who are supporting MySQL will be happy to send out a "consultant" to suggest alternatives.
And what do you suppose they will suggest?
I believe it was primarily their choice of a minimal utilitarian design that made people flock to Google,
Most of what you say is true, but the reason people flocked to Google is because the search engine returned relevant results. All of the other search engines at the time were loaded down with paid rankings; after you searched for something the top results were always irrelevant crap sites that had paid for the top spots (and there was no indication of which were actual search results and which were paid). To their credit, I think most Google results are still unbiased, but there's reason to believe they manipulate some searches related to politics
This reminds me of the infighting at the Association for Computing Machinery back in the 1980's. Up until then it was very relevant to programmers' interests; but then a group of people who were more focused on social issues took over and diverted much of the budget and journal space to their own agenda. Membership plummeted and the ACM never really recovered the status it had in the 60's and 70's.
Actually, this spill has a long way to go before it approaches the biggest oil spill in the gulf.
If the entire, unedited video is posted I don't have a problem with recording. But if only selected portions are shown with the intention of embarrassing someone, it seems like a either libel or harassment (IANAL, so I don't know for sure). In general I believe that you can't record audio, because there is an expectation of privacy there.
"Global Network", pointed out that Foxconn committed suicide after the incident, all countries have proposed to boycott Foxconn generation of Internet users in the production of apples and other products...Internet users in Antartica that Taiwanese companies in mainland China and major Western companies, rely on cheap labor in China to reduce product cost. Chris said Internet users, the management of their own lack of humanity too.
So it isn't just a few employees; the whole company committed suicide. Mostly because of the inhumane internet users in Antartica. The things you learn on Slashdot.
The problem they had was the methane freezing, all they need to do is warm it up a little. Problem solved.
Shouldn't -everyone- have at least one MP/representative of their chosen political ideology in government?
IMHO, the answer to your question is "No". In a two party system, both parties try to appeal to the majority of the voters. This tends to keep the elected officials reasonably moderate and avoids coalitions in which a fringe group has a vastly disproportionate voice. Republicans moved too far to the right and got voted out; Democrats are currently too far to the left and will soon be voted out.