as a father who is raising our kids to understand that words are merely words, and that some are extremely offensive to others, and to have both the maturity and restraint to know WHEN such cases apply
It's really nice to know there are still parents out there who think like I do and believe it's the responsibility of the parents to teach and or protect their children. Unfortunately, we're in a sad minority on those views. It's too easy to make children, then let the schools and the TV babysit them... practically effortless.
I don't think I want my children "numbed" by shows that use profanity as it there were no tomorrow, so we don't let them watch shows like The Sopranos, rather than complain to HBO about it.
TV is a fairly decent tool for recreation, but shouldn't be a medium where kids spend all their free time, wether it be watching Nickelodeon, the Science Channel, or playing a PS2 game. Unfortunately, a good number of parents would rather let their kids stare glassy eyed at the TV rather than expend the energy it takes to spend time with them.
I hear ya, but I think what I was trying to convey, though didn't come out and say it, is who decides wether the violence is senseless or not?
In The Passion of the Christ, some argue that it's more violent than they believe actually happened. In other recent movies, maybe the violence makes sense to others.
In reality, movies are a prime example of capitalism at work.... you voice your opinion by either being part of the gross revenue or not. Personally, that's where I think the complaints about violence ought to stay.
Yeah, but it hasn't stopped folks from spending their money on violent movies. It's amazing how much the Passion of the Christ has made, and I'd assume quite a bit from the conservative folks who complain loudly about movie/game violence.
Shhhhhh... don't tell them that! When the blue haired grandmothers that need nothing more than e-mail machines stop buying high end processors, the money will dry up for R&D at Intel/AMD. Then folks like us will have to pay even more for upgrades!
That was discussed on BUGTRAQ over the last week or so. Seems just adding a *.*+ would relieve the problem, as any files in.ZIP archives that are password protected have that + on the end of them.
Good point, though I'm pretty sure most people I know (in the states or otherwise) would always like to do a little better than they are at the time.
However, the American way seems to be "collect what you can, and stay with/ahead of your neighbor." If the commercials on TV show you a life of luxury, but you realize with your education level you're destined for a life with cars that break down (if you can afford a car at all) and a dwelling in a bad part of town, then it's got to be tempting to look at alternative means of income. Just my $0.02.
The buggy whip manufacturers didn't see their jobs being outsourced to other countries. Rather, they say their industry evolve or sink, based on other local companies taking over.
i would be flabbergasted if those compaqs are made in america
Not so interestingly enough, they shut down the assembly plant in Cypress (near Houston), and their pc's are made in Thailand. Their servers are still assembled in Tomball (also near Houston). I don't know of any plans by them to ship that out of the US, but these days you never know.
On every project I work on for MegaHuge Chemical Company I typically am on a development team of 4-10, and always have one manager.
I think most people posting here realize that the management portion of the outsourcing stays stateside. It's the fact that most people in IT aren't managers, and there isn't a huge hiring frenzy for IT managers because of the outsourcing of programming positions.
Except it has absolutely nothing to do with who is best, rather it has everything to do with who is cheaper. You really don't see any outsourcing of US IT jobs to England, Germany, Japan, etc... You see them going to India, China, Lithuania, etc... (no offense to residents of those countries) because people will simply work for less income than in the US.
In the US, a lot of the people that sell drugs do it as a means to make lots of money... mainly because they feel they have no other means. Many high school dropouts, etc... What are they going to do to pay off the fines? Work at McDonald's? No, they'll go back to selling drugs, only this time in larger quantities to pay off the fines, and using their "experience" to keep from getting caught a second time.
While I agree that the methodology appears flawed, there's one point to throwing out worms when conducting a security survey. A NIMDA and SLAMMER weren't designed to steal credit card or other personal information, they were nuisances. While they can be categorized as security breaches, they're not the kind of security breach that leads to identity or monetary theft. My guess is that's what this survey was aiming at.
The company I write HR software for uses CareerBuilder.com, but adds to that a program called RecruitSoft. So if you follow the ad in CareerBuilder, you go to another website. There you fill out more forms and answer questions, and you're graded BY THE SYSTEM. I have personally pointed out a few times where a qualified candidate didn't even get considered because the information was incomplete (maybe the candidate's fault, maybe fault of the system). Evil I tell you.
With regard to the usefullness of online job boards, I'll say this. Most of the "positions" I find on them are really generic postings by the headhunters anyway, who simply want to get your resume on file so they can call you if something does come up. It's slightly helpful, but rarely to actual companies post to them.
I'll have to do the same, thanks for the info. And I agree with you wholeheartedly... with a movie of that caliber, you'd think there'd be some directors cuts, actor/actress interviews, and though I can't imagine it, bloopers would be fun. But at least no trailers. Weird format.
Maybe this is a little offtopic, but my fiance and I finally broke down and bought Goodfellas. It completely shocked us that it not only didn't force you to watch any trailers at the start of the DVD, but it didn't have any. Once the DVD was spinning, the movie started (which was actually a little annoying too).
Sounds like you did more research than I did... all I read was a summary of the filing. 4.8 is an astonishing amount of cash... I'd love to know (this time I searched more and couldn't find it) what Apple's annual payroll and fixed expenses are. I'm sure they're far less than the 4.8, leaving Apple in a bad tax/finance situation, but a great position for spending on things like R&D, ramping up development, etc...
That would be a different story, as $3BB is a hefty amount of cash. However, out of that comes things like salaries, bulk payments to health care providers, lease on office space (if they don't own their building), federal filings, etc...
Given all of that, it's probably still a hefty chunk of change and leaves them in a nice position for marketing and/or R&D.
Total assets are a far cry from cash, and include land/improvements, office equipment, machinery, etc... as well as cash. Also included would be investments in other companies, which Apple has been known to do.
so it seems that some day we might all need a little Spanish.
Interesting you say that, given all the commentary regarding a move to more unified language(s), and quite a few comments about English being the dominant one.
To back up your thought... every Civil Service peace officer in Texas is required to take 8 weeks of Spanish once every two years. My own thoughts on that are that Americans are less culture-proud than most of the rest of the world.. given that we only have 340ish years of it ourselves. As mentioned before, English is only the language of commerce now because of the huge influence of the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of the USA in the 20th and 21st (so far) centuries.
Given the current trend in Economics, we should all be practicing Mandarin.
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as a father who is raising our kids to understand that words are merely words, and that some are extremely offensive to others, and to have both the maturity and restraint to know WHEN such cases apply
It's really nice to know there are still parents out there who think like I do and believe it's the responsibility of the parents to teach and or protect their children. Unfortunately, we're in a sad minority on those views. It's too easy to make children, then let the schools and the TV babysit them... practically effortless.
I don't think I want my children "numbed" by shows that use profanity as it there were no tomorrow, so we don't let them watch shows like The Sopranos, rather than complain to HBO about it.
TV is a fairly decent tool for recreation, but shouldn't be a medium where kids spend all their free time, wether it be watching Nickelodeon, the Science Channel, or playing a PS2 game. Unfortunately, a good number of parents would rather let their kids stare glassy eyed at the TV rather than expend the energy it takes to spend time with them.
Actually, cell phones have been around since 1947, and the ones in the early sixties took up the whole trunk of a car.
I hear ya, but I think what I was trying to convey, though didn't come out and say it, is who decides wether the violence is senseless or not?
In The Passion of the Christ, some argue that it's more violent than they believe actually happened. In other recent movies, maybe the violence makes sense to others.
In reality, movies are a prime example of capitalism at work.... you voice your opinion by either being part of the gross revenue or not. Personally, that's where I think the complaints about violence ought to stay.
Whoops, there was supposed to be an HREF in there.
Yeah, but it hasn't stopped folks from spending their money on violent movies. It's amazing how much the Passion of the Christ has made, and I'd assume quite a bit from the conservative folks who complain loudly about movie/game violence.
Shhhhhh... don't tell them that! When the blue haired grandmothers that need nothing more than e-mail machines stop buying high end processors, the money will dry up for R&D at Intel/AMD. Then folks like us will have to pay even more for upgrades!
That was discussed on BUGTRAQ over the last week or so. Seems just adding a *.*+ would relieve the problem, as any files in .ZIP archives that are password protected have that + on the end of them.
Good point, though I'm pretty sure most people I know (in the states or otherwise) would always like to do a little better than they are at the time.
However, the American way seems to be "collect what you can, and stay with/ahead of your neighbor." If the commercials on TV show you a life of luxury, but you realize with your education level you're destined for a life with cars that break down (if you can afford a car at all) and a dwelling in a bad part of town, then it's got to be tempting to look at alternative means of income. Just my $0.02.
Why is this insightful?
The buggy whip manufacturers didn't see their jobs being outsourced to other countries. Rather, they say their industry evolve or sink, based on other local companies taking over.
Bad analogy.
i would be flabbergasted if those compaqs are made in america
Not so interestingly enough, they shut down the assembly plant in Cypress (near Houston), and their pc's are made in Thailand. Their servers are still assembled in Tomball (also near Houston). I don't know of any plans by them to ship that out of the US, but these days you never know.
Hmmm... people managing or person managing?
On every project I work on for MegaHuge Chemical Company I typically am on a development team of 4-10, and always have one manager.
I think most people posting here realize that the management portion of the outsourcing stays stateside. It's the fact that most people in IT aren't managers, and there isn't a huge hiring frenzy for IT managers because of the outsourcing of programming positions.
Except it has absolutely nothing to do with who is best, rather it has everything to do with who is cheaper. You really don't see any outsourcing of US IT jobs to England, Germany, Japan, etc... You see them going to India, China, Lithuania, etc... (no offense to residents of those countries) because people will simply work for less income than in the US.
In the US, a lot of the people that sell drugs do it as a means to make lots of money... mainly because they feel they have no other means. Many high school dropouts, etc... What are they going to do to pay off the fines? Work at McDonald's? No, they'll go back to selling drugs, only this time in larger quantities to pay off the fines, and using their "experience" to keep from getting caught a second time.
Actually, no. Napster checks to see if the MS DRM is installed and configured correctly, or it won't let you download the tune.
iintegration with portable devices must play a key role in the download volume
Forget that.. it's the fact that Napster forces use of the MS DRM that keeps me from using it.
While I agree that the methodology appears flawed, there's one point to throwing out worms when conducting a security survey. A NIMDA and SLAMMER weren't designed to steal credit card or other personal information, they were nuisances. While they can be categorized as security breaches, they're not the kind of security breach that leads to identity or monetary theft. My guess is that's what this survey was aiming at.
The company I write HR software for uses CareerBuilder.com, but adds to that a program called RecruitSoft. So if you follow the ad in CareerBuilder, you go to another website. There you fill out more forms and answer questions, and you're graded BY THE SYSTEM. I have personally pointed out a few times where a qualified candidate didn't even get considered because the information was incomplete (maybe the candidate's fault, maybe fault of the system). Evil I tell you.
With regard to the usefullness of online job boards, I'll say this. Most of the "positions" I find on them are really generic postings by the headhunters anyway, who simply want to get your resume on file so they can call you if something does come up. It's slightly helpful, but rarely to actual companies post to them.
I'll have to do the same, thanks for the info. And I agree with you wholeheartedly... with a movie of that caliber, you'd think there'd be some directors cuts, actor/actress interviews, and though I can't imagine it, bloopers would be fun. But at least no trailers. Weird format.
Maybe this is a little offtopic, but my fiance and I finally broke down and bought Goodfellas. It completely shocked us that it not only didn't force you to watch any trailers at the start of the DVD, but it didn't have any. Once the DVD was spinning, the movie started (which was actually a little annoying too).
Sounds like you did more research than I did... all I read was a summary of the filing. 4.8 is an astonishing amount of cash... I'd love to know (this time I searched more and couldn't find it) what Apple's annual payroll and fixed expenses are. I'm sure they're far less than the 4.8, leaving Apple in a bad tax/finance situation, but a great position for spending on things like R&D, ramping up development, etc...
That would be a different story, as $3BB is a hefty amount of cash. However, out of that comes things like salaries, bulk payments to health care providers, lease on office space (if they don't own their building), federal filings, etc...
Given all of that, it's probably still a hefty chunk of change and leaves them in a nice position for marketing and/or R&D.
Sorry... I snagged that off of the following...
Apple has $4.8 billion in total assets
Apple has $4.8 billion in total assets
Total assets are a far cry from cash, and include land/improvements, office equipment, machinery, etc... as well as cash. Also included would be investments in other companies, which Apple has been known to do.
Just a quick correction (not a Troll... I'm glad they're doing well)...
Also noted in the memo is that Apple has $4.8 billion in the bank at this time.
and
Apple has $4.8 billion in total assets
Are not synonymous. Assets include buildings, machinery, office equipment, which I'm sure Apple has laying around somewhere...
so it seems that some day we might all need a little Spanish.
Interesting you say that, given all the commentary regarding a move to more unified language(s), and quite a few comments about English being the dominant one.
To back up your thought... every Civil Service peace officer in Texas is required to take 8 weeks of Spanish once every two years. My own thoughts on that are that Americans are less culture-proud than most of the rest of the world.. given that we only have 340ish years of it ourselves. As mentioned before, English is only the language of commerce now because of the huge influence of the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of the USA in the 20th and 21st (so far) centuries.
Given the current trend in Economics, we should all be practicing Mandarin.