Did you get this from actual households, or did you just hear it on FOX news?
Well, the federal reservefederal reserve actually, but I suppose FOX news could cite them too, hence your confusion.
I agree SCO employees may find it hard getting out, but I disagree they have nad no chance (how long has the SCO saga been running?) to escape or that ethics doesn't matter. Don't agree with Iraq but you're mentioning that is OT and a poor analogy (good to remove Sadam and establish a non-totalitarian regime but way bad to money-grub and try to hang on to power after doing that).
You may not like to "pick and choose where we want to apply ethics" but I try to do my best.
SCO employment figures: this is tertiary regarding those layed off; perhaps you'd like to read the latest 10K.
Consumer debt is a record high... well duh! Debt is a level, and any level should increase over time while the ecnomy grows and inflation is positive. You really get 100% there! The balance of payments is an accounting identity - US concumers are benefitting from cheap imports so money flows out of the country... cheaper goods and services means more can be consumed (good for the consumer) while money flowing out of the country means the US dollar becomes more competitive (falls in the value of the dollar over the past 9 months). GDP numbers for the last few quarters have been very encouraging with excellent production in goods (non-durables and durables alike) and services.
Please explain, to my naive ears, what makes a good economy. No bullshit please, list facts, not supposition.
3. Nice variation on your username, but you are one of the worst trolls/. has ever seen. Something interesting from you would be... unexpected. Try being less... dull.
The economy most certainly does not suck. These are not the dot com days, but that was fantasy land anyway and best not returned to (it will only cause another crash). Non-farm payrolls today were excellent, the unemployment remains at 5.7% (low), interest rates are low and rises over the next two years will be gradual and low in historical terms. The household balance sheet is robust, consumer spending reasonable and corporate investment good. Successful global trade has the benefit of keeping prices of goods and services down allowing income to be spent on even more.
The economy most certainly does not suck.
Besides, a company losing 10% of its ~270 employees is less than the local fast food store going out of business... at least the employees of the local fast food joint had more belief in what they were doing - any SCO employee with ethics would have got out far sooner.
You're talking out your ass. DVDs in China and Russia are usually cheaper than those in Canada and Japan (for example). Fact.
Like the parent post said, the companies will try to profit maximise. The (opportunity) cost of a guy going to China to get his legit cheaper copies is small compared to the extra revenue and marginal profit cheaper copies get in target markets. As an even earlier post said, the companies will also use time to their advantage - most expensive on immediate release to get the avid fans, then a bit cheaper to get regular fans, then cheaper to get less diehard fans, etc. In HK, for example, the latest DVDs cost around US$10, then drop to US$7 after a couple of months, then drop to US$5 after a couple more months, then cost US$3 on _legit_ VCD, the bootleggers are still cheaper at about US$1.5 per DVD or VCD pair, and sooner with the cheap price, but dropping price and choosing price for the location and time after release makes a lot of sence. What they lose from 'leakage' is small, and remember if you buy a (legit) cheap DVD abroad you may still have to declare it on reentry to your home country.
The one page write up doesn't describe how they know the detector works, but I'm sure they have _some_ means of testing that it does.
Sure they do... the system has a green light on. If the red light were on it would be on standby and no light may mean there is no power, or the light is broken. But as long s the green light is on they know it's working.
Surely everyone knows that. Now please increase my grant.
Not really. The beauty of doing it from home is the clicks are distributed, the greatness of using people is their inherant unpredictability - they will click through. COmpanies that pay-per-click use sophisticated analysis to work out what is a script (and happily withhold payment if they think one is being used) - if you work out a truely undpredictable script that is intuitive enough to click through or face 'challenges' deliberately put in ads, and implement this on a wide range of IPs then you will have made millions and broken internet advertising as we know it!
Channel 4 is also partially funded by government (not sure if this comes from the licence fee or other source though) so it can make programs which companies may not necessarily like to put adverts in/fund the full whack.
IMHO commercial funding of programming ! (necessarily) = Good programming.
I think it is a fact some programs could never get the commercial funding to cover production costs so (in a purely per-program-profit business model) wouldn't be made, though they may serve to educate, inform and add perspective... TV has a public role, if TV is purely commercially funded TV will act to promote the adverts and no more.
I may go against the sizeable/. groupthink and BT fanboys here, but I think BitTorrent sucks: dependency on a root node, very dodgy load balancing and poor optimisation of bandwidth.
As a proof of concept and way of overcoming leeching it rocked, but it is not a mature P2P app, it is only half-finished...
As for broadcasting BT is in no way suitable. Sure the BBC could solve the root node (going down) problem but if they want to get good throughput on a mass scale just use a broadcast protocal. Even better, team up with ISPs (a la BBC Broadband) and deliver content at ISP node level rather than originate it from their own servers.
Do you think thousands of security pros would look over it? Maybe a handfew from Norton/McAfee, a few from personal interest (just a few mind), some college kids doing a project, some 'blackhats' (not that they'd release anything).
Sure thousands could. Do you think thousands of people (critically) read (and understand) every last line of OO source?
You do it because think it's right. You think it's right because it makes you feel good to do so. It is a self-centred desire. You don't give money to some casuses because that wouldn't make you feel good like other uses of the money do.
Time:
Well, 30 hours in a month saving is hardly an insignificant amount of time, is it?
Time is only equal to money in high-level management
I totally disagree. Time is equal to money for those on the border-line, those who worry about keeping their family in a house, food in their mouths and an education fund for their kids.
Time is not equal to money only for those already in a comfortable position and not wanting any more (the senior management/CEOs etc seem to be 'driven' so although financially secure they want to achieve more).
As for me posting... posting is a time to assess my opinions, get fresh input from others which can help me develop, and input to others - 'charitable' behaviour is the most egotisitcal after all.
No one will pay you for not using the GIMP
They will pay you more per-unit-of-effort for usng PS. THen you will have more units-of-effort to expend on slashdot.
1. In the price comparison I think she's missing one of the major points of the gimp - it's open source.
You may or may not know this, but open source does not mean 'free'. Sure the GIMP is 'free' but open source in no way means it is free.
2. I don't have to shell out some money for paint shop pro...
Time is, literally, money. If you spend 100 hours using the GIMP in a month, but doing the same task in PSP, PS, etc, would take 70 hours you'd have saved 30 hours. In this 30 hours you could could do casual work in the local gas station, bar or mall earning at least mininum wage (say $7ph) which works out as $210 in those 30 hours - that is OPPORTUNITY COST! By buying a product you have made money! Needless to say, if you were a graphic designer or used graphics anywhere near regularly you'd use such a program for more than a month (the opportunity cost of $210 only refers to a month, besides your hourly wage would probably be more the $7ph). A layman using such a program for a year would also save big-time!
That is the meaning of opportunity cost and TCO. You may pay for a product, but if that product is superior you may easily end up saving. Photoshop (and PSP maybe - don't have much eperience with that compared to PS or the GIMP) is a demonstration of that principal.
Yeah... like China is any more free than America. We vote, someone wins - does our vote mean anything at the margin?... no, so as an individual we have no power selecting government. We just get hearded as 2 or 3 heards, in China the shepherd doesn't have to worry.
Such a lack of freedom exists in America too - do you think any and every communication is not monitored? Does what you say matter... not really, the communication path is logged, evidence doesn't matter when there is suspicion and assicoation, you can SSH all you like, but if you've ever emailed Bob and Bob's friend sets off a load of pipe bombs they will be on you, SSH or not.
You have no democratic power. You have no freedom from association. You merely have the ability to exist, do the best you can within your constraints, to herd with others. Same the world over. At least in China they have romanticism of freedom, we are just decieved.
fooled. I don't understand however why they don't have both.
Because Coca-Cola own the franchise for soft drink distribution in these stores (if there is a exclusive distribution agreement) or else there is only enough room for one drinks machine (and boxes of syrup) so the have the one that has the best deal.
Legally (in the UK, don't know about Canada), the outlet have to say 'we don't have X, is Y OK?' but most employees/managers usually can't be bothered.
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Did you get this from actual households, or did you just hear it on FOX news?
Well, the federal reservefederal reserve actually, but I suppose FOX news could cite them too, hence your confusion.
I agree SCO employees may find it hard getting out, but I disagree they have nad no chance (how long has the SCO saga been running?) to escape or that ethics doesn't matter. Don't agree with Iraq but you're mentioning that is OT and a poor analogy (good to remove Sadam and establish a non-totalitarian regime but way bad to money-grub and try to hang on to power after doing that).
You may not like to "pick and choose where we want to apply ethics" but I try to do my best.
Stare my sources?
Unemployment and non-farm payrolls: BLS
SCO employment figures: this is tertiary regarding those layed off; perhaps you'd like to read the latest 10K.
Consumer debt is a record high... well duh! Debt is a level, and any level should increase over time while the ecnomy grows and inflation is positive. You really get 100% there! The balance of payments is an accounting identity - US concumers are benefitting from cheap imports so money flows out of the country... cheaper goods and services means more can be consumed (good for the consumer) while money flowing out of the country means the US dollar becomes more competitive (falls in the value of the dollar over the past 9 months). GDP numbers for the last few quarters have been very encouraging with excellent production in goods (non-durables and durables alike) and services.
Please explain, to my naive ears, what makes a good economy. No bullshit please, list facts, not supposition.
Keep up the good articals, simoniger.
/. has ever seen. Something interesting from you would be... unexpected. Try being less... dull.
1. This was posted by Michael.
2. We're not back to etymology are we?
3. Nice variation on your username, but you are one of the worst trolls
the economy sucks
The economy most certainly does not suck. These are not the dot com days, but that was fantasy land anyway and best not returned to (it will only cause another crash). Non-farm payrolls today were excellent, the unemployment remains at 5.7% (low), interest rates are low and rises over the next two years will be gradual and low in historical terms. The household balance sheet is robust, consumer spending reasonable and corporate investment good. Successful global trade has the benefit of keeping prices of goods and services down allowing income to be spent on even more.
The economy most certainly does not suck.
Besides, a company losing 10% of its ~270 employees is less than the local fast food store going out of business... at least the employees of the local fast food joint had more belief in what they were doing - any SCO employee with ethics would have got out far sooner.
You're talking out your ass. DVDs in China and Russia are usually cheaper than those in Canada and Japan (for example). Fact.
Like the parent post said, the companies will try to profit maximise. The (opportunity) cost of a guy going to China to get his legit cheaper copies is small compared to the extra revenue and marginal profit cheaper copies get in target markets. As an even earlier post said, the companies will also use time to their advantage - most expensive on immediate release to get the avid fans, then a bit cheaper to get regular fans, then cheaper to get less diehard fans, etc. In HK, for example, the latest DVDs cost around US$10, then drop to US$7 after a couple of months, then drop to US$5 after a couple more months, then cost US$3 on _legit_ VCD, the bootleggers are still cheaper at about US$1.5 per DVD or VCD pair, and sooner with the cheap price, but dropping price and choosing price for the location and time after release makes a lot of sence. What they lose from 'leakage' is small, and remember if you buy a (legit) cheap DVD abroad you may still have to declare it on reentry to your home country.
It's an easy test, probably with a pretty strict division into two bell-curves...
They're not bell curves, they're subliminal boobies!
If they didn't have a computer Google would sure take a long time!
The one page write up doesn't describe how they know the detector works, but I'm sure they have _some_ means of testing that it does.
Sure they do... the system has a green light on. If the red light were on it would be on standby and no light may mean there is no power, or the light is broken. But as long s the green light is on they know it's working.
Surely everyone knows that. Now please increase my grant.
Not really. The beauty of doing it from home is the clicks are distributed, the greatness of using people is their inherant unpredictability - they will click through. COmpanies that pay-per-click use sophisticated analysis to work out what is a script (and happily withhold payment if they think one is being used) - if you work out a truely undpredictable script that is intuitive enough to click through or face 'challenges' deliberately put in ads, and implement this on a wide range of IPs then you will have made millions and broken internet advertising as we know it!
Inflation isn't 4% per annum (or even annualised), you know?
Channel 4 is also partially funded by government (not sure if this comes from the licence fee or other source though) so it can make programs which companies may not necessarily like to put adverts in/fund the full whack.
IMHO commercial funding of programming ! (necessarily) = Good programming.
I think it is a fact some programs could never get the commercial funding to cover production costs so (in a purely per-program-profit business model) wouldn't be made, though they may serve to educate, inform and add perspective... TV has a public role, if TV is purely commercially funded TV will act to promote the adverts and no more.
I may go against the sizeable /. groupthink and BT fanboys here, but I think BitTorrent sucks: dependency on a root node, very dodgy load balancing and poor optimisation of bandwidth.
As a proof of concept and way of overcoming leeching it rocked, but it is not a mature P2P app, it is only half-finished...
As for broadcasting BT is in no way suitable. Sure the BBC could solve the root node (going down) problem but if they want to get good throughput on a mass scale just use a broadcast protocal. Even better, team up with ISPs (a la BBC Broadband) and deliver content at ISP node level rather than originate it from their own servers.
They do have an incredibly crap user interface and standards incompiant website though.
Pity their crap website design forces us to trawl through their ego to getto the juice.
Nice idea, pity you let your loud mounths and yahooing get in the way of users getting what they're after, instead of getting down to business.
Do you think thousands of security pros would look over it? Maybe a handfew from Norton/McAfee, a few from personal interest (just a few mind), some college kids doing a project, some 'blackhats' (not that they'd release anything).
Sure thousands could. Do you think thousands of people (critically) read (and understand) every last line of OO source?
Charity:
You do it because think it's right. You think it's right because it makes you feel good to do so. It is a self-centred desire. You don't give money to some casuses because that wouldn't make you feel good like other uses of the money do.
Time:
Well, 30 hours in a month saving is hardly an insignificant amount of time, is it?
Time is only equal to money in high-level management
I totally disagree. Time is equal to money for those on the border-line, those who worry about keeping their family in a house, food in their mouths and an education fund for their kids.
Time is not equal to money only for those already in a comfortable position and not wanting any more (the senior management/CEOs etc seem to be 'driven' so although financially secure they want to achieve more).
As for me posting... posting is a time to assess my opinions, get fresh input from others which can help me develop, and input to others - 'charitable' behaviour is the most egotisitcal after all.
No one will pay you for not using the GIMP
They will pay you more per-unit-of-effort for usng PS. THen you will have more units-of-effort to expend on slashdot.
1. In the price comparison I think she's missing one of the major points of the gimp - it's open source.
You may or may not know this, but open source does not mean 'free'. Sure the GIMP is 'free' but open source in no way means it is free.
2. I don't have to shell out some money for paint shop pro...
Time is, literally, money. If you spend 100 hours using the GIMP in a month, but doing the same task in PSP, PS, etc, would take 70 hours you'd have saved 30 hours. In this 30 hours you could could do casual work in the local gas station, bar or mall earning at least mininum wage (say $7ph) which works out as $210 in those 30 hours - that is OPPORTUNITY COST! By buying a product you have made money! Needless to say, if you were a graphic designer or used graphics anywhere near regularly you'd use such a program for more than a month (the opportunity cost of $210 only refers to a month, besides your hourly wage would probably be more the $7ph). A layman using such a program for a year would also save big-time!
That is the meaning of opportunity cost and TCO. You may pay for a product, but if that product is superior you may easily end up saving. Photoshop (and PSP maybe - don't have much eperience with that compared to PS or the GIMP) is a demonstration of that principal.
Yeah... like China is any more free than America. We vote, someone wins - does our vote mean anything at the margin?... no, so as an individual we have no power selecting government. We just get hearded as 2 or 3 heards, in China the shepherd doesn't have to worry.
Such a lack of freedom exists in America too - do you think any and every communication is not monitored? Does what you say matter... not really, the communication path is logged, evidence doesn't matter when there is suspicion and assicoation, you can SSH all you like, but if you've ever emailed Bob and Bob's friend sets off a load of pipe bombs they will be on you, SSH or not.
You have no democratic power. You have no freedom from association. You merely have the ability to exist, do the best you can within your constraints, to herd with others. Same the world over. At least in China they have romanticism of freedom, we are just decieved.
There was a time. A long time. A long time ago. The boosom of life and the blossom of existance existed. In that time. Time. And again?
That time wore a red hat.
That time was nine.
This is excellent practice - its recursive not iterative. Recursion is superior for many problems.
I prefer free6.
fooled. I don't understand however why they don't have both.
Because Coca-Cola own the franchise for soft drink distribution in these stores (if there is a exclusive distribution agreement) or else there is only enough room for one drinks machine (and boxes of syrup) so the have the one that has the best deal.
Legally (in the UK, don't know about Canada), the outlet have to say 'we don't have X, is Y OK?' but most employees/managers usually can't be bothered.
Most excellent post, sir.
But if you want to look at the effect of a change in breakeven inflation on your diagonal amortisation, the BA II is hard to beat!