Just because you can deactivate the front passenger air bag does not make holding a child in your lap safe. So an airbag breaking the kids neck won't happen in an accident, but the child is very likely to fly out of the parent's arms and smash his/her head on the windshield; That's also assuming the parent is wearing a seatbelt and won't crush the child in an accident.
Just put the kids in the back. And if you really believe putting a child in the back seat is "abandoning", grow some skin will ya. My kids love being in the back and even point out when someone should put on their seat belt.
It's also those same environments that don't give a damn about getting it right as long as they can get it fast. I shouldn't complain, a significant portion of my livlihood comes from quickly made excel/access/VB solutions the business created
As an MBA, I find you comments almost correct. The key distinction is if the MBA also has a BA in business or a technical degree.
I think someone who has technical bachelors and masters degrees is just as limited as someone who has business oriented bachelors and masters degrees. The real key is to have one of each.
So you're saying you don't have a significant amount of deductions?
Don't forget that the person making 40K is also going to have to pay 10-15% of their income for social security and medicare/medicaid. You'll, depending on how much you make, will max out your social security contribution (7.5% I believe but not positive) and from that point on your relative tax rate will go down the more you make.
Also don't forget that someone who is firmly located in that top bracket is also usually earning some sort of income from investments which are taxed at a MUCH lower rate (15%) due to capital gains.
I personally believe that the tax system should be based partially on consumption (which overwhelmingly screws poor people who have a higher propensity to spend) and partially on ability to pay (which screws the wealthy people who have more money/toys/things/crap than they know what to do with). We do after all have the lowest tax rates of any industrialized countries.
As for your comment "why is it based on income rather than strictly merit?" I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say with that statement. How do you measure merit? earning potential or actual earnings? Or do you measure intelligence, or wit, or charisma? I'm confused, please enlighten me.
Isn't the whole point of trademarks to protect similar things from confusing consumers?
You can have Nova the car and Nova the TV show with both being trademarked and neither infringing on the other.
From the article, it makes it sound as if the G-Mail service is a subscription based email notification system for dispensing specialized information to a very small group of people while Gmail is an actual web based general email system being offered from Google.
I don't know, that could confuse people, but I guess the only audience that needs to be considered is the small amount of people that would actually hear about both products.
Great. Posing hypothetical questions and not giving us the answers.
ANSI - 'Hello World'
MySQL - ?????????????
ANSI - Won't insert a value that exceeds datatype specification
MySQL - 'Hell'
Am I right?
Why? All encryption mechanisms (save quantum) can and will eventually be defeated. This has been known for quite some time. Why does this make it a sad day ?
I don't have a problem with most of these development methodologies perse, but most of them seem to lack the entire concept of DATA and INFORMATION.
I haven't read the theoreticals of a lot of these methodologies but have worked in several places that say they practice them. What I've found is a bunch of developers (not saying anything about their programming skills) that don't understand databases or design of data structures. I find it difficult to extend many of these systems that are frankly poorly designed. Do these methodologies include some prep work on gathering business requirements and understanding the underlying information relationships?
An IT manager that doesn't know much but thinks he/she does often doesn't listen to those that do have that knowledge. This is a bad environment and I would suggest exiting the first instance possible (I was there for almost 4 years right as the dot com bust happened and got stuck).
Overall, the only job a manager (ANY manager) has is to remove obstacles to enable his employees to work as efficiently as possible. He doesn't need technical skills to do so as long as he defers to those with more knowledge when important technical decisions need to be made.
I've also found that if a mid level manager has tremendous technical prowess in addition to being a good manager, the higher level managers without so much of either trait become fearful and have a tendancy to eliminate the "competition" leaving nice safe idiots or ineffective managers surrounding themselves. I'm currently in that situation myself.
Honestly, the best book I read that has helped me do very well in interviews is
This.
I've found that asking good questions is a very good way to really leave an impressive impression with an interviewer.
It sounds a whole lot better than this:
Interviewer: Do you have any questions for me?
Me: No. You've answered just about everything I could think of.
It makes you sound uninterested in the job/company/people/etc... that you don't really stand a good chance of getting a job. That's why it took me 7 months to find my last job and only 2 to find my current one.
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I hate to burst your bubble, but depending on the government has nothing to do with red vs. blue counties. It's come down to social and religous (self rightous?) values. An awful lot of those red counties your refer to as "make it a point to try and not have to depend on the goverment" receive an awful lot of subsidies from the goverment and wouldn't be able to survive with their lifestyle without them. Anywhere you see a farmer, you see a welfare recipient (through farming subsidies).
As far as the difference between rural and urban poor, you're going to have a mix of hard working (working poor) and lazy asses wherever you go.
Yes, AMD has a better product in my own opinion than Intel.
Open up the advertising for Best Buy or Circuit City or any other retailer that sells computers. How many of the systems do you see containing AMD chips versus Intel chips? Why is it for every AMD computer I see, I see 10 or 20 Intel computers?
More people ARE buying AMD chips, but AMD is arguing that even MORE people would buy them if Intel wasn't using anti-competetive practices against them.
As a side note: You and your friends are a great and important segment for AMD, yet they really want to be mainstream and they can't quite seem to leap that hurdle
So you're lumping ALL MBA's into one category and ALL programmers into another?
Seems pretty stupid to me.
I'm an MBA and I don't admire people like Bill Gates. I love linux and OSS. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I am a gamer. I'm waiting for the time a few years from now when gaming hits linux full force and I can move completely away from microsoft.
I'm a data architect and have a naturally sceptical mind. I probably swallow less bullshit than you.
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Because they believe that buying politicians is cheaper than the amount of money they'd lose.
Just because you can deactivate the front passenger air bag does not make holding a child in your lap safe. So an airbag breaking the kids neck won't happen in an accident, but the child is very likely to fly out of the parent's arms and smash his/her head on the windshield; That's also assuming the parent is wearing a seatbelt and won't crush the child in an accident.
Just put the kids in the back. And if you really believe putting a child in the back seat is "abandoning", grow some skin will ya. My kids love being in the back and even point out when someone should put on their seat belt.
Or you could create a corporation and have the corporation do the work and whatnot.
It's also those same environments that don't give a damn about getting it right as long as they can get it fast. I shouldn't complain, a significant portion of my livlihood comes from quickly made excel/access/VB solutions the business created
as the child of an electrician, I can relate. getting paid $.05 / pound when your 10 adds up really quick with copper.
As an MBA, I find you comments almost correct. The key distinction is if the MBA also has a BA in business or a technical degree.
I think someone who has technical bachelors and masters degrees is just as limited as someone who has business oriented bachelors and masters degrees. The real key is to have one of each.
but then again I'm a consultant, not a manager
So you're saying you don't have a significant amount of deductions?
Don't forget that the person making 40K is also going to have to pay 10-15% of their income for social security and medicare/medicaid. You'll, depending on how much you make, will max out your social security contribution (7.5% I believe but not positive) and from that point on your relative tax rate will go down the more you make.
Also don't forget that someone who is firmly located in that top bracket is also usually earning some sort of income from investments which are taxed at a MUCH lower rate (15%) due to capital gains.
I personally believe that the tax system should be based partially on consumption (which overwhelmingly screws poor people who have a higher propensity to spend) and partially on ability to pay (which screws the wealthy people who have more money/toys/things/crap than they know what to do with). We do after all have the lowest tax rates of any industrialized countries.
As for your comment "why is it based on income rather than strictly merit?" I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say with that statement. How do you measure merit? earning potential or actual earnings? Or do you measure intelligence, or wit, or charisma? I'm confused, please enlighten me.
It's usually the design, not the application
Isn't the whole point of trademarks to protect similar things from confusing consumers?
You can have Nova the car and Nova the TV show with both being trademarked and neither infringing on the other.
From the article, it makes it sound as if the G-Mail service is a subscription based email notification system for dispensing specialized information to a very small group of people while Gmail is an actual web based general email system being offered from Google.
I don't know, that could confuse people, but I guess the only audience that needs to be considered is the small amount of people that would actually hear about both products.
Seems like a crap shoot to me
Great. Posing hypothetical questions and not giving us the answers. ANSI - 'Hello World' MySQL - ????????????? ANSI - Won't insert a value that exceeds datatype specification MySQL - 'Hell' Am I right?
So does this mean that the business model for all of those places selling used XXX is now destroyed and they might as well pack up shop?
CD resellers
Movie resellers
Video game resellers
Garage sales
Consignment shops
Pawn shops
etc...
That's exactly what quantum encryption does, and it solves the problem of key distribution that is the serious weakness of the one time pad.
Why? All encryption mechanisms (save quantum) can and will eventually be defeated. This has been known for quite some time. Why does this make it a sad day ?
I don't have a problem with most of these development methodologies perse, but most of them seem to lack the entire concept of DATA and INFORMATION.
I haven't read the theoreticals of a lot of these methodologies but have worked in several places that say they practice them. What I've found is a bunch of developers (not saying anything about their programming skills) that don't understand databases or design of data structures. I find it difficult to extend many of these systems that are frankly poorly designed. Do these methodologies include some prep work on gathering business requirements and understanding the underlying information relationships?
go ahead and rip me a new one, but the only alphabet soup I've seemed to need is M.B.A.
It appears that managers (business and technical) like it when someone with a technical bachelors gets a business masters.
The real answer is "it depends".
An IT manager that doesn't know much but thinks he/she does often doesn't listen to those that do have that knowledge. This is a bad environment and I would suggest exiting the first instance possible (I was there for almost 4 years right as the dot com bust happened and got stuck).
Overall, the only job a manager (ANY manager) has is to remove obstacles to enable his employees to work as efficiently as possible. He doesn't need technical skills to do so as long as he defers to those with more knowledge when important technical decisions need to be made.
I've also found that if a mid level manager has tremendous technical prowess in addition to being a good manager, the higher level managers without so much of either trait become fearful and have a tendancy to eliminate the "competition" leaving nice safe idiots or ineffective managers surrounding themselves. I'm currently in that situation myself.
How many of the people who post funny comments ever actually read the articles? After all, this is Slashdot
In addition, the Geo Metro is a 3 cylinder car.
The fewer cylinders, the better the fuel efficiency and the lower the power output.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_Metro
The AC is making a good point. A search engine indexes ALREADY publicly available information.
She can be my boss....in bed
Honestly, the best book I read that has helped me do very well in interviews is This.
I've found that asking good questions is a very good way to really leave an impressive impression with an interviewer.
It sounds a whole lot better than this:
Interviewer: Do you have any questions for me?
Me: No. You've answered just about everything I could think of.
It makes you sound uninterested in the job/company/people/etc... that you don't really stand a good chance of getting a job. That's why it took me 7 months to find my last job and only 2 to find my current one.
I hate to burst your bubble, but depending on the government has nothing to do with red vs. blue counties. It's come down to social and religous (self rightous?) values. An awful lot of those red counties your refer to as "make it a point to try and not have to depend on the goverment" receive an awful lot of subsidies from the goverment and wouldn't be able to survive with their lifestyle without them. Anywhere you see a farmer, you see a welfare recipient (through farming subsidies).
As far as the difference between rural and urban poor, you're going to have a mix of hard working (working poor) and lazy asses wherever you go.
Yes, AMD has a better product in my own opinion than Intel.
Open up the advertising for Best Buy or Circuit City or any other retailer that sells computers. How many of the systems do you see containing AMD chips versus Intel chips? Why is it for every AMD computer I see, I see 10 or 20 Intel computers?
More people ARE buying AMD chips, but AMD is arguing that even MORE people would buy them if Intel wasn't using anti-competetive practices against them.
As a side note: You and your friends are a great and important segment for AMD, yet they really want to be mainstream and they can't quite seem to leap that hurdle
I'd like to meat a few unemployeed chicks. The pay sucks, but the hours ain't bad.
So you're lumping ALL MBA's into one category and ALL programmers into another?
Seems pretty stupid to me.
I'm an MBA and I don't admire people like Bill Gates. I love linux and OSS. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I am a gamer. I'm waiting for the time a few years from now when gaming hits linux full force and I can move completely away from microsoft.
I'm a data architect and have a naturally sceptical mind. I probably swallow less bullshit than you.