I was pleasantly surprised to see a few things over this holiday season. Parents asking about the rating system and what it means. Game retailers pausing the transaction to point out it is a 17+/mature rated title and may not be appropriate for children.
I don't see anything wrong with carding younger customers (which I've seen). The problem is the outright bans some people want to have, or those who angrily react when someone suggests they make an informed decision.
I use linux because it works. Other people use linux because it works. Companies (ie google) use linux because it works.
The software keeps getting better, I file my simple user level bug reports and tweaks to various projects.
I'm happy with slow incremental progress with few mistakes. End users don't switch their OS because it's better, they switch because they've gotten frustrated with the horrible quality/performance of the one they've got.
BTW what is this we and leader you talk of. I'm not in your market share seeking we, and ESR isn't my leader.
Who cares, sure the PS3 (and xbox 360) have great graphics and insanely powerful processing capabilities.
I think consoles are now close to being a commodity product like computers are for most people. For average users, any new computer you buy today will do pretty much everything you need.
Similarly all the current consoles have acceptable performance, they differ in price and controller design.
Options do have a current value. If I get a paycheck in $, options, use of a company car or gold bars it doesn't matter. I should claim all as income, and the company should account for them as a salary expense, the form shouldn't matter.
sheesh the last year, employees and employers have been 'punished' by the IRS with new rules requiring options to show up as an expense on the bottom line.
Stock options are an expense and should be accounted for. Google is trading at $480/share today. If Google issues 1 new share, the value of that share is $480. If this new share is traded for $480 there is no loss of value. If Google gives away this share for less than $480 they are basically losing that extra money. Forcing a company to record this lost money is entirely appropriate. There is no punishment, it just creates a more realistic view of the companies finances.
As for options vs stock the valuation is slightly more complicated, but still well documented and understood.
Hydrogen is not an energy source. It is merely a storage/transportation medium.
Hydrocarbons have a slight energy density advantage, however they are typically more toxic and dangerous than hydrogen. You can run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen, I don't see why we'd want to synthesize gasoline instead of just using hydrogen directly.
The information in the past has been slightly better than unfounded fearmongering. Some of the claims being made by some environmentalists were quite simply ridiculous, fearmongering undermines their whole arguement.
I'm glad that someone is finally putting together more accurate and reasonable data. This might get more support as more people accept it.
Oh and score one for those who claimed the fearmongering was a bit of an exageration.
I like that idea better. With silly string you leave a trail that you were there, plus some slight noise. With cotton string there is no evidence, and it is quieter.
Investment returns can come from a few things. Most of my money is invested in companies. They used this money to buy equipment and set up factories and give people jobs. The factory is profitable so the company continues to grow (my stake in the company is much more valuable) and I get a nice stream of earnings from them (distributions and dividends).
It's win/win for me, and the people I helped create jobs for.
I think you're right, was he a student under the disciplinary control of the school at that time. But since he was absent from school, it wasn't on school property it seems clear cut. However schools tend to punish well outside their jurisdiction if they can get away with it.
If he was he isn't entited to a very large number of rights of normal people. No freedom of speech, association, unreasonable search and seizure, right to trial etc. It's scary that there is no justice at all in the school system, at least in the military there is almost always the option of a trial if you feel you are innocent of the offence.
I went to a school where the principal bragged about how he had more power within the school than law enforcement.
Yawn, standard manufacturing technology in industry.
The details of what happens are cool, but every company making moulded thermoplastics does the same thing. The machines at LEGO aren't any different than those making toothpaste caps or rubbermaid containers, it's just a cooler product to geeks.
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Change is expensive.
So don't change unless there is a compelling reason.
Hard to optimize? You only have to optimize the compiler once, over the millions of devices this cost is small.
Runtime interpreter/compilers, you lose the speed advantage.
Volume and competition makes x86 series products cheap
I was pleasantly surprised to see a few things over this holiday season.
Parents asking about the rating system and what it means.
Game retailers pausing the transaction to point out it is a 17+/mature rated title and may not be appropriate for children.
I don't see anything wrong with carding younger customers (which I've seen). The problem is the outright bans some people want to have, or those who angrily react when someone suggests they make an informed decision.
The same reason people don't care about alcohol related traffic fatalities.
People are scared of rare freak occurances, ie murder, terrorist attacks etc.
They barely even think of the more common preventable/delayable causes.
I use linux because it works.
Other people use linux because it works.
Companies (ie google) use linux because it works.
The software keeps getting better, I file my simple user level bug reports and tweaks to various projects.
I'm happy with slow incremental progress with few mistakes. End users don't switch their OS because it's better, they switch because they've gotten frustrated with the horrible quality/performance of the one they've got.
BTW what is this we and leader you talk of. I'm not in your market share seeking we, and ESR isn't my leader.
I've got it, one of the many minigames in Monkeyball.
I think Wii sports being bundled really wins people over to the Wii.
It isn't that the games are great, it's the pick up and play fun.
The Opera Beta is free as well as the weather channel.
It is fun.
Most people seem to really like at least 2 of the Wii sports.
I like tennis and boxing.
If your wiimote is a little off make sure you check the sensitivity to calibrate it.
I found that made a huge difference.
Who cares, sure the PS3 (and xbox 360) have great graphics and insanely powerful processing capabilities.
I think consoles are now close to being a commodity product like computers are for most people. For average users, any new computer you buy today will do pretty much everything you need.
Similarly all the current consoles have acceptable performance, they differ in price and controller design.
Wii is powerful enough, cheaper and fun.
Just play it online
http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/kbsgames/pgnew/
Why 2d for the next gen consoles?
Pretty much everything could do a 2d game today, but gamers don't want them.
Go to yahoo games and see the large amount of simple 2d games available. I don't see people paying big money for them, although I did enjoy Zuma.
Options do have a current value.
If I get a paycheck in $, options, use of a company car or gold bars it doesn't matter.
I should claim all as income, and the company should account for them as a salary expense, the form shouldn't matter.
sheesh
the last year, employees and employers have been 'punished' by the IRS with new rules requiring options to show up as an expense on the bottom line.
Stock options are an expense and should be accounted for.
Google is trading at $480/share today. If Google issues 1 new share, the value of that share is $480. If this new share is traded for $480 there is no loss of value.
If Google gives away this share for less than $480 they are basically losing that extra money. Forcing a company to record this lost money is entirely appropriate. There is no punishment, it just creates a more realistic view of the companies finances.
As for options vs stock the valuation is slightly more complicated, but still well documented and understood.
Hydrogen is not an energy source.
It is merely a storage/transportation medium.
Hydrocarbons have a slight energy density advantage, however they are typically more toxic and dangerous than hydrogen.
You can run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen, I don't see why we'd want to synthesize gasoline instead of just using hydrogen directly.
It's been done, laptops do it all the time.
Personally I don't reboot my desktop enough for it to be an issue.
The information in the past has been slightly better than unfounded fearmongering.
Some of the claims being made by some environmentalists were quite simply ridiculous, fearmongering undermines their whole arguement.
I'm glad that someone is finally putting together more accurate and reasonable data. This might get more support as more people accept it.
Oh and score one for those who claimed the fearmongering was a bit of an exageration.
Turn off the water.
Maybe leave your furnace just above freezing.
Be sure to forward or have your mail stored.
I like that idea better.
With silly string you leave a trail that you were there, plus some slight noise.
With cotton string there is no evidence, and it is quieter.
Why isn't the government providing the tools the military needs.
Additionally there should be a significant discount if they make a nice large contract
Investment returns can come from a few things.
Most of my money is invested in companies. They used this money to buy equipment and set up factories and give people jobs.
The factory is profitable so the company continues to grow (my stake in the company is much more valuable) and I get a nice stream of earnings from them (distributions and dividends).
It's win/win for me, and the people I helped create jobs for.
I think you're right, was he a student under the disciplinary control of the school at that time. But since he was absent from school, it wasn't on school property it seems clear cut.
However schools tend to punish well outside their jurisdiction if they can get away with it.
If he was he isn't entited to a very large number of rights of normal people. No freedom of speech, association, unreasonable search and seizure, right to trial etc.
It's scary that there is no justice at all in the school system, at least in the military there is almost always the option of a trial if you feel you are innocent of the offence.
I went to a school where the principal bragged about how he had more power within the school than law enforcement.
It's enough to make me want to home school
I worked in injection molding development.
It is injection molding, I will admit the words in the article are misleading.
The clamp force doesn't squish the plastic, it is used to seal the mold so it doesn't leak plastic.
In general for high volume thermoplastics production they use injection molding. LEGO definately injection molds their bricks.
Yawn, standard manufacturing technology in industry.
The details of what happens are cool, but every company making moulded thermoplastics does the same thing.
The machines at LEGO aren't any different than those making toothpaste caps or rubbermaid containers, it's just a cooler product to geeks.
Yeah wasn't obvious at all.
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So this means I don't get checks, or origional documents.
Don't find that very appealing.