can someone please explain what this means? shifting the point of paying risk managers compensatory wages that exceed their wealth creation? the last paragraph means nothing to me, and i thought i was of at least average intelligence.
Following this thought - solar is closer than 10+ years as the first large-scale installations are being built.
What is stopping us from large scale roll out of photovoltaic in housing? We have new homes being built all the time, not to mention new roofing put on old homes. Why is there not a push to have solar tiles on any roofing in locations where there will be even a small financial return? When you add up all those individual panels on individual roofs, you'll eventually have a pretty good amount of electricity generated.
While fascinating, it was also one of the most horrific examples I have recently seen of a runaway Executive Branch. Once again we, as US citizens, need to rely upon our elected officials in Congress. Who knows how well that will turn out......
If you are narrowing the scope of your discussion to the 360 console, I'd say Halo 3 will last quite a while.
As a Halo 2 fan and regular player, it never ceased to amaze me how many other players there were online - even last night. With all of the other "Halo-killers" release on the 360 in the last year (think Gears of War, etc.), Halo 2 STILL continues to have huge replay value with the tens of thousands of people who play each day.
It would be foolish to think that Halo 3 would be any different.
Lesson: do not launch product that requires extensive customer service at the beginning of a weekend.
Killing my mod points for this discussion, but the statement needs to be said:
It was the last business day of Apple's (and most likely AT&T's) financial quarter.
Don't launch a MAJOR tech product until a week with a national holiday right in the middle of it? The week after end-of-quarter? Doesn't sound like any corporation I have ever heard of - or have had the pleasure of working for.
Sex education, as taught by anyone outside of the home, is a joke.
Parents simply need to be responsible for the upbringing of their children. Why do we need to have sex ed. in schools? Because parents are too cowardly to speak of things or remember what parenting is really about - taking care of their children.
Bottom line - Personal Responsibility - If you're going to have a child, you should try it.
Sad as it is, this looks like one of the few ways that cities can infuse technology into their infrastructure.
1. Have a natural disaster
2. Bring in all available resources
3. Lawsuit!!!
So we have a dilema. Do we wade through the years of project approval, regime change and lawsuits or just wait for the favorite natural disaster of your geographic location to show up?
His email address was publicly available BEFORE this debacle, on the very website that was 'hacked'. I'm sure he already had his hands full with spammers. I would be more interested to know how much time and effort he has wasted on responding to all of his new friends in Nigeria, or how many threatening emails he has sent to the purveyors of appendage enhancers. Do they respond well to threats from the FBI, sir?
And, if he is fired, resigns, whatever, the next manager with 22 years of experience can have one of his technicians with 6 months of experience simply delete the mail account.
Public shame for public officials is one of the better ways to hold them accountable for their actions. Or should we create a government agency that does nothing but surf the Internet to remove unkind comments about our glorious public officials?
I don't know which is worse - the fact that parent was modded 'Informative' or the fact that I wasted my time responding.
Not attempting to troll, but as a Halo 2 player, I think that Bungie came up with a good solution.
As with any game, things grow stale after some use. Bungie kept it going by releasing new maps and changing the game types that were available via XBox Live. Since you had to pay for the new maps, which a large portion of the game playin populace did, they were able to continue the revenue stream long after development and the large sales had finished.
Why can't more game developers try this? Ask them. Vote with your wallet.
Yes, I'd rather blatantly steal all the music from here to the end of my life then have to pay anything to the bastards that run these companies. I'm sorry to the artists but lets face it, they only see a 10th of the actual cash these companies are actually raking in.
What an amazing statement! Amazing simply because it will resonate through the ears and hearts of music purchasers everywhere.
I don't mind a company earning money. Hell, I enjoy it since it helps me pay the bills every two weeks. But greed so blatant and obvious is going to kill the greedy bastard in the end.
Not sure if this will be the end of the music companies, but I think they are buying the shovel to dig their own grave.
I hate to sound like a troll, but you, sir, are trying to apply something here that clearly does not exist in the universe of the labels:
Logic
In every case we have seen recently, the RIAA has shown a reluctance to live according to the laws (again ) of this country (U.S.).
Bottom line...due to the money involved, the rules that apply to you and me don't work here.:(
The military seem to think that micromanagement of small units remotley is not a great decision
And I agree...
What happens if the communication method breaks or is compromised? You want team leaders who have the ability, training, knowledge and confidence to complete the task they are sent to do.
Doing anything else ends up with severly fragmented and ineffective armed forces.
Caveat: All of this is from my own personal perspective
When you look closely at the list of job types vs. satisfaction, and what the normal person does on a daily basis in those jobs, it becomes very apparent as to why people are dissatisfied in their current job:
Care Assistants - most of these folks enjoy dealing with people. They define the phrase "people person". Their happiness is not purchased by money but is found in the reward of helping others.
Jump to IT and other jobs with similar satisfaction levels:
Mechanics - Secretaries - IT - What do these folks have in common? For the most part, they excel at what they do. How much can a good mechanic/secretary/IT person improve your life? Quite a bit, or we wouldn't have them around. They all perform tasks that we could do ourselves fairly easily if we wanted to take the time to figure it out; however, we know that these jobs can be done BETTER by those who have training in the area.
But why are they unsatisfied? Because on a normal day, all they do is fix stuff that someone else can't/won't fix. The mechanic is always fixing what someone else broke. The IT staff is doing the same thing. Secretary - you tell me how hard it is to schedule your own meetings in some calendaring software...
When I saw that teachers were at 8% I thought that was a little high. Dealing with crap from all sides (administrators, parents, students) would give me a negative job satisfaction level without fail.
The bottom line is that people, in general, are careless and somewhat stupid. They don't take the time to realize what needs to be done on a daily basis to accommodate their sometimes ludicrous demands. As the pace of society increases we become less likely to care about the concerns of others.
Sucks that I won't be able to use my mod points on this topic, but here goes:
So what is the answer? I have seen a lot of complaining around here, and a recent post using the 'Islamic terrorist' card. What I haven't seen is constructive ideas on how to improve the situation.
We HAVE been recently attacked by people who hate this country (speaking for the US here). We, as citizens of most any nation, ARE assulted on a daily basis. Most of the time it is not by anyone holding a position of authority. We are usually assulted by our fellow 'citizens'.
Yes, I am bummed by the fact that this officer did APPEAR to overstep his authority. I do NOT think it is a great idea to be penalized if I do not produce identification. But come on, folks, don't just sit there and complain. Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Does the solution really need to be open source or just something that is platform independant? If it is the latter, have you thought about SAP? While I don't know exactly all of the platforms that they run on, they do offer an ASP solution.
If you a worried about price, however, look somewhere else!
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can someone please explain what this means? shifting the point of paying risk managers compensatory wages that exceed their wealth creation? the last paragraph means nothing to me, and i thought i was of at least average intelligence.
there are still plenty of companies out there that see value in having happy employees
pardon my disbelief, but i ask you to name a US-based, Fortune 500 company that qualifies for your statement
Following this thought - solar is closer than 10+ years as the first large-scale installations are being built.
What is stopping us from large scale roll out of photovoltaic in housing? We have new homes being built all the time, not to mention new roofing put on old homes. Why is there not a push to have solar tiles on any roofing in locations where there will be even a small financial return? When you add up all those individual panels on individual roofs, you'll eventually have a pretty good amount of electricity generated.
Bill Moyers just did a piece on this Monday evening:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12142007/watch2.html
While fascinating, it was also one of the most horrific examples I have recently seen of a runaway Executive Branch. Once again we, as US citizens, need to rely upon our elected officials in Congress. Who knows how well that will turn out......
What is the bill number?
If you are narrowing the scope of your discussion to the 360 console, I'd say Halo 3 will last quite a while.
As a Halo 2 fan and regular player, it never ceased to amaze me how many other players there were online - even last night. With all of the other "Halo-killers" release on the 360 in the last year (think Gears of War, etc.), Halo 2 STILL continues to have huge replay value with the tens of thousands of people who play each day.
It would be foolish to think that Halo 3 would be any different.
Lesson: do not launch product that requires extensive customer service at the beginning of a weekend.
Killing my mod points for this discussion, but the statement needs to be said:
It was the last business day of Apple's (and most likely AT&T's) financial quarter.
Don't launch a MAJOR tech product until a week with a national holiday right in the middle of it? The week after end-of-quarter? Doesn't sound like any corporation I have ever heard of - or have had the pleasure of working for.
If that is the case, then this might well be the solution:
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http://blogs.technet.com/dst2007/archive/2007/03/
Sex education, as taught by anyone outside of the home, is a joke.
Parents simply need to be responsible for the upbringing of their children. Why do we need to have sex ed. in schools? Because parents are too cowardly to speak of things or remember what parenting is really about - taking care of their children.
Bottom line - Personal Responsibility - If you're going to have a child, you should try it.
...Heck, the feds probably would've authorized them to shoot anybody with a BlackBerry.
True -
But is that a bad thing?
Sad as it is, this looks like one of the few ways that cities can infuse technology into their infrastructure.
1. Have a natural disaster
2. Bring in all available resources
3. Lawsuit!!!
So we have a dilema. Do we wade through the years of project approval, regime change and lawsuits or just wait for the favorite natural disaster of your geographic location to show up?
Wow. Where do I start?
His email address was publicly available BEFORE this debacle, on the very website that was 'hacked'. I'm sure he already had his hands full with spammers. I would be more interested to know how much time and effort he has wasted on responding to all of his new friends in Nigeria, or how many threatening emails he has sent to the purveyors of appendage enhancers. Do they respond well to threats from the FBI, sir?
And, if he is fired, resigns, whatever, the next manager with 22 years of experience can have one of his technicians with 6 months of experience simply delete the mail account.
Public shame for public officials is one of the better ways to hold them accountable for their actions. Or should we create a government agency that does nothing but surf the Internet to remove unkind comments about our glorious public officials?
I don't know which is worse - the fact that parent was modded 'Informative' or the fact that I wasted my time responding.
Not attempting to troll, but as a Halo 2 player, I think that Bungie came up with a good solution.
As with any game, things grow stale after some use. Bungie kept it going by releasing new maps and changing the game types that were available via XBox Live. Since you had to pay for the new maps, which a large portion of the game playin populace did, they were able to continue the revenue stream long after development and the large sales had finished.
Why can't more game developers try this? Ask them. Vote with your wallet.
BSG has been renewed for a 3rd season. For some reason it appears as though the originating press release has been pulled from Sci-Fi's website.
Season 2.5 of BSG begins on January 6
Yes, I'd rather blatantly steal all the music from here to the end of my life then have to pay anything to the bastards that run these companies. I'm sorry to the artists but lets face it, they only see a 10th of the actual cash these companies are actually raking in.
What an amazing statement! Amazing simply because it will resonate through the ears and hearts of music purchasers everywhere.
I don't mind a company earning money. Hell, I enjoy it since it helps me pay the bills every two weeks. But greed so blatant and obvious is going to kill the greedy bastard in the end.
Not sure if this will be the end of the music companies, but I think they are buying the shovel to dig their own grave.
I hate to sound like a troll, but you, sir, are trying to apply something here that clearly does not exist in the universe of the labels:
:(
Logic
In every case we have seen recently, the RIAA has shown a reluctance to live according to the laws (again ) of this country (U.S.). Bottom line...due to the money involved, the rules that apply to you and me don't work here.
Hollywood has already done its own version on this: Crazy People. Great movie for truth in words and advertising.
The military seem to think that micromanagement of small units remotley is not a great decision
And I agree...
What happens if the communication method breaks or is compromised? You want team leaders who have the ability, training, knowledge and confidence to complete the task they are sent to do.
Doing anything else ends up with severly fragmented and ineffective armed forces.
Caveat: All of this is from my own personal perspective
When you look closely at the list of job types vs. satisfaction, and what the normal person does on a daily basis in those jobs, it becomes very apparent as to why people are dissatisfied in their current job:
Care Assistants - most of these folks enjoy dealing with people. They define the phrase "people person". Their happiness is not purchased by money but is found in the reward of helping others.
Jump to IT and other jobs with similar satisfaction levels:
Mechanics - Secretaries - IT - What do these folks have in common? For the most part, they excel at what they do. How much can a good mechanic/secretary/IT person improve your life? Quite a bit, or we wouldn't have them around. They all perform tasks that we could do ourselves fairly easily if we wanted to take the time to figure it out; however, we know that these jobs can be done BETTER by those who have training in the area.
But why are they unsatisfied? Because on a normal day, all they do is fix stuff that someone else can't/won't fix. The mechanic is always fixing what someone else broke. The IT staff is doing the same thing. Secretary - you tell me how hard it is to schedule your own meetings in some calendaring software...
When I saw that teachers were at 8% I thought that was a little high. Dealing with crap from all sides (administrators, parents, students) would give me a negative job satisfaction level without fail.
The bottom line is that people, in general, are careless and somewhat stupid. They don't take the time to realize what needs to be done on a daily basis to accommodate their sometimes ludicrous demands. As the pace of society increases we become less likely to care about the concerns of others.
And it shows.
Sucks that I won't be able to use my mod points on this topic, but here goes:
So what is the answer? I have seen a lot of complaining around here, and a recent post using the 'Islamic terrorist' card. What I haven't seen is constructive ideas on how to improve the situation.
We HAVE been recently attacked by people who hate this country (speaking for the US here). We, as citizens of most any nation, ARE assulted on a daily basis. Most of the time it is not by anyone holding a position of authority. We are usually assulted by our fellow 'citizens'.
Yes, I am bummed by the fact that this officer did APPEAR to overstep his authority. I do NOT think it is a great idea to be penalized if I do not produce identification. But come on, folks, don't just sit there and complain. Be part of the solution, not the problem.
By the way, do you vote?
Does the solution really need to be open source or just something that is platform independant? If it is the latter, have you thought about SAP? While I don't know exactly all of the platforms that they run on, they do offer an ASP solution.
If you a worried about price, however, look somewhere else!
Have I ever felt guilty for using OS X instead of Linux?
Sure - everyday.
Signed,
Steve Jobs
Found at the link posted above:
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. -- Roman Polanski
Yes, sir, you are the spectacle.