Actually the energy industrry HATES cheap oil. If supply goes up, prices go down, quantity demanded goes up (but not enough to offset the difference), total profits will be lowered in the industry.
It will be good for any company that owns the fields. It would be good for energy consumers. It would be terrible for bush's "oil buddies in Texas.
Bush's oil buddies would like nothing more than the oil fields to be lit on fire and emptied (from a financial point of view). Then they would make A LOT of money due the short term inelasticity of oil-based energy.
I think our reasons include: * Not wanting Saddam to get WMDs * Wanting to cut off the money flow to terrorists * Wanting to liberate the Iraqi people * Wanting to handle saddam now before he gets enough weapons to try calling himself king the middle east and try to take over his neighbore's again.
Some less than noble reasons: * Cheaper oil helping the entire world economy. * Corporate contracts for oil drilling equipment (maybe, we'll find out after the war...) * Free nations in general help the entire world's stability and wealth
But I keep hearing it will help oil companies or Bush's oil buddies. This couldn't be further from the truth since it will actually lower their profits if oil is cheap.
Strange. In St. Louis sprint is just about the only network that isn't shoddy. I guess it just depends on when and how well the tower network was designed in that city. Sprint also has a ton of features no body else offers.
I know of lots of people moving from other carriers to Sprint (including myself soon from at&t), but no one moving away from them. I think it's mostly related to the network quality in that specific area.
They're actually working on some formulations to solve exactly those issues. I'm not actually fimilar with the "diet coke in the back of the fridge" issue.
But with regards to baking, I haven't actually heard any time frame but I would imagine within a year they will have a product you can bake with. The main issue with baking is actually finding a filling agent that has a caking property similar to sugar, not the heat.
Nutrasweet aka Aspartame IS safe. My dad works for the Merisant corporation which makes Equal, the largest consumer of Nutrasweet. If Nutrasweet is not safe, then certainly the solution to the problem will be darwinism. My dad and all of the other executives drink the stuff with every beverage. If they're at a restaurant that doesn't have Nutrasweet, they request it, and so on. All of the studies have shown there is no link to aspartame and any problems, and it has been one of the most studied substances on the planet. Something like 7000 studies I believe. And Merisant is NOT paying anybody off.
As far as "Formaldehyde and Methanol" being such a problem, let me remind you that an eating an apple releases much more methanol into your system than the equal in your tea.
And actually for the most part I think ADD and ADHD are just names for normal kids who want to sedate for our instutitional learning facilities (I do believe there are some true cases, but the vast majority).
This is all state level stuff right? So this doesn't even include city and county taxes that go to schools?
That's a lot of money per student!
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Your friends should try intstalling some fair queuing in their kernel.
Assuming you have an ethernet adsl modem, when you are uploading you'll fill the sendQ on your modem. When you want send TCP acks for your downloads, it has to wait through that whole queue. If you use something like a bucket filter (I think that's what it's called), you should be able to limit the the outgoing speed on your ethernet card, thus not filling the sendQ, and improving the interactivity.
I'll second this analysis of Asus. I have an Athlon XP 2100+, Asus A7V333 (w/ ATA-RAID, firewire, usb 2, sound). I bought Crucial PC2100 RAM (and accordingly, ran it the PC2100 timings). Run at the default clock speed, the box would hang during linux and windows 2000 boot sequence. To get it to boot, I had to actually underclock my computer by 1mhz. And, I'm using ALL high quality components. But, 1mhz isn't hardly worth RMA'ing things.
Then I STILL had stability problems in X (and windows apps that used 3D.) I had to lower the AGP 'drive' strength from its default settings (and lower than the recommended nvidia settings). And, I had to disable the parallel port to get return to Castle Wolfenstein to not crash (!?).
Now, however, everything is perfectly stable. I've gone upwards of 45days without rebooting, and only then to boot into windows to do stuff.
Well maybe not $10, but now they're down down to about $13 in Real US Dollars. That is, adjusted for inflation. Type 16dollars, year 2001, and year 1992. So they are getting closer..
Are you guys using exchange? If so there is only one message record with many views to the same message... Not nearly as bad as one would think on disk space.
Tetrinet isn't that hard. I can normally win like 1/2 of the time when not playing with cheaters. Personally, now I'm into TetriFAST it's like tetrinet.. only well.. fast (no block delay). The best players can drop like 140ppm(peices per minute) at SNS (Sticks 'n' Squares). I can only do like 80-90 at SNS but I can still win like 1/4th of the time.
IF you want to play tetriNET/FAST on linux see the CVS version of gtetrinet if you want to play on windows check out the original. I normally play on downstack.com
I've been recently trying to make VCDs under linux from some various episodes of Seinfeld. I got the "mvcdencode" program with mplayer to work. But it didn't/really/ work. The lips were desync'd BADLY, the people moved slowly, aspect ratio was weird. I was wondering if anyone had a good program for making VCDs under linux. The current process seems to be:
* decode it using mplayer into raw yuv and pcm audio
* Rescale, framerate the yuv
* encode the raw yuv to mpeg
* encode the pcm to audio mp2
* use mplex to encode audio and video together
* use VCD tools to create.cue and.bin files for cdrdao
Obviously, using this hack of tools leads to the process being very slow and very vulernable to failure since at each step a separate indermediate must be created. Does anyone know of a solution like tmpgenc under windows?
Please tell me you don't have one of those bumper stickers "I'm still with mel." They make me want to throw up. Using someone's death as a method of political compaigning... what a strange concept.
It's worth noting that Mel Carnahan was actually losing in the polls until he died. Some people will do anything to win.;)
I agree. It seems pretty flawed. I'm sure the theory is the number of users rating it will overcome the RIAA's attempt to mark it bad. But, what if the RIAA is the first one to mark it bad? And what if they register 1000s of accounts? It seems to me the answer to this file trust problem is to assign a modified web of trust to people using PGP/GPG keys. Maybe someone will implement it in giFT...
Different codes for taxes and reporting. In the tax system you get to use rapid depreciation rates and such. Typically corporations keep two totally separate set of books for taxes and reporting. So, unfortunately(or is it fortunately since I don't want more taxes), raising taxes would not help.
Tivoli's Software Distribution (now part of the Tivoli Configuration Manager) system works pretty nice. It integrates nicely with Tivoli inventory so you can do things like install a certain software package to all computers with more than 300mhz, 128megs of ram, and windows 2000. It supports checking dll versions, variables, package versioning, and package dependencies.
It even has a "Transactional" system to allow updating of core system files that are locked.
It is also cross-platforms from Windows to Linux to HP-UX to AS400. Pretty much every platform imaginable is supported.
I've been working with it non-stop for the last few weeks and I've been pretty impressed with it.
Oh yeah, and call Maryville Technologies if you need any help designing and implementing Tivoli infrastructure and packages. *shameless plug*
I was wondering if you could give a brief overview of special effects in sound. What is the best for the movie experience? SDDS, DTS, DDSEX, Dolby Digital, Dolby Stereo? Does it really help to go to a theater that is THX certified?
If you look at the other posts, you'll see Salon had 70 million in funding they blew. That's A LOT more than 100k raised by Free Republic. 700 times more. And they had/have ad and subscription revenues. If it shows anything about parties related media, it would mean that the leftist media isn't good at controlling costs. But I would tend to think it's just another dot.bomb.
UHF by Al Yankovic Lyrics: Put down your remote control Throw out your TV Guide Put away your jacket There's no need to go outside Don't you know that we control the horizontal We control the verticle, too We gonna make a couch potato out of you That's what we gonna do now
Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial We got it all on UHF Kick off your sneakers Stick around for a while We got it all on UHF Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
Disconnect the phone and leave the dishes in the sink You better put away your homework Prime time ain't no time to think All you do is make yourself a TV dinner Press your face right up against the screen We gonna show you thangs you ain't ever seen If you know what I mean, now
Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial We got it all on UHF Kick off your sneakers Stick around for a while We got it all on UHF Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
You can watch us all day You can watch us all night You can watch us any time that you please You can sit around and stare at the picture tube 'Till your brain turns into cottage cheese Well, now
Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial We got it all on UHF Kick off your sneakers Stick around for a while We got it all on UHF Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF We got it all on UHF (UHF)
You can also find the song in mp3 on the OpenFT network.
Overall it looks like to me, by the stats, you're best off leaving.
If you have already accepted the job from your new employers, from an ethics stand-point I don't see what choice you have but to leave. It sounds to me like your company is fairly lousy anyway. Cutting your pay because of a "dot com bust" and then when you leave "oh you're worth more than we thought."
If they had to cut pay, how much longer will they stay in business anyway?
And as other posters have mentioned, if you leaving will tend to help your career. You will be in a new environment out side of your norm which will help you achieve new heights. Of course, if you want the norm and the status quo, and don't think your company has been abusing you, you should consider the counter-offer carefully:)
Okay, I agree to that. However, I believe their skills are more rare. Namely, the ability to understand financials, set vision, and manage people is very rare. This is what makes them so expensive.
Business in a capital society isn't about work, it's about scarcity. Teachers could say that engineers are overpaid for their work. Since they put x amount of work into teaching and only get y dollars. Engineers put x amount of work and get z dollars because the engineers are more scarce (at least in certain fields).
In the case of a Bad CEO paid insane amounts of money, that's a failed investment. The board decided that CEO was going to make or save them a certain amount of money and they bet wrong.
Why is this so difficult for people to comprehend? Why do they continually whine about how much CEOs are paid. They are paid that because they are scarce. In general, they're the best business men in the world. Why is it shocking they're paid so much?
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Actually the energy industrry HATES cheap oil. If supply goes up, prices go down, quantity demanded goes up (but not enough to offset the difference), total profits will be lowered in the industry.
It will be good for any company that owns the fields. It would be good for energy consumers. It would be terrible for bush's "oil buddies in Texas.
Bush's oil buddies would like nothing more than the oil fields to be lit on fire and emptied (from a financial point of view). Then they would make A LOT of money due the short term inelasticity of oil-based energy.
I think our reasons include:
* Not wanting Saddam to get WMDs
* Wanting to cut off the money flow to terrorists
* Wanting to liberate the Iraqi people
* Wanting to handle saddam now before he gets enough weapons to try calling himself king the middle east and try to take over his neighbore's again.
Some less than noble reasons:
* Cheaper oil helping the entire world economy.
* Corporate contracts for oil drilling equipment (maybe, we'll find out after the war...)
* Free nations in general help the entire world's stability and wealth
But I keep hearing it will help oil companies or Bush's oil buddies. This couldn't be further from the truth since it will actually lower their profits if oil is cheap.
Strange. In St. Louis sprint is just about the only network that isn't shoddy. I guess it just depends on when and how well the tower network was designed in that city. Sprint also has a ton of features no body else offers.
I know of lots of people moving from other carriers to Sprint (including myself soon from at&t), but no one moving away from them. I think it's mostly related to the network quality in that specific area.
Ian
They're actually working on some formulations to solve exactly those issues. I'm not actually fimilar with the "diet coke in the back of the fridge" issue.
But with regards to baking, I haven't actually heard any time frame but I would imagine within a year they will have a product you can bake with. The main issue with baking is actually finding a filling agent that has a caking property similar to sugar, not the heat.
Nutrasweet aka Aspartame IS safe. My dad works for the Merisant corporation which makes Equal, the largest consumer of Nutrasweet. If Nutrasweet is not safe, then certainly the solution to the problem will be darwinism. My dad and all of the other executives drink the stuff with every beverage. If they're at a restaurant that doesn't have Nutrasweet, they request it, and so on. All of the studies have shown there is no link to aspartame and any problems, and it has been one of the most studied substances on the planet. Something like 7000 studies I believe. And Merisant is NOT paying anybody off.
As far as "Formaldehyde and Methanol" being such a problem, let me remind you that an eating an apple releases much more methanol into your system than the equal in your tea.
And actually for the most part I think ADD and ADHD are just names for normal kids who want to sedate for our instutitional learning facilities (I do believe there are some true cases, but the vast majority).
I just thought I would point that if you're using GNOME2 you're not using unstable. You're using experimental... which really is very unstable :)
Ian
We already have visitors from Christmas of the future here to taunt us with gifts from the future.
Ian
This is all state level stuff right? So this doesn't even include city and county taxes that go to schools?
That's a lot of money per student!
Your friends should try intstalling some fair queuing in their kernel.
Assuming you have an ethernet adsl modem, when you are uploading you'll fill the sendQ on your modem. When you want send TCP acks for your downloads, it has to wait through that whole queue. If you use something like a bucket filter (I think that's what it's called), you should be able to limit the the outgoing speed on your ethernet card, thus not filling the sendQ, and improving the interactivity.
Ian
I'll second this analysis of Asus. I have an Athlon XP 2100+, Asus A7V333 (w/ ATA-RAID, firewire, usb 2, sound). I bought Crucial PC2100 RAM (and accordingly, ran it the PC2100 timings). Run at the default clock speed, the box would hang during linux and windows 2000 boot sequence. To get it to boot, I had to actually underclock my computer by 1mhz. And, I'm using ALL high quality components. But, 1mhz isn't hardly worth RMA'ing things.
Then I STILL had stability problems in X (and windows apps that used 3D.) I had to lower the AGP 'drive' strength from its default settings (and lower than the recommended nvidia settings). And, I had to disable the parallel port to get return to Castle Wolfenstein to not crash (!?).
Now, however, everything is perfectly stable. I've gone upwards of 45days without rebooting, and only then to boot into windows to do stuff.
Ian
Well maybe not $10, but now they're down down to about $13 in Real US Dollars. That is, adjusted for inflation. Type 16dollars, year 2001, and year 1992. So they are getting closer..
How did this get Score: 3 and no moderation type, i.e. no Insightful, Interesting, Underrated... it's just "Score: 3" slashcode bug here?
Are you guys using exchange? If so there is only one message record with many views to the same message... Not nearly as bad as one would think on disk space.
Ian
Tetrinet isn't that hard. I can normally win like 1/2 of the time when not playing with cheaters. Personally, now I'm into TetriFAST it's like tetrinet.. only well.. fast (no block delay). The best players can drop like 140ppm(peices per minute) at SNS (Sticks 'n' Squares). I can only do like 80-90 at SNS but I can still win like 1/4th of the time.
IF you want to play tetriNET/FAST on linux see the CVS version of gtetrinet if you want to play on windows check out the original. I normally play on downstack.com
Ian
I've been recently trying to make VCDs under linux from some various episodes of Seinfeld. I got the "mvcdencode" program with mplayer to work. But it didn't /really/ work. The lips were desync'd BADLY, the people moved slowly, aspect ratio was weird. I was wondering if anyone had a good program for making VCDs under linux. The current process seems to be:
.cue and .bin files for cdrdao
* decode it using mplayer into raw yuv and pcm audio
* Rescale, framerate the yuv
* encode the raw yuv to mpeg
* encode the pcm to audio mp2
* use mplex to encode audio and video together
* use VCD tools to create
Obviously, using this hack of tools leads to the process being very slow and very vulernable to failure since at each step a separate indermediate must be created. Does anyone know of a solution like tmpgenc under windows?
TIA
Please tell me you don't have one of those bumper stickers "I'm still with mel." They make me want to throw up. Using someone's death as a method of political compaigning... what a strange concept.
;)
It's worth noting that Mel Carnahan was actually losing in the polls until he died. Some people will do anything to win.
I agree. It seems pretty flawed. I'm sure the theory is the number of users rating it will overcome the RIAA's attempt to mark it bad. But, what if the RIAA is the first one to mark it bad? And what if they register 1000s of accounts? It seems to me the answer to this file trust problem is to assign a modified web of trust to people using PGP/GPG keys. Maybe someone will implement it in giFT...
Ian
Different codes for taxes and reporting. In the tax system you get to use rapid depreciation rates and such. Typically corporations keep two totally separate set of books for taxes and reporting. So, unfortunately(or is it fortunately since I don't want more taxes), raising taxes would not help.
Ian
Tivoli's Software Distribution (now part of the Tivoli Configuration Manager) system works pretty nice. It integrates nicely with Tivoli inventory so you can do things like install a certain software package to all computers with more than 300mhz, 128megs of ram, and windows 2000. It supports checking dll versions, variables, package versioning, and package dependencies.
It even has a "Transactional" system to allow updating of core system files that are locked.
It is also cross-platforms from Windows to Linux to HP-UX to AS400. Pretty much every platform imaginable is supported.
I've been working with it non-stop for the last few weeks and I've been pretty impressed with it.
Oh yeah, and call Maryville Technologies if you need any help designing and implementing Tivoli infrastructure and packages. *shameless plug*
Ian
I was wondering if you could give a brief overview of special effects in sound. What is the best for the movie experience? SDDS, DTS, DDSEX, Dolby Digital, Dolby Stereo? Does it really help to go to a theater that is THX certified?
Thanks,
Ian
If you look at the other posts, you'll see Salon had 70 million in funding they blew. That's A LOT more than 100k raised by Free Republic. 700 times more. And they had/have ad and subscription revenues. If it shows anything about parties related media, it would mean that the leftist media isn't good at controlling costs. But I would tend to think it's just another dot.bomb.
UHF
by Al Yankovic
Lyrics:
Put down your remote control
Throw out your TV Guide
Put away your jacket
There's no need to go outside
Don't you know that we control the horizontal
We control the verticle, too
We gonna make a couch potato out of you
That's what we gonna do now
Don't change the channel
Don't touch that dial
We got it all on UHF
Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while
We got it all on UHF
Don't worry 'bout your laundry
Forget about your job
Just crank up the volume
And yank off the knob
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
Disconnect the phone and leave the dishes in the sink
You better put away your homework
Prime time ain't no time to think
All you do is make yourself a TV dinner
Press your face right up against the screen
We gonna show you thangs you ain't ever seen
If you know what I mean, now
Don't change the channel
Don't touch that dial
We got it all on UHF
Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while
We got it all on UHF
Don't worry 'bout your laundry
Forget about your job
Just crank up the volume
And yank off the knob
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
You can watch us all day
You can watch us all night
You can watch us any time that you please
You can sit around and stare at the picture tube
'Till your brain turns into cottage cheese
Well, now
Don't change the channel
Don't touch that dial
We got it all on UHF
Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while
We got it all on UHF
Don't worry 'bout your laundry
Forget about your job
Just crank up the volume
And yank off the knob
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
We got it all on UHF (UHF)
You can also find the song in mp3 on the OpenFT network.
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Overall it looks like to me, by the stats, you're best off leaving.
If you have already accepted the job from your new employers, from an ethics stand-point I don't see what choice you have but to leave. It sounds to me like your company is fairly lousy anyway. Cutting your pay because of a "dot com bust" and then when you leave "oh you're worth more than we thought."
If they had to cut pay, how much longer will they stay in business anyway?
And as other posters have mentioned, if you leaving will tend to help your career. You will be in a new environment out side of your norm which will help you achieve new heights. Of course, if you want the norm and the status quo, and don't think your company has been abusing you, you should consider the counter-offer carefully
Okay, I agree to that. However, I believe their skills are more rare. Namely, the ability to understand financials, set vision, and manage people is very rare. This is what makes them so expensive.
Business in a capital society isn't about work, it's about scarcity. Teachers could say that engineers are overpaid for their work. Since they put x amount of work into teaching and only get y dollars. Engineers put x amount of work and get z dollars because the engineers are more scarce (at least in certain fields).
In the case of a Bad CEO paid insane amounts of money, that's a failed investment. The board decided that CEO was going to make or save them a certain amount of money and they bet wrong.
Therefore, good CEOs are worth a lot of money.
Why is this so difficult for people to comprehend? Why do they continually whine about how much CEOs are paid. They are paid that because they are scarce. In general, they're the best business men in the world. Why is it shocking they're paid so much?
Wow are you actually the Real Action Item Man ?
;)