How about by adding a large enough fudge factor so that when the incomprehensible inevitably happens they don't go broke. This love affair with risk models breeds a banking industry with no room for error.
The biggest threat to our economy is leveraged speculation. Taking out a loan for the purpose of speculation serves no purpose except to extract wealth from other members of society and raise the interest burden of everyone.
I'm not saying all debt is bad, and there are probably other issues that will need to be dealt with eventually.
Just that for example buying a house hoping to profit from it based solely on the expectation that another sucker will want to do the same a year from now, leads to grossly inflated prices and a mountain of debt that can never be repaid.
Eventually all such ponzi investment schemes will collapse.
if you get a copy of my schematic and build the actual circuit
Wouldn't that be a derivative work? I mean it might not be if you followed a carefully monitored clean room reverse engineering process. But if you did literally take the schematic and build the circuit, wouldn't that be derivative?
Tell me about it. For those who haven't bothered to read to the end of the series yet, there's a world changing event that harnesses so much magical energy that every magic user on the planet can sense it. It starts at the end of one book, and finishes at the start of the book *after* the next book. The book in the middle reads like "where were you when Kennedy was shot", tracing through the lives of every major character in excruciating detail during the couple of hours or so that this event occurred.
Speaking of function, for god's sake don't combine the stop and refresh buttons. Or add a sufficient delay and animation when the button transitions from one action to the other so you dont accidently hit refresh when you intended to cancel the page load but it finished just before you clicked.
On Windows / NTFS, subversion creates so many small files that are nearly identical between branches that there must be a better way to handle a local copy of the repo.
Personally I'd like to see someone write a file system driver to handle work folders. So you can browse into the repository and make changes to files without having to store a complete copy of each file for each cheap copy in the repository.
I heard a rumour that the primary driver for the development of the ribbon was to sweep away the crufty code of the old menu driven interface. I did something similar with an application I am maintaining. After sweeping away the old navigation interface and building a new one the application runs a lot faster and takes about 5% of the time to compile.
But then there are companies like canon who have not released any drivers for 64-bit windows. If you default to 64-bit, you may get a number of angry customers.
And what about the rest of the world? Battle.net on Warcraft III had a really high latency in Australia, most of the games I played were either on a LAN or solo when that game came out.
The scanning process Google use takes an image of the book from multiple angles, then they flatten out the image mathematically. But I doubt they are using off the shelf scanners to do it.
Bingo. I mean seriously, if you want a standard file format that contains all the things they want, just use a standard archive format and change the file extension and first four bytes. Then specify the supported naming conventions and file formats for everything in it. Let anyone create these files with just a bog standard archiving program if they want to.
When americans were on average spending $1.30 for each $1.00 they earn, if you lot weren't living beyond your means you wouldn't have needed to borrow all that money... And if you weren't borrowing all that money you couldn't have lived beyond your means.
Though I do think we need a better valuation test for the security value of an asset. Something like min(market value * 85%, income potential over N years). eg cap the value of a mortgage at say the value of 10 years of rent on a house.
If there's a bubble in housing prices, the bank shouldn't be able to lend more than you could pay off with only rental income.
Sure it does. Consider the following; Flash has 512K blocks that must be erased as a unit. Hard drives write in 4K blocks. A 512K block has been filled, and the OS then re-writes over some of those blocks. Now they can't be overwritten in place, they are instead remapped to another empty block. So now the first filled block has an empty hole in it that the SSD knows about, but can't use until the rest of the 512K block has been relocated.
Sounds a bit like generational garbage collection to me.
I had a rootkit on my win xp64 box that was randomly redirecting google search results. It seemed to be screwing around with the http request at a network level and had some other side effects. Whatever it was doing was confusing steam so much it refused to update any game content.
If you had the same or similar infection, but the web server it was redirecting to wasn't listening anymore you might get a connection reset instead of the search page full of adds I was getting.
Apart from the bizarre network traffic, the only clue I found to indicate that had an infection was by virus scanning a system restore point. None of the A/V systems I pointed at the disk could see it directly. I didn't manage to reboot into a live CD that could read my disk configuration so I ended up just reinstalling.
For a small trusted business, create a desktop administrator user that everyone knows the password for. That way you're not running your desktop as admin, but you can still install programs by using "Run As..." from the context menu. Though it won't help if your users will install just about anything...
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How about by adding a large enough fudge factor so that when the incomprehensible inevitably happens they don't go broke. This love affair with risk models breeds a banking industry with no room for error.
The biggest threat to our economy is leveraged speculation. Taking out a loan for the purpose of speculation serves no purpose except to extract wealth from other members of society and raise the interest burden of everyone.
I'm not saying all debt is bad, and there are probably other issues that will need to be dealt with eventually.
Just that for example buying a house hoping to profit from it based solely on the expectation that another sucker will want to do the same a year from now, leads to grossly inflated prices and a mountain of debt that can never be repaid.
Eventually all such ponzi investment schemes will collapse.
Beware the vast malware repository of a woman scorned...
Homer: "And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker."
if you get a copy of my schematic and build the actual circuit
Wouldn't that be a derivative work? I mean it might not be if you followed a carefully monitored clean room reverse engineering process. But if you did literally take the schematic and build the circuit, wouldn't that be derivative?
Tell me about it. For those who haven't bothered to read to the end of the series yet, there's a world changing event that harnesses so much magical energy that every magic user on the planet can sense it. It starts at the end of one book, and finishes at the start of the book *after* the next book. The book in the middle reads like "where were you when Kennedy was shot", tracing through the lives of every major character in excruciating detail during the couple of hours or so that this event occurred.
Speaking of function, for god's sake don't combine the stop and refresh buttons. Or add a sufficient delay and animation when the button transitions from one action to the other so you dont accidently hit refresh when you intended to cancel the page load but it finished just before you clicked.
On Windows / NTFS, subversion creates so many small files that are nearly identical between branches that there must be a better way to handle a local copy of the repo.
Personally I'd like to see someone write a file system driver to handle work folders. So you can browse into the repository and make changes to files without having to store a complete copy of each file for each cheap copy in the repository.
I heard a rumour that the primary driver for the development of the ribbon was to sweep away the crufty code of the old menu driven interface. I did something similar with an application I am maintaining. After sweeping away the old navigation interface and building a new one the application runs a lot faster and takes about 5% of the time to compile.
Obscure? Legacy? Try any canon printer.
But then there are companies like canon who have not released any drivers for 64-bit windows. If you default to 64-bit, you may get a number of angry customers.
Even if you setup gmail for your domain and pointed the MX record directly to google's servers?
And what about the rest of the world? Battle.net on Warcraft III had a really high latency in Australia, most of the games I played were either on a LAN or solo when that game came out.
Most of your budget would be blown in meetings to finalise their requirements.
The scanning process Google use takes an image of the book from multiple angles, then they flatten out the image mathematically. But I doubt they are using off the shelf scanners to do it.
Bingo. I mean seriously, if you want a standard file format that contains all the things they want, just use a standard archive format and change the file extension and first four bytes. Then specify the supported naming conventions and file formats for everything in it. Let anyone create these files with just a bog standard archiving program if they want to.
It was *leveraging* more shit.
You say potato, I say potatoe...
When americans were on average spending $1.30 for each $1.00 they earn, if you lot weren't living beyond your means you wouldn't have needed to borrow all that money... And if you weren't borrowing all that money you couldn't have lived beyond your means.
Though I do think we need a better valuation test for the security value of an asset. Something like min(market value * 85%, income potential over N years). eg cap the value of a mortgage at say the value of 10 years of rent on a house.
If there's a bubble in housing prices, the bank shouldn't be able to lend more than you could pay off with only rental income.
Sure it does. Consider the following; Flash has 512K blocks that must be erased as a unit. Hard drives write in 4K blocks. A 512K block has been filled, and the OS then re-writes over some of those blocks. Now they can't be overwritten in place, they are instead remapped to another empty block. So now the first filled block has an empty hole in it that the SSD knows about, but can't use until the rest of the 512K block has been relocated.
Sounds a bit like generational garbage collection to me.
There's a liquor shop in Australia with a sign something like "If you look like you might be under 25 we have to ask for ID, take it as a compliment."
Shut up Fry. You can bite my shiny metal ass.
I had a rootkit on my win xp64 box that was randomly redirecting google search results. It seemed to be screwing around with the http request at a network level and had some other side effects. Whatever it was doing was confusing steam so much it refused to update any game content.
If you had the same or similar infection, but the web server it was redirecting to wasn't listening anymore you might get a connection reset instead of the search page full of adds I was getting.
Apart from the bizarre network traffic, the only clue I found to indicate that had an infection was by virus scanning a system restore point. None of the A/V systems I pointed at the disk could see it directly. I didn't manage to reboot into a live CD that could read my disk configuration so I ended up just reinstalling.
A power user is an administrator who hasn't bothered to elevate their privileges yet...
For a small trusted business, create a desktop administrator user that everyone knows the password for. That way you're not running your desktop as admin, but you can still install programs by using "Run As..." from the context menu. Though it won't help if your users will install just about anything...
Oblig XKCD.