come, on, this story has gotta be fake. I know this is Iran, but how could anyone think this film series could ever calm down the hordes in the street? I mean even black robed persian women are rational, aren't they?
Thanks for running the numbers. I was wondering if anyone had a business calculator on their desk.
Have you run the numbers accounting for the fact that if you use solar shingles, you don't need to use regular shingles? If you install a solar roof instead of a standard roof, rather than on top of a perfectly good existing roof, the savings would be significant.
If you meet a woman online, how do you know she is really a woman? It seems that detail would be unconfirmed until you met her again offline.
To answer the original question, since you have me thinking of food, why not the grocery store? Women eat, too, and you can tell a lot about a person by what he/she puts in his cart.
with a 4 hour backlog of data, they probably weren't looking for allergy information. I'm afraid it was mostly just a data entry backlog.
But, even if it wasn't, your wife should probably get a medicalert bracelet if her allergy is life threatening. Or, you can make a point of being with her if she loses conscience. If she is conscience, she's probably smart enough to tell the doc about her allergies unless they are extremely complex.
to replace manual systems with computers to such an extent that business can't be done during a power failure. Remember back in the day when we were taught how to make change in school and had a real world demonstration of that task every time we went shopping? It is so stupid for a store not to sell stuff just because its record keeping system is down.
Emergency rooms can triage so that the obvious cases do get treated there. It doesn't take long to write or dictate removed splinter from left middle finger and then the name and phone number. Everything else can be input later. If the kid is diabetic or something, the parent will probably mention it, especially if reminded. Maybe this was done, the article didn't say all patents were turned away, did it?
stores are even easier. it's not life or death to the customer, he will just go to another stay while the cashiers stand around. But, barcodes can be scanned (wireless scanner, and if store is smart, the database will have the price, too) and recorded to be uploaded later, and the transaction takes place manually, The entire stores entire table of sku's and prices can fit on a laptop, as well as a rudimentary cash register program.
The only time power outage should cause a problem is if doctor/nurse/clerk needs to access information on that particular customer from a previous encounter. For nobrainers, if a skinned knee can be called a nobrainer, just get the name, phone number, and insurance ID and deal with it later.
Maybe she shouldn't go to High School until she's physically and emotionally ready. It's doable. All she has to do is sit jin the back of her Middle School Life Science or PreAlgebra class and attend Biology and Calculus via laptop and earbuds. In fact, her stupider but physically mature classmates who should have been held back to elementary school could avoid that stigma by telecommuting to third grade versions of the same courses.
this article is about her age, not her IQ. Plenty of people are that smart, it's just that most parents don't gave them evaluated for Mensa at such a young age, and then go stick her face all over the web. That's what's unusual, the parents, not the kid.
Her education, if you should call it that, should include a wide variety of subjects. Certainly she should learn to excel at whatever her natural talents are, but her educators should also ensure that learns social skills, and other skills that would keep her out of her mother's basement submitting articles and stories to slashdot. And she should certainly learn makeup and dressing and all those other wonderful skills normal girls get to learn.
I forgot something. Excess revenue (not sure if is actually profit) can be reinvested in the business by spending for something not in the original budget. This might be a bonus for employees, replacement of equipment with better or more equipment, or even a party.
I was being facetious, but you did set up the looking out for grandchildren thing. Sorry, I jumped on it and ran.
I do agree that our society should be working on multiple solutions. But, projects with fast payoffs aren't necessarily better in the end than projects that take decades. Since the deadline isn't known, we should allocate resources to all options. I do like the idea of individual citizens being able to choose which projects to fund. I think I'll vote for the generation ships with the virtual reality sex simulators.
I'm not sure if this fits the generation ship model you describe, but my version would have each generation getting larger. A relatively small crew and ship would be launched and then whenever feasible, the ship would be expanded, then the population expanded. Invitro using frozen egss and sperm would ensure a healthy gene pool. Not sure if astronauts would carry the fetuses to term or if "bottle babies" (BNW) would be used. The population increase might require more pregnancies than the kind of women willing to join up would tolerate. I suppose you could have mostly women in the early generations, then create men whenever they might become useful.
Thanks. But, profit is what is left over for the shareholders, Employee compensation is a cost. (revenue-cost=profit) It is very good that they are allowed to pay enough to attract quality employees. Salary caps may save money, but they also kill quality. So, the high salaries might indicate that they don't mind paying for quality. Shortminded beancounters are more liketly to focus on reducing costs, rather than paying for quality. I'm not British, so I don't know whether they make a profit, but if they do, who do they give it to? Shareholders? Taxpayers?
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If we waited long enough, we might even evolve wheels!!
If we leave human design to evolution, we wouldn't need engineers.
If we didn't have iPods, we might become better musicians.
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
* Netflix
* Go to the movies
* Pay for the newspaper
* Pay the late fees on my library books
* Pay admission to museums
At the end of the day, cable isn't offering us anything we can't see already on Netflix or on youtube or hulu et al. So really -- why pay $700/yr or whatever when we can watch all the programming that we really like by pulling it instead of waiting for it to be pushed?
P.S. Take a Kill-A-Watt and check out how much electricity your cable box + DVR + ??? are using on standby and calculate the additional burden on your electric bill. I'd bet it's a combined 40W or so, good for another $50+ a year.
I've never had cable and rarely watch broadcast. I've been with Netflix since its creation. Last time I watched broadcast was when Obama was on Leno. I picked up a converter box at Fry's because it was cheap, but it's been at least a month and I have yet to plug it in. I'm starting to think I wsted the $9.99 I gave to Fry's.
Throw in one of these, and live broadcast is completely unnecessary, except possibly for emergency broadcasts when internet is down.
The cable adapter takes no juice at all. Imagine the savings if you got all your shows with your computer.
BBC is well run, but it isn't a private monopoly. It is a government run agency that uses "best practices" learned from being in business a long time and paying attention to other well run broadcasters. They are not in business to make a profit, but to provide a sercice to its audience at a cost that is politicaly justifiable. Their motive to keep costs in line (or to show a "profit") is political.
A real life privately owned, government granted monopoly is a business model that doesn't make sense, except for in the short term, when it is desirable to expand the business faster than possible under a freer market. Network style business (roads, pipes, buslines) have the inherent problem that early adopters might have to wait a long time before being a customer makes financial sense. An internet or a road with only a few destinations isn't worth much. Value goes up exponentially as networks are linked up and more destinations are added.
But, once the network is built out, and the network is more or less stable, then what? Profits can't so easily be increased by expanding the network. When profit margin is dicatated by regulators, customer satisfaction drops out of the equation. Since profit is supposed to be what drives the enterprise, the business model is deliriously flawed.
But, private business gotta make money. So, option one, screw the customer. This works amazingly well since the customers can't go away, and politicians are slow. Regulators have the annoying habit of being from the business regulated, and politicians would rather debate gay marriage than bandwidth. The monopoly business can argue quite truthfully that option 2, allowing a competitor to build a parallel network is more expensive than the little bit of screwage they might be guilty of.
Option 3 exists, and seems to work, but I don't have enough data to support an opinion. Here in Georgia, it was done with local telco for awhile, and now it is done with natural gas. That is, the wire or pipes, are maintained by a monopoly and the product carried through the wire/pipe is sold by competitors. Since the infrastructure is the expensive part, this might work out. Bonds could be used to finance the build out and maintenance could be paid for by the companies that use it. This is how highways get built. Truckers pay huge taxes and even individuals pay a little with the gas tax at the pump.
Television has turned into a system where cable monopoly is going away very quickly. No matter how much cable wants to keep it's monopoly, it has Dish, Internet, Netflix, and whatever we think of tomorrow to deal with. If I had the bucks, I'd buy up the cable companies and convert them to a business model where customer satisfaction actually mattered. Rather than owning the regulators and lobbying for more regulation to keep competition out, I'd try to be the best option. After all, the cable company has the best pipe in the neighborhood. They are way ahead of the phone company with fiber, and don't have the latency issues of the satellites. They just have to learn some new tricks. Like being nice.
That's the definition of the word given in G. M. Dodge's The Telegraph Instructor even before radio. The definition has never changed in wire telegraphy. The first wireless operators were landline telegraphers who left their offices to go to sea or to man the coastal stations. They brought with them their language and much of the tradition of their older profession.
In those early days, spark was king and every station occupied the same wavelength-or, more accurately perhaps, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers. Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area. When this happened, frustrated commercial operators would call the ship whose weaker signals had been blotted out by amateurs and say "SRI OM THOSE #&$!@ HAMS ARE JAMMING YOU."
Amateurs, possibly unfamiliar with the real meaning of the term, picked it up and applied it to themselves in true "Yankee Doodle" fashion and wore it with pride. As the years advanced, the original meaning has completely disappeared. -Louise Ramsey Moreau W3WRE/WB6BBO
We need modern dirigibles. They would be lighter than air. The launched ship wouldn't even need to be very big. If it is to be hone of a colony, it can be enlarged as the population increases. All you would need is a source of materials for enlarging the skeleton and generating more gas. If not carried on board, we can use robotic scout vehicles to search among the asteroids. Once, in space, the actual gas isn't very important, I would recommend that it be something breathable by humans, animals, and or plants, so that the entire ship can be used.
Slashdot Mirror
Me and the rest of us just clicked. Are you sure it isn't just slashdotted?
Not me. I'm still here, in front of my computer, very much alive.
It is a fact that basement dwellers don't die of skin cancer, or run down by cars or motorcycles either.
come, on, this story has gotta be fake. I know this is Iran, but how could anyone think this film series could ever calm down the hordes in the street? I mean even black robed persian women are rational, aren't they?
Thanks for running the numbers. I was wondering if anyone had a business calculator on their desk. Have you run the numbers accounting for the fact that if you use solar shingles, you don't need to use regular shingles? If you install a solar roof instead of a standard roof, rather than on top of a perfectly good existing roof, the savings would be significant.
Feels like masturbating with a pink pearl (TM)
If you meet a woman online, how do you know she is really a woman? It seems that detail would be unconfirmed until you met her again offline. To answer the original question, since you have me thinking of food, why not the grocery store? Women eat, too, and you can tell a lot about a person by what he/she puts in his cart.
with a 4 hour backlog of data, they probably weren't looking for allergy information. I'm afraid it was mostly just a data entry backlog.
But, even if it wasn't, your wife should probably get a medicalert bracelet if her allergy is life threatening. Or, you can make a point of being with her if she loses conscience. If she is conscience, she's probably smart enough to tell the doc about her allergies unless they are extremely complex.
to replace manual systems with computers to such an extent that business can't be done during a power failure. Remember back in the day when we were taught how to make change in school and had a real world demonstration of that task every time we went shopping? It is so stupid for a store not to sell stuff just because its record keeping system is down.
Emergency rooms can triage so that the obvious cases do get treated there. It doesn't take long to write or dictate removed splinter from left middle finger and then the name and phone number. Everything else can be input later. If the kid is diabetic or something, the parent will probably mention it, especially if reminded. Maybe this was done, the article didn't say all patents were turned away, did it?
stores are even easier. it's not life or death to the customer, he will just go to another stay while the cashiers stand around. But, barcodes can be scanned (wireless scanner, and if store is smart, the database will have the price, too) and recorded to be uploaded later, and the transaction takes place manually, The entire stores entire table of sku's and prices can fit on a laptop, as well as a rudimentary cash register program.
The only time power outage should cause a problem is if doctor/nurse/clerk needs to access information on that particular customer from a previous encounter. For nobrainers, if a skinned knee can be called a nobrainer, just get the name, phone number, and insurance ID and deal with it later.
Maybe she shouldn't go to High School until she's physically and emotionally ready. It's doable. All she has to do is sit jin the back of her Middle School Life Science or PreAlgebra class and attend Biology and Calculus via laptop and earbuds. In fact, her stupider but physically mature classmates who should have been held back to elementary school could avoid that stigma by telecommuting to third grade versions of the same courses.
this article is about her age, not her IQ. Plenty of people are that smart, it's just that most parents don't gave them evaluated for Mensa at such a young age, and then go stick her face all over the web. That's what's unusual, the parents, not the kid.
Her education, if you should call it that, should include a wide variety of subjects. Certainly she should learn to excel at whatever her natural talents are, but her educators should also ensure that learns social skills, and other skills that would keep her out of her mother's basement submitting articles and stories to slashdot. And she should certainly learn makeup and dressing and all those other wonderful skills normal girls get to learn.
It appears you can put anything as your political affialiation. Maybe we should change our to Pirate Party as a show of support.
I forgot something. Excess revenue (not sure if is actually profit) can be reinvested in the business by spending for something not in the original budget. This might be a bonus for employees, replacement of equipment with better or more equipment, or even a party.
Hey, you stole my idea. I had it years ago when I noticed that silicon is immediately below carbon on the periodic table.
I was being facetious, but you did set up the looking out for grandchildren thing. Sorry, I jumped on it and ran. I do agree that our society should be working on multiple solutions. But, projects with fast payoffs aren't necessarily better in the end than projects that take decades. Since the deadline isn't known, we should allocate resources to all options. I do like the idea of individual citizens being able to choose which projects to fund. I think I'll vote for the generation ships with the virtual reality sex simulators.
I'm not sure if this fits the generation ship model you describe, but my version would have each generation getting larger. A relatively small crew and ship would be launched and then whenever feasible, the ship would be expanded, then the population expanded. Invitro using frozen egss and sperm would ensure a healthy gene pool. Not sure if astronauts would carry the fetuses to term or if "bottle babies" (BNW) would be used. The population increase might require more pregnancies than the kind of women willing to join up would tolerate. I suppose you could have mostly women in the early generations, then create men whenever they might become useful.
Thanks. But, profit is what is left over for the shareholders, Employee compensation is a cost. (revenue-cost=profit) It is very good that they are allowed to pay enough to attract quality employees. Salary caps may save money, but they also kill quality. So, the high salaries might indicate that they don't mind paying for quality. Shortminded beancounters are more liketly to focus on reducing costs, rather than paying for quality. I'm not British, so I don't know whether they make a profit, but if they do, who do they give it to? Shareholders? Taxpayers?
If we waited long enough, we might even evolve wheels!!
If we leave human design to evolution, we wouldn't need engineers.
If we didn't have iPods, we might become better musicians.
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
* Netflix
* Go to the movies
* Pay for the newspaper
* Pay the late fees on my library books
* Pay admission to museums
At the end of the day, cable isn't offering us anything we can't see already on Netflix or on youtube or hulu et al. So really -- why pay $700/yr or whatever when we can watch all the programming that we really like by pulling it instead of waiting for it to be pushed?
P.S. Take a Kill-A-Watt and check out how much electricity your cable box + DVR + ??? are using on standby and calculate the additional burden on your electric bill. I'd bet it's a combined 40W or so, good for another $50+ a year.
I've never had cable and rarely watch broadcast. I've been with Netflix since its creation. Last time I watched broadcast was when Obama was on Leno. I picked up a converter box at Fry's because it was cheap, but it's been at least a month and I have yet to plug it in. I'm starting to think I wsted the $9.99 I gave to Fry's.
Throw in one of these, and live broadcast is completely unnecessary, except possibly for emergency broadcasts when internet is down.
The cable adapter takes no juice at all. Imagine the savings if you got all your shows with your computer.
BBC is well run, but it isn't a private monopoly. It is a government run agency that uses "best practices" learned from being in business a long time and paying attention to other well run broadcasters. They are not in business to make a profit, but to provide a sercice to its audience at a cost that is politicaly justifiable. Their motive to keep costs in line (or to show a "profit") is political.
A real life privately owned, government granted monopoly is a business model that doesn't make sense, except for in the short term, when it is desirable to expand the business faster than possible under a freer market. Network style business (roads, pipes, buslines) have the inherent problem that early adopters might have to wait a long time before being a customer makes financial sense. An internet or a road with only a few destinations isn't worth much. Value goes up exponentially as networks are linked up and more destinations are added.
But, once the network is built out, and the network is more or less stable, then what? Profits can't so easily be increased by expanding the network. When profit margin is dicatated by regulators, customer satisfaction drops out of the equation. Since profit is supposed to be what drives the enterprise, the business model is deliriously flawed.
But, private business gotta make money. So, option one, screw the customer. This works amazingly well since the customers can't go away, and politicians are slow. Regulators have the annoying habit of being from the business regulated, and politicians would rather debate gay marriage than bandwidth. The monopoly business can argue quite truthfully that option 2, allowing a competitor to build a parallel network is more expensive than the little bit of screwage they might be guilty of.
Option 3 exists, and seems to work, but I don't have enough data to support an opinion. Here in Georgia, it was done with local telco for awhile, and now it is done with natural gas. That is, the wire or pipes, are maintained by a monopoly and the product carried through the wire/pipe is sold by competitors. Since the infrastructure is the expensive part, this might work out. Bonds could be used to finance the build out and maintenance could be paid for by the companies that use it. This is how highways get built. Truckers pay huge taxes and even individuals pay a little with the gas tax at the pump.
Television has turned into a system where cable monopoly is going away very quickly. No matter how much cable wants to keep it's monopoly, it has Dish, Internet, Netflix, and whatever we think of tomorrow to deal with. If I had the bucks, I'd buy up the cable companies and convert them to a business model where customer satisfaction actually mattered. Rather than owning the regulators and lobbying for more regulation to keep competition out, I'd try to be the best option. After all, the cable company has the best pipe in the neighborhood. They are way ahead of the phone company with fiber, and don't have the latency issues of the satellites. They just have to learn some new tricks. Like being nice.
I learned a new word today:
phenocopterophile
follow link in parent if you want to know this word, too.
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/history.html#ham
"Ham: a poor operator. A 'plug.'"
That's the definition of the word given in G. M. Dodge's The Telegraph Instructor even before radio. The definition has never changed in wire telegraphy. The first wireless operators were landline telegraphers who left their offices to go to sea or to man the coastal stations. They brought with them their language and much of the tradition of their older profession.
In those early days, spark was king and every station occupied the same wavelength-or, more accurately perhaps, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers. Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area. When this happened, frustrated commercial operators would call the ship whose weaker signals had been blotted out by amateurs and say "SRI OM THOSE #&$!@ HAMS ARE JAMMING YOU."
Amateurs, possibly unfamiliar with the real meaning of the term, picked it up and applied it to themselves in true "Yankee Doodle" fashion and wore it with pride. As the years advanced, the original meaning has completely disappeared.
-Louise Ramsey Moreau W3WRE/WB6BBO
Is that what the NASCAR people are trying to do?
We need modern dirigibles. They would be lighter than air. The launched ship wouldn't even need to be very big. If it is to be hone of a colony, it can be enlarged as the population increases. All you would need is a source of materials for enlarging the skeleton and generating more gas. If not carried on board, we can use robotic scout vehicles to search among the asteroids. Once, in space, the actual gas isn't very important, I would recommend that it be something breathable by humans, animals, and or plants, so that the entire ship can be used.