So, he configures the systems wrong and costs the school system money from electricity... sure, fire him or something if you must. I mean, you could have also just said "take it off", I'm sure he would have complied and it wouldn't have been any further problem and you'd save yourselves the cost of finding a replacement...
But the "criminal charges" alluded to by the article would be ridiculous.
On the other hand, the Albanian economy was devastated by Ponzi schemes in the 1990s - investment vehicles which were contributed to largely by people who were aware something was afoot, but assumed they were buying into some sort black-market operations (not outright scams).
Sustainable meat? Sustainable materials? Venison! Deer leather! Now that we don't have wolves anymore (strangely, no one wants them nearby) and the critters are roaming the suburbs left and right...
I wonder what the implications will be for the Midwestern economy. I wonder how the population dynamics of domesticated animals will change. Will the world lose exotic breeds of farm animal, like the fancy tufted Polish chickens? Or will we preserve them, as 'real meat' becomes more of a gourmet/specialty market? What's "ethically" "better" for livestock and domesticated animals?
The one I always recall seeing was for some Sun sample Java code, for the "clock" applet. This code not to be used in blah blah blah or the design, construction, or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
Sure. For instance: Burlington Northern / Santa Fe. (And fancy that! They're being bought out by someone who's able to appreciate companies who are in it for the long haul.)
My guess is that they'll continue the relatively unobtrusive ads, and try sell enhanced capabilities (access to demographics, marketing information) to interested companies in some manner or another, so that they can cozy up to Facebook's users. That sort of thing is where the big money is.
Have you seen any sites where you can log in with your Facebook account yet? That's federated identity management, Kyle! Whatever else, they're not just resting on their laurels over there.
Screwing users over is great for short-term revenue, but companies who are in it for the long haul value things like brand loyalty. Of course, if you're just in it for the short haul and you can convince someone else to take your stock and give you money now, you might not care.
(Personally, I'm not going to buy any Facebook. One of my mutual funds will probably pick up a few shares indirectly; whatever...)
Facebook is also a lot better at keeping itself current on the Web than properties like MySpace and AIM. AIM took care to lock down its protocols to outside agencies, trying to use it to build the AOL brand - but it wasn't strong enough, so it backfired, and that didn't help much. MySpace as a site is a stinking pile of garbage - not even the people, just the HTML - they can't do technically interesting things. Facebook, on the other hand, has done significant outreach to developers, even beyond stupidity like Mafia Wars. Significant sites are on board. Heck, you can log on to external sites with your Facebook account now. That's federated identity management, Kyle! And things like the infamous Beacon - despised by some, sure, but definitely a sign that they're extending their reach into interesting places. (To potential shareholders, that is.)
Twitter has a bit of a shot but I think it's a little too much of a one-trick-wonder. If there's one social-media-networking thingy today that's got serious money potential, I'd say Facebook is it.
So (quit the 401(k) and roll it over into an IRA and) take responsibility for your own savings. Heck, short-sell if you want. Just remember that the market can remain irrational longer than you can necessarily remain solvent.
What's a thug? Somebody who uses violence and intimidation to get his way. (In the case of politics, it's not necessarily physical violence.) Things like flag@whitehouse.gov and the "Fox news are partisan hacks!!" and the "Rush Limbaugh is a partisan hack!!" and such diversions from the white house press office. If administration bullying doesn't count for some reason, look back to April and Obama's remarks to Rep. DeFazio (a Democrat who voted against the stimulus): "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother."
Now hurry up and mod me Troll again, you partisan hacks.
I voted McCain. Palin's a bit of a goofball and McCain's... even more so, but at least he's been in the legislature. But Obama is a thug. Sure, he's done a few decent things, and a few partisan things which you'll either love or hate, but I can't respect an administration that thinks that they're "speaking truth to power" when they diss their political opponents in the media (Fox). Sorry, you are the power, and you're speaking power, even if Fox is a bunch of doofuses. Honestly, what is this, the Ministry of Truth? Then there's the GM bondholders who got screwed in favor of the auto unions because of the administration's strongarming -- you know, a lot of other people had retirement funds with GM bonds too.
I don't care about the policies half so much as about the Chicago-style politics. Don't tell me this was the "change" America was looking for.
It's Gresham's Law in action: Bad money drives out the good (or in this case, bad components). If no one can tell the difference, then people will substitute inferior products, and pocket the extra money (or use it to expand at the expense of those suppliers with superior products who can't make the same margins).
I wouldn't say it's "how the free market is supposed to work" as that implies something positive and normative to be pursued; it's just an aspect of the free market (and many less-than-free markets which might seek to replace them, cf. nail quotas in Soviet Russia) that ultimately must be addressed by fixing the information imbalances.
You have a point that really rich people like doing things that get them money, and not necessarily helping everyone else out.
It's true. They shouldn't be given free handouts. I agree.
At the same time, though, a lot of the time people extend that anti-rich-people attitude, and think of anything that isn't actively soaking the rich for every penny possible as "welfare". Do consider: Rich people who want more money invest it. They can afford to take risks and spend a lot of money on something that might not work out (but if it did, it would be immensely valuable - to them and to the nation). But when you tax their returns, then there's quite a bit of money that they're not-going-to-make, and they're not going to invest in new businesses and other risky enterprises. That represents a real drag on the economy (and also, for that matter, on your own 401(k), since they won't be as interested in buying the same stocks you're holding - instead, they'll more likely hold gold, or government bonds, or something. Cheaper financing for the government's debt is not entirely useless, but it's hardly the road to prosperity for the US as a nation.)
You and I on Slashdot are probably rich enough that we're insulated from the worst of this.
If you need some really hardcore I/O performance, it could easily be worth it. My company tried putting some SSDs in the 1U servers that we load with our software and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars to big enterprise customers. Those guys could cook.
Sure, we could spend a few million on engineers and hope to wring out a fraction of the performance improvement, but we could also spend that few million making our software more useful to our customers in other ways.
Actually, I'm not on crack. The Slashdot moderate-the-moment-you-change-the-dropdown-box UI, however, might be. imma go poke preferences and see if that can be turned off....
You probably just filled in the default value for that box on your taxes ("use this table to estimate your out-of-state purchases if you haven't kept records"). If you went out of your way to set it to 0, then you'd have heard of the tax.
If you have enough space for a spare rack, and you have a sufficiently virtualized infrastructure, you could just swap in the spare and do rack-at-a-time maintenance. If you're really saving 93% on cooling that could be worth it. (Maybe leave your SAN boxes and other less-failable components on an old air-cooled setup.)
Yeah, if it's multiple incarnations + on Earth + up to now, it's generally heretical. The official stance is more or less that Jesus was Jesus (but other people weren't). I'm sure one can see how "Jesus in space 50 billion light-years away" is clearly a substantially different matter than here-on-Earth, and may be worthy of an independent position.
There is also one possible quasi-exception to the earthly-incarnation bit. There's a small bit of thought regarding the Israelites in the desert with Moses and a big old rock. If you'll recall, there was some bit of confusion between Exodus and Numbers and God got really upset at the way Moses handled striking the rock multiple times, versus talking to it, in order to get the water to flow out of it. Some think that this was to be part of salvation history and that Jesus was present in the rock (good for your "rock of ages" analogies, there's the water-from-its-side bit, possibly a more gradual introduction of the guy than the human incarnation would have been at that point, seems appropriate for a chosen people he's leading from the desert, pairs well with the manna from heaven) and that this explains God's subsequent reaction ("okay, Moses, inadequate faith, no Promised Land for youuuu. you'll have to miss out.")
Question. If you needed more than the free annual credit report from annualcreditreport.com (say, more frequent looks, or perhaps the numeric scores) who would you go to?
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But the "criminal charges" alluded to by the article would be ridiculous.
On the other hand, the Albanian economy was devastated by Ponzi schemes in the 1990s - investment vehicles which were contributed to largely by people who were aware something was afoot, but assumed they were buying into some sort black-market operations (not outright scams).
Sustainable meat? Sustainable materials? Venison! Deer leather! Now that we don't have wolves anymore (strangely, no one wants them nearby) and the critters are roaming the suburbs left and right...
I wonder what the implications will be for the Midwestern economy. I wonder how the population dynamics of domesticated animals will change. Will the world lose exotic breeds of farm animal, like the fancy tufted Polish chickens? Or will we preserve them, as 'real meat' becomes more of a gourmet/specialty market? What's "ethically" "better" for livestock and domesticated animals?
The one I always recall seeing was for some Sun sample Java code, for the "clock" applet. This code not to be used in blah blah blah or the design, construction, or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
Sure. For instance: Burlington Northern / Santa Fe. (And fancy that! They're being bought out by someone who's able to appreciate companies who are in it for the long haul.)
Have you seen any sites where you can log in with your Facebook account yet? That's federated identity management, Kyle! Whatever else, they're not just resting on their laurels over there.
(Personally, I'm not going to buy any Facebook. One of my mutual funds will probably pick up a few shares indirectly; whatever...)
Twitter has a bit of a shot but I think it's a little too much of a one-trick-wonder. If there's one social-media-networking thingy today that's got serious money potential, I'd say Facebook is it.
So (quit the 401(k) and roll it over into an IRA and) take responsibility for your own savings. Heck, short-sell if you want. Just remember that the market can remain irrational longer than you can necessarily remain solvent.
Now hurry up and mod me Troll again, you partisan hacks.
I don't care about the policies half so much as about the Chicago-style politics. Don't tell me this was the "change" America was looking for.
(*shudder*)
I wouldn't say it's "how the free market is supposed to work" as that implies something positive and normative to be pursued; it's just an aspect of the free market (and many less-than-free markets which might seek to replace them, cf. nail quotas in Soviet Russia) that ultimately must be addressed by fixing the information imbalances.
I don't read any comic books and thought the same thing.
At the same time, though, a lot of the time people extend that anti-rich-people attitude, and think of anything that isn't actively soaking the rich for every penny possible as "welfare". Do consider: Rich people who want more money invest it. They can afford to take risks and spend a lot of money on something that might not work out (but if it did, it would be immensely valuable - to them and to the nation). But when you tax their returns, then there's quite a bit of money that they're not-going-to-make, and they're not going to invest in new businesses and other risky enterprises. That represents a real drag on the economy (and also, for that matter, on your own 401(k), since they won't be as interested in buying the same stocks you're holding - instead, they'll more likely hold gold, or government bonds, or something. Cheaper financing for the government's debt is not entirely useless, but it's hardly the road to prosperity for the US as a nation.)
You and I on Slashdot are probably rich enough that we're insulated from the worst of this.
Sure, we could spend a few million on engineers and hope to wring out a fraction of the performance improvement, but we could also spend that few million making our software more useful to our customers in other ways.
Oh, don't worry, a good ambulance-chaser will surely be in touch after this.
Actually, I'm not on crack. The Slashdot moderate-the-moment-you-change-the-dropdown-box UI, however, might be. imma go poke preferences and see if that can be turned off....
You probably just filled in the default value for that box on your taxes ("use this table to estimate your out-of-state purchases if you haven't kept records"). If you went out of your way to set it to 0, then you'd have heard of the tax.
If you have enough space for a spare rack, and you have a sufficiently virtualized infrastructure, you could just swap in the spare and do rack-at-a-time maintenance. If you're really saving 93% on cooling that could be worth it. (Maybe leave your SAN boxes and other less-failable components on an old air-cooled setup.)
Yeah, if it's multiple incarnations + on Earth + up to now, it's generally heretical. The official stance is more or less that Jesus was Jesus (but other people weren't). I'm sure one can see how "Jesus in space 50 billion light-years away" is clearly a substantially different matter than here-on-Earth, and may be worthy of an independent position.
There is also one possible quasi-exception to the earthly-incarnation bit. There's a small bit of thought regarding the Israelites in the desert with Moses and a big old rock. If you'll recall, there was some bit of confusion between Exodus and Numbers and God got really upset at the way Moses handled striking the rock multiple times, versus talking to it, in order to get the water to flow out of it. Some think that this was to be part of salvation history and that Jesus was present in the rock (good for your "rock of ages" analogies, there's the water-from-its-side bit, possibly a more gradual introduction of the guy than the human incarnation would have been at that point, seems appropriate for a chosen people he's leading from the desert, pairs well with the manna from heaven) and that this explains God's subsequent reaction ("okay, Moses, inadequate faith, no Promised Land for youuuu. you'll have to miss out.")
Question. If you needed more than the free annual credit report from annualcreditreport.com (say, more frequent looks, or perhaps the numeric scores) who would you go to?
Idunno. What kind of a sociopath divides the entire world into the "clueless", the "losers", and the "sociopaths"?
(Why did they name it Go? According to the FAQ, they thought "Go Ogle" would be a great name for the debugger. "Goo Ogle" would be just as gooooood.)