You only lose money in the stock market if you sell. Until then it's just a loss on paper. The best thing to do in a down market is to hold on to your existing shares (assuming you aren't completely strapped for cash) and/or buy more shares (hey, the price is low).
The only time that doesn't work is if you own shares in a company that may not exist much longer. In which case you can sell and take a loss, or if they go under, you lose 100% of your money invested.
.somestyle a {
formatting
}
that will only apply the formatting to "a" if it's in a container with the class of "somestyle" is that what you were looking for?
When you get a physical advert in the mail, the cost to you is nothing (except maybe the effort of lifting that piece of paper to the trash can).
While e-mail spam costs the sender virtually nothing while the user pays for it in the form of higher ISP charges. Spam constitutes a large portion of internet traffic, traffics costs ISPs money, when ISPs have higher expenses they pass it on to the consumer.
Not to mention that most ISPs also actively work against spam, I remember reading somewhere that Earthlink spends around 7 digits a month fighting spam.
My brother probably represents the average 15 year old, unlike me he isn't a/. reading nerd. His friends all trade CDs and the quality on them is terrible, it gets worse everytime one of them decideds to make another CD, because they all use Windows Media Player.
They have no idea that each time they rip the CD it loses audio quality, they just keep doing it. Someone gets a CD and likes one of the tracks, so he rips it and makes his own mix CD, then he gives it to a friend, who might like some of the tracks, so he rips it and makes his own mix CD. I've listened to songs that are on 2nd generation CDs and they suck, the ones on the 5+ CDs actually hurt!
Good thinking, now they won't try to take over our nice cushy jobs.
On a more serrious note, I don't see why the job is rated so low. I'm the IT manager for a small-medium business, with 4 stores around the Dallas area and a n office in Richardson. I don't even have to show up to my job unless there's a problem, and I get paid a weekly retainer no matter what. Then when there is a problem they pay me $15/hour to fix it, and most of the time I can do it using PC-Anywhere.
Before anyone points out that $15/hour is crap, please take into account that I'm a senior in high school. So compared to everyone else in my age group it's like winning the lottery.
Not to mention that the cost of living in Texas is FAR cheaper. My family visited DC this summer, while we were there I noticed that the prices for just about everything were higher, movies tickets, food (with the exception of certain national brands/stores), housing, etc.
A friend I have up their has an appartment (I forgot exactly how much it costs per month) but if he were to pay the same amount for one in Texas he could get an appartment that was easily 2 times the size. That's in downtown Dallas too, where a large percentage of international companies base their headquarters.
No it's America Jr. You obviously aren't watch the slashdot minimum required hours of The Simpsons.
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I agree with you, and to help I have an example of how strong IP laws actually help the little guy.
Lets say you are in your appartment one day and you come up with an idea for an invention that's the greatest thing since sliced bread. So you put your own money into it and your own time and finally you have a prototype. You find someone willing to manufacture it at a decent price so you begin making and selling your device. A large company thinks your idea is great and becomes very interested in it.
At this point two things can happen:
1) strong IP laws allow you to either sell (lease, whatever) the idea to them or you can continue making the device on your own
2) with weak or no IP laws, that idea isn't yours anymore it could be effectivly public domain, so the company starts mass-producing their own version, quickly putting out in one day what it took you a month to produce. They sell their version for less and suddenly you have no market.
That's not the greatest example but you should be able to see where I am going with it. Strong IP laws don't help just the big guys, they can help protect the small guys.
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"I have fios and I have gone to my own software router running in a VM."
I don't even know where to start with this...
You only lose money in the stock market if you sell. Until then it's just a loss on paper. The best thing to do in a down market is to hold on to your existing shares (assuming you aren't completely strapped for cash) and/or buy more shares (hey, the price is low).
The only time that doesn't work is if you own shares in a company that may not exist much longer. In which case you can sell and take a loss, or if they go under, you lose 100% of your money invested.
Oh, forgot to mention that the above should work for multiple levels.
.somestyle td a { formatting }
That would only apply the formating to "a" if it's between TD tags, and somewhere in a container with the class of "somestyle."
.somestyle a { formatting } that will only apply the formatting to "a" if it's in a container with the class of "somestyle" is that what you were looking for?
I just logged out to test it, the AC is correct. The newest article shown is one from a bit before noon today.
Now that I'm logged back in, it works fine.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
---Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
No offense, but I feel sorry for any woman you date.
Ya, down here in Texas it's like 60F outside. When will the madness end?! :-P
*sigh*
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No one can take a joke anymore on
Because we all know that IGN isn't biased for the PSP [/fanboi]
I meant it as a joke, please laugh.
Moore's law states that the number of transistors will double roughly every 18 months.
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Haha, Poopli. I couldn't help but laugh.
I feel really immature.
The answer is simple, cost.
When you get a physical advert in the mail, the cost to you is nothing (except maybe the effort of lifting that piece of paper to the trash can).
While e-mail spam costs the sender virtually nothing while the user pays for it in the form of higher ISP charges. Spam constitutes a large portion of internet traffic, traffics costs ISPs money, when ISPs have higher expenses they pass it on to the consumer.
Not to mention that most ISPs also actively work against spam, I remember reading somewhere that Earthlink spends around 7 digits a month fighting spam.
My favorite fack zip code is 12345. It's actually a zip code, somewhere in the northeast.
"They also better educated..." If only I could get +5 self-restraint for not making fun of you...
"Not only are the trains running on time, but now they're running on metric time!"
No wait, it all makes sense now... the scrawy figure, world domination... Bill Gates IS The Mule!
My brother probably represents the average 15 year old, unlike me he isn't a /. reading nerd. His friends all trade CDs and the quality on them is terrible, it gets worse everytime one of them decideds to make another CD, because they all use Windows Media Player.
They have no idea that each time they rip the CD it loses audio quality, they just keep doing it. Someone gets a CD and likes one of the tracks, so he rips it and makes his own mix CD, then he gives it to a friend, who might like some of the tracks, so he rips it and makes his own mix CD. I've listened to songs that are on 2nd generation CDs and they suck, the ones on the 5+ CDs actually hurt!
Good thinking, now they won't try to take over our nice cushy jobs.
On a more serrious note, I don't see why the job is rated so low. I'm the IT manager for a small-medium business, with 4 stores around the Dallas area and a n office in Richardson. I don't even have to show up to my job unless there's a problem, and I get paid a weekly retainer no matter what. Then when there is a problem they pay me $15/hour to fix it, and most of the time I can do it using PC-Anywhere.
Before anyone points out that $15/hour is crap, please take into account that I'm a senior in high school. So compared to everyone else in my age group it's like winning the lottery.
Damn you, not wingding 3!!!
Not to mention that the cost of living in Texas is FAR cheaper. My family visited DC this summer, while we were there I noticed that the prices for just about everything were higher, movies tickets, food (with the exception of certain national brands/stores), housing, etc.
A friend I have up their has an appartment (I forgot exactly how much it costs per month) but if he were to pay the same amount for one in Texas he could get an appartment that was easily 2 times the size. That's in downtown Dallas too, where a large percentage of international companies base their headquarters.
Now if only we could figure out a bounty system to kill off those spyware and adware guys....
No it's America Jr. You obviously aren't watch the slashdot minimum required hours of The Simpsons.
I agree with you, and to help I have an example of how strong IP laws actually help the little guy.
Lets say you are in your appartment one day and you come up with an idea for an invention that's the greatest thing since sliced bread. So you put your own money into it and your own time and finally you have a prototype. You find someone willing to manufacture it at a decent price so you begin making and selling your device. A large company thinks your idea is great and becomes very interested in it.
At this point two things can happen:
1) strong IP laws allow you to either sell (lease, whatever) the idea to them or you can continue making the device on your own
2) with weak or no IP laws, that idea isn't yours anymore it could be effectivly public domain, so the company starts mass-producing their own version, quickly putting out in one day what it took you a month to produce. They sell their version for less and suddenly you have no market.
That's not the greatest example but you should be able to see where I am going with it. Strong IP laws don't help just the big guys, they can help protect the small guys.
Nothing quite like an anecdote from Stephen Hawking.