The accent I had the toughest time with in college was a professor with a thick Greek accent.
I grew up in an area with some old "german" farmers - probably spoke mainly german in their homes while growing up - and the differences in the tempos of their speech and the greek was difficult to get past.
Browser statistics and OS statistics are two different things. For one thing, mozilla for example is 99.9% compatible with anything on the web
The only problem that keeps me from rolling it out where I work is that some of the things that we require need IE. It's a bummer, but that's the way that they're designed.
Always do try to push the vendors in the right direction. Now, if we could get our core system to run on Linux, I'd be very happy.
Russia is more of a kleptocracy than the USA. If you (as an average citizen) can't bribe your way out of trouble with [insert authority here] than you really don't have a kleptocracy.
The USA resembles Sweden or Finland more than that - a central nanny-state trying to get their hands into everything to "help".
I'm working on a machine and ran Spybot first and killed a bunch of stuff. Then I ran AdAware and it found 2 bad running processes that SpyBot didn't kill.
I agree that both must be used to catch everything - and the corallary - Run both on all of the user profiles on a given machine
All the Iowa law was good for was for our Attorney General to get face time on TV. He's never met a class action law suit that he didn't jump on (Microsoft, tobacco,...) - he appears to mainly want to be seen doing something as opposed to doing something worthwhile like stomping on METH.
I hear that - and try not to think about hot dogs.
More intriguing is the use of manure. Cattle are not raised in confinement so much yet, but hogs are. Some of the confinement sites in Iowa make as much waste as small cities - and the biggest problem with it is that you need to plan to get rid of it. They make so much waste in such a small place that it becomes a problem (both ecologically and "smellologicallY").
If that manure can easily be converted into oil - that solves 3 problems very easily (excess manure running off into streams and creeks, smell, fuel).
Also, if the cow gets 100J of energy from grass, and humans get 10J from the cow - wouldn't it be nice to convert some of the rest of the cow (the waste into other forms of energy for us to use?
I find it very disturbing how little value people give to life.
If you're going to slaughter the animal anyway for food, wouldn't it be best to use whatever is left over in any way possible? I think that just using part of the animal and throwing the rest out is wasteful and more disrespectful than converting it into another use!
If we were to develop those resources, get rid of the stupid EPA's '8 different types of gas' rules, and build more refineries, then the prices would drop back down.
Gotta like it when you can take a commidity (gasoline) and make it into a "designer blend". When that can be done (to any commodity), the producers of the designer blend can make profits through manufactured scarcity.
The problem is that alcohol is not as efficient as gasoline when used as a combustion fuel. If you'll recall the "gasohol" stuff that was produced in the 70's, it barely dented gas consumption and was eventually scrapped.
That's not entirely true - it's still available at almost all gas stations in the midwest.
I agree there - they act as a bank in that they hold funds and pay interest (through a mutual fund). They should abide by Reg E for electronic funds transfer, as well as the rest of the regulations that all other banks operate under.
That wouldn't stop the bitching, though. From what it sounds like, much of what is going on is PayPal's attempts to stop money laundering and perceived fraud. Sounds like they could make a better effort at investigating disputes.
I've got one that I wrote for my job. It's not too complicated - just keeps some "project master" data (title, description, inception and completion dates), categories, keywords, and project history.
I can search by keyword (my term for "miscellaneous short free text field"), category/subcategory, "open" projects and the like.
It's real nice for tracking small projects with small numbers of people working on them - makes for a good "working memory" of what you've done to solve problems in the past. Note sure how well it would scale up.
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Actually, the place where I work (I work for a large, high-traffic porn site).... I'm glad that I can still use Linux, as it's the best operating system for serving up obscene volumes of multimedia content over the web.
Or volumes of obscene multimedia content over the web.
No I don't, but I also don't think that if corporate taxes go to 0% that we would see price cuts either.
In the last couple of years, we've been in an environment where most businesses have had no pricing power - near 0% inflation has made it so that no one could raise prices.
Now that the economy is starting to pick back up, prices will be easier to raise and I suspsect that most companies will be passing on the increased taxes of the last couple of years (you don't think that the states have been sitting idly by, do you?) on to consumers.
I think that a close to ideal tax structure (at least for businesses) would be a sales tax - that way everyone would be up front about what the government gets.
I'm now paying monthly for other people to have number portability. This seems akin to having a monthly charge on my bank account for other people to use non-network ATMs. I don't like paying for non-network ATMs, so I don't use them. Similarly, I don't like paying to move to a new network, so I don't do it.
Are you sure that you're paying for other people to use non-networked ATM's? Many times the owner of the ATM has a surcharge (to pay for the ATM) and your bank will have a fee for using ATMs out of the network - something that is directly proportional to your usage.
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I grew up in an area with some old "german" farmers - probably spoke mainly german in their homes while growing up - and the differences in the tempos of their speech and the greek was difficult to get past.
That's a Big 10 school for you!
I meant shot as in about three horse pills - not in the literal sense of the word - meant no confusion.
Seriously though, I have a heart murmur and am required to take a good shot of penicillin before visiting the dentist for that very concern.
The only problem that keeps me from rolling it out where I work is that some of the things that we require need IE. It's a bummer, but that's the way that they're designed.
Always do try to push the vendors in the right direction. Now, if we could get our core system to run on Linux, I'd be very happy.
The USA resembles Sweden or Finland more than that - a central nanny-state trying to get their hands into everything to "help".
Anything that requires a third party application to remove is a virus (OS notwithstanding)
Consumers would need to sue for unauthorized use of their systems or something along those lines.
I agree that both must be used to catch everything - and the corallary - Run both on all of the user profiles on a given machine
All the Iowa law was good for was for our Attorney General to get face time on TV. He's never met a class action law suit that he didn't jump on (Microsoft, tobacco, ...) - he appears to mainly want to be seen doing something as opposed to doing something worthwhile like stomping on METH.
Anything that tries to trick a user into downloading and installing it is crap and shouldn't be tolerated.
More intriguing is the use of manure. Cattle are not raised in confinement so much yet, but hogs are. Some of the confinement sites in Iowa make as much waste as small cities - and the biggest problem with it is that you need to plan to get rid of it. They make so much waste in such a small place that it becomes a problem (both ecologically and "smellologicallY").
If that manure can easily be converted into oil - that solves 3 problems very easily (excess manure running off into streams and creeks, smell, fuel).
Also, if the cow gets 100J of energy from grass, and humans get 10J from the cow - wouldn't it be nice to convert some of the rest of the cow (the waste into other forms of energy for us to use?
If you're going to slaughter the animal anyway for food, wouldn't it be best to use whatever is left over in any way possible? I think that just using part of the animal and throwing the rest out is wasteful and more disrespectful than converting it into another use!
Gotta like it when you can take a commidity (gasoline) and make it into a "designer blend". When that can be done (to any commodity), the producers of the designer blend can make profits through manufactured scarcity.
That's not entirely true - it's still available at almost all gas stations in the midwest.
That wouldn't stop the bitching, though. From what it sounds like, much of what is going on is PayPal's attempts to stop money laundering and perceived fraud. Sounds like they could make a better effort at investigating disputes.
I can search by keyword (my term for "miscellaneous short free text field"), category/subcategory, "open" projects and the like.
It's real nice for tracking small projects with small numbers of people working on them - makes for a good "working memory" of what you've done to solve problems in the past. Note sure how well it would scale up.
Or volumes of obscene multimedia content over the web.
You didn't actually think that you'd get to retire by 70, now did you?
By the same token, one doesn't make hay out of brown grass - that would be straw. Not good for cattle to consume, just for bedding....
I agree that that's not right, but where a business can pass on taxes like that, they will.
There are no taxes on business - only consumers.
In the last couple of years, we've been in an environment where most businesses have had no pricing power - near 0% inflation has made it so that no one could raise prices.
Now that the economy is starting to pick back up, prices will be easier to raise and I suspsect that most companies will be passing on the increased taxes of the last couple of years (you don't think that the states have been sitting idly by, do you?) on to consumers.
I think that a close to ideal tax structure (at least for businesses) would be a sales tax - that way everyone would be up front about what the government gets.
Are you sure that you're paying for other people to use non-networked ATM's? Many times the owner of the ATM has a surcharge (to pay for the ATM) and your bank will have a fee for using ATMs out of the network - something that is directly proportional to your usage.
There are no taxes on businesses - All taxes are passed on to their customers. Telecoms just are kind enough to itemize it.