If Indian sales generate $5 million then it lowers the amount they need to charge in America to make a profit by $5 million
Nope. You never lower your profit. It's somewhat complex, but what will the market bear in each country so I can line my pockets. um my investors pockets.....
here's an easier one...
You have a wheelbarrow full of mulch and "Jackass" comes by in his shopping cart and dumps the load. You now have to pick up everything and continue. Till he does it again. It really slows down work.
So you talked to the IT department and asked them about their disaster recovery plan ?
No ?
The last time I participated in the DR at a hospital, the last set of "tapes" was flown down to the DR center and the system was recovered in... shoot... an hour ? including travel time.
This won't support 100% of the users because the links were lower bandwidth than the local data center but definitely wouldn't shutdown the hospital.
and don't forget the ultimate DR plan - PAPER. You still can get critical care because it's on paper.
This was the mainframe era of the hospital (IBM knows DR) now with the Windows stuff it should work the same but I wouldn't count on it. Lots more machines.
you guys must have a low disgust threshold. Goatse doesn't bother me. Two girls one cup - meh. tubgirl. Hang out on any accident site and see human guts all over and you get used to the messy stuff.
Heck, most of you must be scared of public hair since most of the girls are shaved.
mmmm hairy italian girls.
Redheads & gingers - don't shave that muff - Rejoice! Live the magic at Muffyland.
start with
http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/ the "ADVO" entry is wrong as they were bought out last year ? by valassis (which is another HUGE mailer) the link will still get you to the right place. Call the 1-800 number and ask to be put on the "do not deliver" list. This will stop most of the coupon/mass mailings. It will not stop the individual advertisers (geico) as they have their own list.
Most senders are professional companies which will handle your request politely. "ADVO Mailbox Values" and
"Harte Hanks Potpourri" are the most common of these mailers. Your local supermarket's monthly coupon books may be handled by these companies, so be sure to specify if you want to continue to receive those. Your letter carrier is accustomed to giving each house a bundle, so you may also need to inform him or her of your action separately. The post office is prohibited by law from delivering unaddressed mail, so you should have little trouble convincing the carrier.
The sentence on "post office prohibited by law" is incorrect. The post office will deliver mail to "resident" or to "john doe or current resident" and the mailers know this. They also know your address and it would be stupid of the mailers to actually produce a piece with no address. There is also NCOA rules that came into effect this year which requires mailers to validate the addresses through a couple of means. i.e. it's going to get to you.
I find the credit card crap the most offensive and I don't know who maintains that list.
Especially since some asshole has the patent on converting plastic waste to oil and some other asshole probably has a patent to use waste oil to process other plastic products.
I believe Heinlein covered this in "A Door Into Summer". Time travel story. The protagonist ends up in suspended animation and when he wakes he's assigned a job crushing new automobiles that just came off the assembly line. He makes some comment about efficiencies and his boss says "what do you want to do ? ruin the economy?"
I'm going to assume such a program will end up like the emissions program.
It started out ok. Show up at the emissions place, wait in line, stick a probe up the exhaust and you car either passes or fails based on those measurements.
oops guess what - corruption and general misbehavior and they have to change it.
Check engine light on - automatic failure. No time off for good behavior.
Not testing actual emissions but a stupid light.
My car may pass under the old way but now I'm on the hook immediately (for ONE of the O2 sensors, may be both) for up to $400-$600 to fix it.
You may not disclose the results of any benchmark tests of the software to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval.
What the author did was within the bounds of the EULA since he didn't disclose the results (the numbers).
What really frustrates me though is that you would suggest that the author is LYING. What gives you the right to make such accusations? Are you working on some kind of historical precedent? Do you know the author personally? Has he lied before? Or are you just being a douche? I can completely understand if you want to see the raw data, so do I.
You do know that the purpose of Advertising and Marketing is to make the customer buy the product and that usually many claims are made that the product is the best, therefore in order to judge the claim properly numbers must be published for independent verification.
The author may not be intentionally lying but genuinely believe what they're reporting.
Everyone should question especially since you may have missed the Bush Administration's Advertising.
And Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall, and they have been trying damn hard with IE 7 and now IE 8, but it's quite clear that the great minds who brought us IE 4 and 5 (yeah they were great at the time) died in a car crash or something, or they got dulled and their enthusiasm waxed, because it definitely isn't the same people making the turds of IE 7 and 8.
Nope. The techies at MS are pretty damn smart. It's the business people who direct them that are dinosaur brains. Instead of cutting loose the baggage they keep it on and forcing the new stuff to implement old hacks for compatibility reasons.
Now this is a double edge sword. On one hand, everything just works and on the other complaints on how the new program busted all sorts of stuff.
MS, we don't care. Damn'd if you do and damn'd if you don't. MS bottom line comes first.
And why are convicted criminals unemployable ? It's a sad thing when someone who did time and supposedly are going to be law abiding and they can't get a job. what's left ?
I think you got the jiggle rates reversed. Allowing for shivering, the cold jiggle rate should be lower as the skin is contracted by the muscles and heavier clothing, thus firming and acting as dampeners.
So given that the mass and stiffness stay the same, figure out the damping effect by using a padded bra.
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If Indian sales generate $5 million then it lowers the amount they need to charge in America to make a profit by $5 million
Nope. You never lower your profit. It's somewhat complex, but what will the market bear in each country so I can line my pockets. um my investors pockets.....
here's an easier one ...
You have a wheelbarrow full of mulch and "Jackass" comes by in his shopping cart and dumps the load. You now have to pick up everything and continue. Till he does it again. It really slows down work.
Hey, I'm an acidic gooey center with a hard alkaline shell...
melts in your hands, burns all the way down.
Nope - management was upset that the workers didn't buy into the mandatory "be happy" day with its meetings on being successful and future growth.
So you talked to the IT department and asked them about their disaster recovery plan ?
... shoot ... an hour ? including travel time.
No ?
The last time I participated in the DR at a hospital, the last set of "tapes" was flown down to the DR center and the system was recovered in
This won't support 100% of the users because the links were lower bandwidth than the local data center but definitely wouldn't shutdown the hospital.
and don't forget the ultimate DR plan - PAPER. You still can get critical care because it's on paper.
This was the mainframe era of the hospital (IBM knows DR) now with the Windows stuff it should work the same but I wouldn't count on it. Lots more machines.
you guys must have a low disgust threshold. Goatse doesn't bother me. Two girls one cup - meh. tubgirl. Hang out on any accident site and see human guts all over and you get used to the messy stuff.
Heck, most of you must be scared of public hair since most of the girls are shaved.
mmmm hairy italian girls.
Redheads & gingers - don't shave that muff - Rejoice! Live the magic at Muffyland.
i wonder what dickhead would go for ?
.di.di.dickhead
yoursandmine.wereall.dickhead
Most senders are professional companies which will handle your request politely. "ADVO Mailbox Values" and
"Harte Hanks Potpourri" are the most common of these mailers. Your local supermarket's monthly coupon books may be handled by these companies, so be sure to specify if you want to continue to receive those. Your letter carrier is accustomed to giving each house a bundle, so you may also need to inform him or her of your action separately. The post office is prohibited by law from delivering unaddressed mail, so you should have little trouble convincing the carrier.
The sentence on "post office prohibited by law" is incorrect. The post office will deliver mail to "resident" or to "john doe or current resident" and the mailers know this. They also know your address and it would be stupid of the mailers to actually produce a piece with no address. There is also NCOA rules that came into effect this year which requires mailers to validate the addresses through a couple of means. i.e. it's going to get to you.
I find the credit card crap the most offensive and I don't know who maintains that list.
Yep. And as things de-leverage more, the banks need more capital on hand to keep the balance sheets happy - ergo no lending. What's really screwy is that profitable auto dealerships are being denied loans with no reviews at all http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_madison_auto_bank_issue_200903192331_rev1
and what did they say when you called and complained ?
oh thats right you didn't
and when you contacted the company - What did they say ?
What ? you didn't.
you got what you asked for then.
Jeez, people - call, write or email - complain.
Don't forget businesses who don't want their bandwidth sucked up by such activities. No, someone does pay for bandwidth, so it isn't "free".
WTF is wrong with those people. A home is a home. PeTArds. Geez.
Especially since some asshole has the patent on converting plastic waste to oil and some other asshole probably has a patent to use waste oil to process other plastic products.
No profit in it man.
Obviously, you've never run a business
Vendor Locking is Great! for the bottom line.
Ask yourself, how can I configure something that only allows my products ?
Also, How can I support my stuff from way back ?
And you'll end up where Microsoft is today.
Hey, look ...
Blowing smoke up my ass and Sunshine O'Rectum are updating.
Ding. One clue please.
Two bits.
Please install clue, Hal.
I'm sorry, Dave. I can't allow that.
This computer is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect DRM and UAC, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could still hear you though your cellphone.
Fuuurrfuuuu
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
It's our content Dave and we know what's best for you.
I believe Heinlein covered this in "A Door Into Summer". Time travel story. The protagonist ends up in suspended animation and when he wakes he's assigned a job crushing new automobiles that just came off the assembly line. He makes some comment about efficiencies and his boss says "what do you want to do ? ruin the economy?"
I'm going to assume such a program will end up like the emissions program.
It started out ok. Show up at the emissions place, wait in line, stick a probe up the exhaust and you car either passes or fails based on those measurements.
oops guess what - corruption and general misbehavior and they have to change it.
Check engine light on - automatic failure. No time off for good behavior.
Not testing actual emissions but a stupid light.
My car may pass under the old way but now I'm on the hook immediately (for ONE of the O2 sensors, may be both) for up to $400-$600 to fix it.
Bite my shiny tin foiled ass.
You may not disclose the results of any benchmark tests of the software to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval. What the author did was within the bounds of the EULA since he didn't disclose the results (the numbers). What really frustrates me though is that you would suggest that the author is LYING. What gives you the right to make such accusations? Are you working on some kind of historical precedent? Do you know the author personally? Has he lied before? Or are you just being a douche? I can completely understand if you want to see the raw data, so do I.
You do know that the purpose of Advertising and Marketing is to make the customer buy the product and that usually many claims are made that the product is the best, therefore in order to judge the claim properly numbers must be published for independent verification.
The author may not be intentionally lying but genuinely believe what they're reporting.
Everyone should question especially since you may have missed the Bush Administration's Advertising.
Nope - keep the answers to "why" and "because" in the code. your maintenance guys will thank you for it.
the crap comments are the ones you don't want.
And Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall, and they have been trying damn hard with IE 7 and now IE 8, but it's quite clear that the great minds who brought us IE 4 and 5 (yeah they were great at the time) died in a car crash or something, or they got dulled and their enthusiasm waxed, because it definitely isn't the same people making the turds of IE 7 and 8.
Nope. The techies at MS are pretty damn smart. It's the business people who direct them that are dinosaur brains. Instead of cutting loose the baggage they keep it on and forcing the new stuff to implement old hacks for compatibility reasons.
Now this is a double edge sword. On one hand, everything just works and on the other complaints on how the new program busted all sorts of stuff.
MS, we don't care. Damn'd if you do and damn'd if you don't. MS bottom line comes first.
copying from network to \program files is a no-no as long as UAC is enabled. I'm a developer so I
should know that my build is broken and doing this is a no-no.
And why are convicted criminals unemployable ? It's a sad thing when someone who did time and supposedly are going to be law abiding and they can't get a job. what's left ?
I think you got the jiggle rates reversed. Allowing for shivering, the cold jiggle rate should be lower as the skin is contracted by the muscles and heavier clothing, thus firming and acting as dampeners. So given that the mass and stiffness stay the same, figure out the damping effect by using a padded bra.